The Forgotten by David Baldacci

This book features John Puller, an army CID warrant officer, who previously appeared in Zero Day.  In this book his aunt writes a letter to her brother, John's dad, claiming there are strange happenings at night and that people aren't who they seem to be in Paradise, her Florida town.  Puller goes to investigate, only to find his aunt has drowned in an apparent accident in her backyard.  While Puller investigates, the reader knows she was killed and is told of the human slavery ring that is behind her death.  Baldacci manages to keep your interest, in spite of the fact that there is no mystery for the reader.  He also manages to make it suspenseful in parts as well.  I really liked this book, but I am also a pretty big Baldacci fan.  He did have a few books where I felt he was mass-producing too much and the quality really suffered, but he seems to be coming back in his latest books, including this one.  I wouldn't say it's one of his very best, but it is a good, easy read that goes really quickly.  It's worth the time.