Kathryn Dance is tied up with an investigation of roadside crosses that a killer is putting out with dates in the future. The deaths seem to be tied to a blog. It all starts with a fairly innocuous post about an accident that killed two teenagers. The young man driving soon becomes the victim of cyberbullying and it seems he has run away from home and has begun killing anyone who has said ugly things about him on the blog. Kathryn is in totally unfamiliar territory as she tries to learn about the world of games that sometimes seem more real to its participants than the real world. At the same time, Kathryn's mother has been accused of a mercy killing at the hospital and is facing angry mobs and murder charges.
Jeffrey Deaver is one of my favorite authors and once again, he does not disappoint. I thought this book started out a little slow but as I got more caught up in it, I found it to be very intriguing. Kathryn Dance is a very likeable character. Her relationship with her partner, O'Neil, continues to hint at a possible romance but he remains married. The new character, a professor who helps with the computer aspects of this case, introduced in this book seems like a possible love interest, too. Some of the computer stuff is too far out of my reality but overall, I enjoyed the book.
Rating - 4.5 stars
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