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Title details for Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver - Available

Roadside Crosses

#2 in series

by Jeffery Deaver
Michele Pawk
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From the author People magazine has hailed the New York Times bestselling author as "a master of ticking-bomb suspense," comes the third addition to the Kathryn Dance series, a chilling tale of a vigilante seeking revenge—in both the cyber world...and the real.
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways—not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.

The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics—body language-expert. She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report.

As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs—Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games—he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents, and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance's career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures...

With Jeffery Deaver's signature style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers, and heartrending personal subplots that take a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Kathryn Dance

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 18, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780743582162
      • File size: 412185 KB
      • Duration: 14:18:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 31, 2009
      Tony Award–winning actress Michele Pawk nicely captures the inner monologues of Deaver's protagonist Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's leading kinesics expert. Dance's remarkable sixth sense concerning the truthfulness of suspects and witnesses becomes a double-edged sword in her social interactions with co-workers and family members, and Pawk's portrayal of the widowed detective's angst on the fledgling romantic front rings especially true. Pawk's rendering of the dialogue proves to be her weak point: the voices of older teen boys, especially Travis Brigham, the young man at the center of the story, continually quiver into higher octaves more suitable to preadolescent males. While the listener never loses touch with the essence of Dance, others in her path come to life with varying degrees of success. A Simon & Schuster hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 13).

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Body language expert Kathryn Dance has transitioned from occasional appearances in Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme novels to lead character in her own series. This time, however, competing themes from the world of cyberspace cause the plot to cross that fine line between complex and cluttered. Although narrator Michele Pawk offers a clear and brisk performance, giving Detective Dance a believable voice and presence, she's not as successful with the rest of the characters. Many are difficult to identify by voice alone, leaving the listener to depend on attributive phrases from the text to identify the speaker. This is one of those rare occasions when the book is not enhanced by its audio presentation. M.O.B. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 13, 2009
      In bestseller Deaver's surprise-filled third Kathryn Dance novel (after The Sleeping Doll
      ), Dance, an agent with the California Bureau of Investigation, gets an eye-opening education in some of the hottest areas of the cyberworld. After an auto accident kills two teens, vicious smears of Travis Brigham, the teen driver deemed responsible but not charged in the accident, appear on the Chilton Report, a popular blog. After one of the accusing bloggers barely survives an assault, Brigham becomes a “person of interest.” Brigham disappears, and attacks, each preceded by a crude roadside cross, spread to other Chilton bloggers. Meanwhile, Dance also looks into a mercy killing at Monterey Bay Hospital that takes an unexpected turn, and Robert Harper, a special prosecutor from the attorney general's office in Sacramento, begins an investigation that will affect her. Deaver's expert and devious plotting makes it a challenge to stay only a couple of steps behind him.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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