| Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel |  | Author: Jeffery Deaver
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 5,314
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1 Reprint
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Publication Date: May 22, 2009
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Product Description
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... In signature Jeffery Deaver style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. Roadside Crosses is the third in Deaver's bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with The Blue Nowhere and The Broken Window.
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 Boring & Uninteresting August 11, 2010
K. Thalheimer (Long Island, NY)
This could have been a very good murder mystery. It has all the makings of it until the author just kills it with a great deal of Techie computer talk, blogging info, & endless repetitive dialogue.
Who cares about all the blogging info? I'm here to read what I thought was a mystery. Mr. Deaver seems to want to lengthen his book with endless dialogue which essentially says the same things.
Not one of his better books by any stretch of the imagination. I found myself scanning through the book & not caring what happened in the end.
A boring chore to get through. Just pass on this one. It doesn't come close to a Lincoln Rhyme novel in quality.
 Like New August 9, 2010
Wja51 (Santa Rosa, CA)
Book received within 7-8 days and it was in excellent condition - like new. Very happy with service and product
Roadside Crosses August 6, 2010
grumpydan (Andover, NJ United States)
A killer leaves roadside crosses to warn of a murder he will commit that day. As the CBI tries to track down a teenage boy whom they believe is the killer, their trail leads to the world of blogging and gaming.
Although, there are twists and turns, as the lead detective searches for the killer I found the whole gaming and blogging tale fairly unappealing. Not one of Deaver's best.
Roadside Crosses: Techno Savvy August 3, 2010
Joan Reeves (TX USA)
I've been traveling quite a bit lately so I've been reading a lot.
Actually, I've been reading more than ever since I bought a Kindle because I keep it in my purse so I can always whip it out and read from any of the books I've downloaded. I'm going broke populating my Kindle with books. However, Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver was a hard copy book, not a Kindle edition. Just let me say that I've been a fan of Mr. Deaver's books since The Blue Nowhere, still one of my favorite books.
Mr. Deaver is a former journalist and lawyer. His bio says he's also a former folk singer. (Was there anyone who was a teen in the 60s who didn't fancy a career as the next Peter, Paul, or Mary?). His books have hit the best seller lists around the world, and he's a perennially nominated author and winner of the awards that honor his type of books.
Again, Mr. Deaver explores our emerging technological environment that's changing the way we work and spend our leisure time. This book is all about the synthetic world that some perceive as more real than true reality. Most of you know about Second Life, now the Internet's largest user-created, 3D virtual world community. That's synthetic life.
You've all seen those Roadside Crosses that dot the landscape. Sometimes you probably wondered what happened at a shrine dotted with dead flowers and a weather-bedraggled teddy bear. In Mr. Deaver's latest book, an entry in the Kathryn Dance series, roadside crosses start appearing, and then a murder is committed at that site within the next few days. How creepy is that?
Heroine Kathryn Dance of the California Bureau of Investigation, an organization most of America is now familiar with thanks to TVs The Mentalist, finds herself wading into the world of social networking and blogs to find the truth. I don't want to spoil the read if you haven't picked up this gripping tale yet. Suffice it to say that you'll find yourself nodding in agreement as Dance discovers how addictive and invasive technology has become.
One thing I like is that Mr. Deaver writes good women characters who are strong and smart. None of the running women who twist an ankle and fall so the villain can capture, torment, and kill. Intelligent, in other words, like the women I know. Be warned. This is one of those that will make you stay awake turning pages. By the way, the websites mentioned in the book are real if you want to take the book to your PC and click away.
You won't be disappointed by this techno-savvy thriller, and you may well be surprised by the final twist.
 Pedestrian. Dull. Boring July 28, 2010
Londonman
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not sure quite how I came to buy this book. I think that possibly I might have read one of his others. Whatever. The authors' name stuck in my mind and so when I was out browsing I came across this book and, boy, do I wish I hadn't. I read about 75 pages before I came to the conclusion that life is too short to waste my time reading this pedestrian and utterly boring rubbish.
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