Roadside Crosses

A Kathryn Dance Novel

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Michele Pawk

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 cybercrime thriller about 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.©2009 Jeffery Deaver; (P)2009 Simon & Schuster

Enjoyable

I'm glad I didn't read the other reviews here before I bought the book because I might have changed my mind about getting it. I really enjoyed the book. Although I can't say it was outstanding, it was entertaining. The extra book was a surprise though. I'm only an hour into it and I'm a bit bored. I don't care for the constant defining of every computer term that comes up. I'm glad to hear this one isn't up to Deaver's normal high standards. That makes me definitely want to go back and buy some of his previous novels.

Good, but not 20 hours!

Typical Deaver book--the writing isn't fantastic but the plot is fun and always leaves you guessing.

I was really disappointed, though, that the last six hours of the book was an abridged version of The Blue Nowhere (which I've already read).

Anyway, it's a fun listen, but ignore the third part of the download.

Loved the story

While I got exactly what I expected from the story itself, I, too, was disappointed that the "20" hours was really only about a third of that. Audible needs to put a very visible disclaimer on this listing. "The Blue Nowhere" was written ages ago and I already have that one. Glad I found out before I downloaded "Roadside Crosses Part 3" so I didn't waste my time... I still would have bought "Roadside Crosses" if the listing had said something like "Includes a bonus recording of "The Blue Nowhere", abridged, 6 hours."

frustrating

spent a large part of the book chasing a suspect no one had seen and there was no evidence against. he was never alleged or suspected...just the kid who DID it. guilty or not, it is bad form.
I'm disappointed in the Katherine Dance series, though I'll probably listen to them all anyway.

Well Done hey me guessing

Enjoyed it and also learned about the world if computer games / life and blogs.