• Roadside Crosses

  • A Kathryn Dance Novel
  • By: Jeffery Deaver
  • Narrated by: Michele Pawk
  • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (629 ratings)

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Roadside Crosses

By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Michele Pawk
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Publisher's summary

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 best-selling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with The Blue Nowhere and The Broken Window.

Please note: Part three of this audiobook consists of The Blue Nowhere.

©2009 Jeffrey Deaver (P)2009 Simon & Schuster

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    3 out of 5 stars

Okay....but not 20 hours and not Deaver's best

I enjoyed the fact that Deaver wrote a novel specifically for Katherine Dance, but warning those of you who chose books for length and author, this book is about 12 hours long with an abridged copy of "The Blue Nowhere" tacked onto the end as "part 3".
Don't get me wrong, "The Blue Nowehere" was a good book and it shows a progression in computers but a.) I hate abridged books and b.) When I am going on a trip I sometimes choose a book from my wishlist based as much on length as on topic or author. Shame on you audible for at least not warning me.

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  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Teenage detective story

I don't need to add much to what other reviewers have stated that are so obviously true.. Bad writing and the narration is even worse... this book should be in the Kids section. I felt like it was written for teenagers.

Its a waste... Guess I should have read the reviews earlier

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  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Big Disappointment

There are three things wrong with this book: 1. the writing 2. the narration and 3. the packaging.

- The writing is disorganized. The story is too light on action and too heavy on needless detail. The dialog is childish. The "solution" to the mystery makes no sense.
- The narration is comical. The male voices sound stupid and both male and female teenagers talk like valley girls from the 80s.
- Finding out Part 3 of the book is actually another book I've already read was extremely annoying. I want a refund.

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  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars

Roadside Crosses

I love Jeffery Deaver but I chose this book in part because it was 20 hours long and thought I had paid for a 20 hour book. You can imagine my disappointment when I found that Part 3 was a part of a book I had already bought. I am very dissappointed with Audible for the deception.

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  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars

Deceptive!

I was really unhappy with this book. Not because of the storyline or the narration- but because like the other reviewer's, I didn't get what I was expecting. When I ordered it I thought "great"- A good, long unabridged book from one of my favorite authors. Toward the end of the 2nd part I was thinking, they are about to wrap up this mystery, what more could they possibly put in the 3rd part? Another book of course!! One I had already read and didn't care to listen to in the abridged version. I think Audible should refund a credit to all who were duped by not getting a full disclosure about this.

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  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Very deceptive

No where in the review of this book did I see a disclaimer that I was buying a 20 hour long book that was made up of 6 hours of a book I had already read. I am very disappointed in Audible for this reason I am thinking of getting my audio books elsewhere

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    3 out of 5 stars

Katherine Dance is a Great Series

I bought this because I enjoyed The Sleeping Doll so much. The characters are great and I love how Deaver writes Dance as an investigator. Like most every Deaver novel, there are really surprising twists that either keep you in suspense or eager to understand what has transpired.

Michelle Pawk does a great job with all the characters. She gets a well earned 5 star rating for me.

I give the story 3 stars because I found the subject matter, (blogging and cyber bullying), a bit trite and boring. Deaver more than compensates for this with his talented character development and storytelling.

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    5 out of 5 stars

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."

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  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Politically Left Leaning

This is the first Jeffrey Deaver book that I have read so please take this review with a grain of salt. I stopped listening to the book about halfway through the second chapter. If you are not political, or if you are not a conservative thinker then you may enjoy the book. As I listened to the first part of the book and listened to the main characters opinion of people who have similar views to my own it was more difficult for me to listen and root for the main character. This very well could be a good book. But I just don't tend to enjoy fiction as much when the villians are painted as conservatives...because I am one. Perhaps it does not have as political of a theme as it appeared to in the first two chapters and perhaps not all of his books have this theme...but when I read fiction I want to like the heros. I probably won't spend money on another one of his books unless I know ahead of time that he doesn't make a practice of making conservatives villians.

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  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars

Not as good as usual

This is my least favorite Dance novel. Like everyone else, I did not enjoy the constant explanation of computer terminology (does anyone in 2008-2009 need to have terms like "http" defined!?). He also put a lot of preaching about internet safety in the mouth of the professor. However, there were some good plot twists.

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