Jeffery Deaver recently learned that a novelist’s life can be fraught with peril. To lend credibility to the fictional blog he created in Roadside Crosses, he roamed the shoreline near Monterey, Califo., taking pictures to accompany the posts. During a beach breakfast break he was “mercilessly attacked by a flock - gang is more accurate - of seagulls, who clearly had had a taste for Super-Seed bagels with cream cheese and wanted more. They are, by the way, very big birds.” Deaver just finished a 14-city tour (gull-free, we trust); Roadside imprint total: 210,000 copies.
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(Publisher’s Weekly, June 22)
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. (June)
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(Publisher’s Weekly, Apr 13)
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways . . . not as memorials of past accidents, but as an announcement of his intention to kill. And to kill in a particularly horrific and efficient way: using the personal details about the victims that they’ve carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking web sites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, an agent with the California Bureau of Investigation and the state’s foremost kinesics — body language — expert. ROADSIDE CROSSES will be released in the USA and Canada on June 9, and in the UK and Ireland on July 23.
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