Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel

(June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. . 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. 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. 13). A Simon & Schuster hardcover (Reviews, Apr. While the l

A Thriller And An Interesting Look Into The World Of The Internet, Blogging and Online Gaming A. Morgan Jeffery Deaver (as I understand it) is a well know author and has many successful novels. Roadside Crosses, on one level is a good crime thriller. A series of attempted murders are linked to crosses which are left on the roadside. Unlike memorial crosses which indicate an anniversary of a road death, these roadside crosses have the current date on them - indicating that a killing will happen.The agent in-. Antigone Walsh said Put Up a cross for this one. Roadside crosses are harbingers of death and disaster in this latest Kathryn Dance novel. Dance, a kinesics expert and agent with the California Bureau of Investigation,is drawn into the blogosphere in the hunt for a killer. Is it the victim of cyber bullying or evil corporate meanies behind the mischief? If you are able to slog through the incredibly boring first half of this book you will find out.I was. Winnie the Pooh said Easy, light, read with good characters.. Really enjoying the Katherine Dance novels, story line in parts is a little weak, however they are good light novels, easy to read and I really like the on going thread running through them with Katherine and Michael from the very first one I thought that he and is wife would split up. Although I am now on to XO and she is having a relationship with the computer geek she met in roadside crosses. Oh well n

The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigations foremost body language expert. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in multiplayer online role-playing games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims. It is also a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. 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. 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. 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. Roadside Crosses is the third in Deaver’s bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with The Blue Nowhere and The Broken Window.. She and