JEFFERY DEAVER - Roadside Crosses , in hardback , First Edition / Impression published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2009 .
The book is signed by the author - I met Jeffery at a book signing for the release of his latest book , Solitude Creek .
The second book in the Kathryn Dance series - by the author of A Maiden's Grave and The Vanished Man .
" 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 ... "
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