{"product_id":"2940170805310","title":"Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel (Abridged)","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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... \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In signature Jeffery Deaver style, \u003ci\u003eRoadside Crosses\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eRoadside Crosses\u003c\/i\u003e is the third in Deaver's bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Broken Window\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161948209392,"sku":"2940170805310","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170805310_p0.jpg?v=1763718158","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170805310","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}