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Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel Audiobook
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From the author People magazine has hailed the New York Times bestselling author as “a master of ticking-bomb suspense,” comes the third addition to the Kathryn Dance series, a chilling tale of a vigilante seeking revenge—in both the cyber world…and the real.
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...
With Jeffery Deaver's signature style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers, and heartrending personal subplots that take a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world.
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"I love Jeffrey Deaver and this book does not disappoint. This book features Kathryn Dance who is one of my new favorite characters. The book is full of the usual Deaver plot twists. Two story lines run concurrently and the main one is fulfilled in a satsifactory way, while the other could have been a bit more suspenseful, but the reader will anjoy this book nonetheless."
— Babs (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Roadside Crosses is a gripping story peopled with memorable characters. No surprise. Jeffery Deaver is grand master of the ticking-clock thriller.”
— Kathy Reichs, #1 New York Times bestselling author -
“Deaver’s heroine’s complex private life gives an addictive soap-opera appeal to an engaging who-dunnit that revolves around the way in which social networking websites can end up spreading poison.”
— Times (London) -
“Clever and twisted. . . . Don’t miss this one.”
— Library Journal -
“Tightly constructed with a suspenseful story and plenty of plot twists…This is an excellent entry in what promises to be a series as popular as the author’s Lincoln Rhyme novels.”
— Booklist
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A New York Times bestseller
Roadside Crosses Listener Reviews
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" I am really not sure if Kathryn Dance novels are my favorite. I feel she is a little boring. Roadside Crosses is not a page turner, in fact I was not sure if I wanted to finish the book..but I did. I much prefer Lincoln Rhyme. "
— Lenore, 2/18/2014 -
" I love everything this man writes...so engrossing. "
— Tricia, 2/15/2014 -
" I usually like Jeffery Deaver books, but this one irritated me. It was way too preachy--the dangers of gaming and the internet--and when the real criminal was revealed at the end and Kathryn Dance was giving her narritive of how she figured it out--a lot of the "suspects" I didn't even realize were suspects. It seemed like the author just decided at the end of the book whodunit. Also, the duel story line about her mom, a nurse, being accused of a mercy killing, was poorly developed and the ending was wrapped up like a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie--sappy and predictable. "
— Debbie, 2/7/2014 -
" Great book, I could not put it down. "
— Susan, 1/30/2014 -
" Good as per usual. Totally did not see the ending coming. Love that. Another winner for Jeffrey Deaver. "
— Debra, 1/22/2014 -
" Really like Kathryn Dance, and seeing her again. "
— Johnna, 1/19/2014 -
" great read, insight into the cyber world "
— Thom, 1/13/2014 -
" This was the weakest of the Deaver novels that I have read. The story was alright, but it lacked the twist that I have always awaited in his books. "
— Pat, 11/26/2013 -
" Blog postings / cyberbullies / crosses predict deaths "
— Kathleen, 11/5/2013 -
" I am very glad that Mr. Deaver backed off his usual guts and gore routine in which women are relentlessly pursued and tortured to write a pretty darn good thriller that just clicks along. It's a fast read which is good when you're trying to polish off a book in a day. "
— RunRachelRun, 10/9/2013 -
" slow start, good lead character that I have not read any with her as the main detective "
— Dawn, 7/27/2013 -
" Got a bit tedious towards the end "
— Roseanne, 5/21/2013 -
" Katryn Dance is the main detective, though I always enjoy Jeffery' Lincoln, who is not so emotional as Katryn, so so from Deaver for this novetl, expected better. "
— Fan, 4/2/2013 -
" Loved it! Lots of unexpected turns! "
— Margaret, 3/7/2013 -
" great book. really enjoyed the twists and turns in it! "
— Christo, 12/13/2012 -
" I really like Jeffery Deaver's books. I like the characters and the mystery/suspense is quite well done. "
— Beverly, 11/30/2012 -
" Ending was too contrived for my taste. "
— Nancy, 6/7/2012 -
" A murder mystery with an interesting twist on blogging. Can the internet really do this????? Entertaining. "
— Trudy, 5/25/2012 -
" Too many twists in the plot. "
— Dawn, 4/15/2012 -
" Although I'm a Lincoln Rhyme fan, these Kathryn Dance novels are pretty good as well. This is the second one I've read, and in my book (ha), there's nothing like a Jeffery Deaver for a good summer pool-side read. He is the master at twists, character development, and suspense. "
— Dee, 10/2/2011 -
" Was really good for the first 1/3rd of the book then it turned into this person framed this person who framed this person. Too much! "
— Heather, 5/16/2011 -
" Not a bad plot and, even though it's part of a series, you don't feel too lost when things from the past are referenced. "
— Sarah, 5/14/2011 -
" great book. really enjoyed the twists and turns in it! "
— Christo, 4/26/2011 -
" Every time I get a chance I go back to my mystery genre. "
— Diane, 4/3/2011 -
" I really like Jeffery Deaver's books. I like the characters and the mystery/suspense is quite well done. "
— Beverly, 3/31/2011 -
" i think i dragged on a bit- and by the time the twist came about it was wrapped tooo quickly "
— Aricelys, 3/25/2011 -
" Complete and utter rubbish. I couldn't finish it because it was so bad. "
— Paul, 3/17/2011 -
" I am a big Jeffery Deaver fan. I like his Kathryn Dance character. He also manages to surprise me with a twist or two. "
— Fijifly, 3/11/2011 -
" Pretty ok, good read if a little predictable. "
— Luke433, 3/3/2011 -
" blech. too much on the explanation of the internets as if he were writing a 'dummies' guide. use of the word "perp" seemed so fake, as did most of the dialogue. just absolutely not engaging at all. (and i'd heard from several different people that deaver is a fantastic writer) "
— Jill, 2/25/2011 -
" it took a while for this book to pick the usual breath-taking deaver pace and i also agree that there were a few blog entries too many... but in the end you will not be left disappointed as the book envelops you fully on the last 200-100 pages. got to love deaver! "
— Veronika, 2/25/2011 -
" Loved it! Lots of unexpected turns! "
— Margaret, 2/15/2011 -
" good and quite thought provoking really, regarding the growing culture of existance online away from the 'real' world "
— Lisa, 2/9/2011
About Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. His novels have won the Nero Wolfe Award, three Ellery Queen Readers’ Awards, a British Thumping Good Read Award, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger awards from the British Crime Writers’ Association. A former journalist, folksinger, and attorney, he was born outside of Chicago and has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University.