The Monterey Peninsula is rocked whenever a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways — not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to eliminate in especially horrific and efficient methods: using the personal details about the victims that they’ve carelessly published in blogs and on social networking websites.

The case lands over the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation’s foremost kinesics — body language-expert. She and Deputy about Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel Michael O’Neil stick to the leads to Travis Brigham, a stressed teenager whose role inside a fatal car accident has influenced vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Survey.

As the investigation advances, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Video games, he quickly eludes his pursuers and continues to monitor his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not really. Among the hurdles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents as well as the blogger himself, Adam Chilton, whose belief in the need for blogging and the new press threatens to derail the case and possibly Dance’s career. It is this danger that triggers Dance to take desperate and risky measures…

In signature Jeffery Deaver style, Roadside Crosses is definitely filled with dozens of story twists, cliff-hangers and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing go through the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. Roadside Crosses may be the third in Deaver’s bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, combined with the Blue Nowhere as well as the Broken Window.