Roadside Crosses
MONDAY
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Deaver, Jeffery.
Roadside crosses: a Kathryn Dance novel / Jeffery Deaver.
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
p. cm.
1. PolicewomenFiction. 2. Juvenile homicideFiction. 3. Internet and teenagersFiction. 4. Online social networksFiction. 5. Serial murderersFiction. 6. CaliforniaFiction. I. Title.
PS3554.E1755R63 2009
813'.54dc22
2009002284
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-6602-4
ISBN-10: 1-4391-6602-1
Authors Note
One theme of this novel is the blurring of the line between the synthetic worldthe online lifeand the real world. Accordingly, if you happen to come across a website address in the pages that follow, you might wish to type it into your browser and go where it takes you. You wont need whats in those websites to enjoy the novel, but you may just find a few extra clues that will help you unravel the mystery. You might also simply be interestedor disturbedby what you find there. [W]hat the Internet and its cult of anonymity do is to provide a blanket sort of immunity for anybody who wants to say anything about anybody else, and it would be difficult in this sense to think of a more morally deformed exploitation of the concept of free speech.
RICHARD BERNSTEIN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
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