Alafair Burke signs 212

04/26/2010 7:00 pm
04/26/2010 8:00 pm

NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, introduced in Alafair Burke’s Dead Connection, returns in 212. Ellie and her partner investigate the murder of a New York University student, following her reports of a cyberstalker posting threatening messages to an on-line gossip website. When the student’s phone records provide a link to a murdered real estate agent, who in turn may be linked to the dramatic murder of a bodyguard whose corpse was left in building 212 (hence the title), Ellie will risk her career and safety to find the answers.  Alafair has also written three novels featuring Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid, drawing on her background as a prosecutor prosecutor in America’s police precincts and criminal courtrooms. MG welcomes Alafair to the Galaxy on Monday, April 26, at 7:00 PM.

212 (Hardcover)

$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780061561221
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Harper, 4/2010

When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her — but thanks to the anonymity provided by the Internet, the police tell her there's nothing they can do. Her friends are sure it's someone's idea of a joke, but when Megan is murdered in a vicious attack, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced that the online threats are more than just empty words.

With smooth, straight-talking partner J. J. Rogan at her side, Ellie tries to identify Megan's enemies, but she begins to wonder if the coed's murder was more than just the culmination of a cyber obsession. Phone records reveal a link between Megan and a murdered real estate agent who was living a dangerous double life. The detectives also learn that the dead real estate agent shared a secret connection to a celebrity mogul whose bodyguard was mysteriously killed a few months earlier. And when Megan's roommate suddenly disappears, they know they have to find her before another young woman dies.

212 is steeped in the details of the crossroads between technology and prurience and proves once again that Alafair Burke "knows when and how to drop clues to keep readers at her mercy.


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