Dead Game: An Emily Stone Novel

In her independent efforts to catch child killers, Emily Stone discovers the evidence that the cops cant - or wont - uncover. Now, this covert investigator is back on the hunt for the worlds most sick and twisted murderers. But even with help from ex-police detective Rick Lopez, this time shes facing her most dangerous opponent yet.The headlines in the San Jose Mercury News blare updates on a serial killer who seems able to slaughter with impunity. Men, women - it doesnt matter; the victims serve only to satisfy a perverted need to kill. The killer watches the moment of death on multiple computer screens, over and over again. The only connection is that theyre all devotees of the latest video-game craze - a sophisticated brain-puzzler called EagleEye.When the killer goes after Lopezs law-enforcement mentor, Lopez and Stone decide to give the cops a little extra, unsolicited help. What follows takes them deep inside a shocking high-tech world, a kind of social-networking community for serial killers. But when they start getting too close to the truth, all hells going to break loose.Now, Stone and Lopez become the killers next target as Stone must make a difficult decision to leave the ones she loves in an all-or-nothing effort for survival. Can they stay alive long enough to blow the whistle on this unlikely perpetrator?