Poisoned Pen Press
January 2010
On Sale: January 1, 2010
Featuring: Michael Kapinsky
458 pages ISBN: 1590587081 EAN: 9781590587089 Trade Size Add to Wish List
Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is a man whose
first life is in a mess. But his second life is about to get
a whole lot messier. Staggering under the financial burden
left by his recently deceased wife, Michael struggles to
come to terms with her death - until his psychologist
persuades him to enter a virtual world called Second Life to
participate in a new kind of group therapy. Once there, his
persona, Chas Chesnokov, discovers that victims whose crime
scenes Michael has attended in the wealthy Southern
California resort of Newport Beach have had their avatars
clinically executed in the virtual world.
Co-opted into the Twist of Fate Detective Agency, Chas
embarks on an investigation with an exotic dancer and escort
girl. They uncover a series of killings and a financial scam
that is netting the murderer millions of dollars. And when
Michael is tempted by money that mysteriously appears in
Chas’s Second Life account, both his real and his virtual
lives are in danger.