Reading this Karen Rose book was like jumping in the middle of a party where you only know half the people. I missed a Dramatis personae list, like the one you could find at the beginning of an Agatha Christie novel, that would tell me who were all this people that kept popping out from the heroine's past.
Anyway, besides the annoying remarks about characters who undoubtly have their own books, this is a great thriller.
Eve Wilson has been twice the victim of psychos who tried to kill her and who, in the end, damaged her psychologically and scarred her for life. Finally Eve got her life back and became a psychology grad student. She's working on her thesis, a study about the effects on self-esteem of a computer game that allows you to have an alternative personality and interact with people in a virtual world called "Shadowland".
The story starts when Eve discovers that one of her study subjects has been murdered. What's worse, the police discover that several women had been murdered, their death staged as a suicide. All of them were subjects in Eve's study.
Eve starts collaborating with the police and specifically with Detective Noah Webster, a guy who has had the hots for Eve for a long time but who has his own demons to fight.
To make matters worse, a couple of reporters are following the members of the "Hat Squad" - the police section that's in charge of the murders - in order to expose them as incapable fools. Meanwhile, the body count keeps rising, and Eve and Noah are running against the clock to stop a serial killer who's preying on the women of Eve's study.
The thriller was great. It kind of misleads you at the beginning so you start to suspect the wrong guy, but actually you can pinpoint the killer by the middle of the book. However, the author throws a couple of surprises that make you doubt yourself, so it was actually quite fun. I was so intrigued by this virtual world that I ended surveying the "real thing" in the net.
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