E-audiobook
Virtually dead
Record details
- ISBN: 9781441716613 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1441716610 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
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electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 9:43:18. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Paul Michael Garcia. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 139708 KB; MP3 file size: 273708 KB). |
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| Subject: | Virtual reality -- Fiction Photographers -- Fiction Crime scenes -- Fiction Serial murderers -- Fiction Newport Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. Mystery fiction. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
To help cope with his wife's death, Michael joins group therapy in a virtual world where members create identities based on avatars, but he becomes a target while investigating avatar murders that start to match real-life murders. - Blackstone Audio Inc
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, with dead bodies turning up in both.Staggering under the financial burden bequeathed him by his recently deceased wife, Michael is also struggling 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, in the persona of his Brad Pitt lookalike, Chas Chesnokov, Michael soon discovers that murder is not just confined to the real world. Victims whose crime scenes he has attended in the wealthy Southern California resort of Newport Beach, have had their avatars clinically executed in the virtual world. The game has just turned deadly.Co-opted into the Twist of Fate Detective Agency, Michael's Second Life alter ego, Chas, embarks on an investigation with exotic dancer and escort girl, Doobie Littlething. Together they uncover a series of killings and a financial scam that is netting the murderer millions of dollars-real dollars.But when Michael is tempted by the money that mysteriously appears in Chas's Second Life account, both his real and his virtual lives are put in danger. And in a thrilling denouement played out in the dark and secret worlds on both sides of the computer screen, one of them will die and a shocking secret will be revealed. - Findaway World Llc
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, with dead bodies turning up in both.Staggering under the financial burden bequeathed him by his recently deceased wife, Michael is also struggling 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, in the persona of his Brad Pitt lookalike, Chas Chesnokov, Michael soon discovers that murder is not just confined to the real world. Victims whose crime scenes he has attended in the wealthy Southern California resort of Newport Beach, have had their avatars clinically executed in the virtual world. The game has just turned deadly.Co-opted into the Twist of Fate Detective Agency, Michael's Second Life alter ego, Chas, embarks on an investigation with exotic dancer and escort girl, Doobie Littlething. Together they uncover a series of killings and a financial scam that is netting the murderer millions of dollarsâreal dollars.But when Michael is tempted by the money that mysteriously appears in Chas's Second Life account, both his real and his virtual lives are put in danger. And in a thrilling denouement played out in the dark and secret worlds on both sides of the computer screen, one of them will die and a shocking secret will be revealed.
