Backstory to the super-bestseller “Inside the Killer.” The second novel in the “Glenmore Park” cycle. Times have changed. Now killers don’t have to look for their victims on the streets or track them through city labyrinths. Their hunting grounds is the Net—where they can be anyone. Ghosts without names or faces, players in death…
In her own apartment, a young woman is found strangled. Detective Jacob Cooper from the Glenmore Park police discovers that the victim—a hermit who spends time in a brutal role-playing online game—has gotten lost in her own virtual world. To find the killer, Jacob will have to enter the game himself…
That same night—and also in his own apartment—a man is stabbed to death. The dead man was a vile internet troll who made fun of women on “Twitter.” And now Detective Hannah Shore, investigating this case, finds herself asking—against her will—whether the killer is really so guilty…
The Internet… the World Wide Web with countless dark corners where the cruelest, most vicious spiders are waiting for their victims. Jacob and Hannah crawl into this network, not knowing what lies ahead for them…