Murder Online

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Summary: Murder Online will be impossible to forget
Review: Claire Jenson had just lost her husband a year earlier, and was trying to cope with that loss, when she receives a phone call saying that her youngest daughter, True, has been murdered in Chicago. How is she going to cope with this? How is she going to tell her other daughter? How are they going to make it through this together?

Detective Marty Slade is assigned the case, and he takes it personally. True had not only been murdered, but unspeakable things had happened to her. He has to get this monster off the streets now. Unfortunately, through a totally chilling source, he later finds out this monster inhabits the chat rooms on the web, and it isn't going to be easy to find him.

Not only are there three different suspects, there is also absolutely no cooperation coming forth from the local police. Add to these problems, Claire has determined that the police aren't working fast enough, and so she decides that she can find this killer faster herself. She is going to find him, no matter what. And she isn't going to listen to Marty, or to anyone else.

Ms. Anderson has written a story that will scare you to death. This could very well be a true crime story, as it is happening each, and everyday in the world today. This book will carry you right through, from page one to the last page with chills running down your spine, and your stomach lurching for your throat. At the same time you can't put it down. You have to know what is happening.

Ms. Anderson has captured the real world of the chat rooms. Do you ever really know who you are talking to? Are they really who they portray themselves to be, or are they cruising the Internet looking for their next victim? And are you going to be that victim?

If you do become that person's victim, how are the authorities ever going to find out who harmed you?

This is a very real, and very chilling story of what can, and does go on in the world of the chat rooms. I can't recommend enough that everyone read this wonderfully, written book. But don't read it with the lights down low, because you will be scared to death. And in this case that isn't all bad.

Ms. Anderson has captured an ugly side of the Internet so realistically, but at the same time has woven a wonderful story around it, so well that it will be difficult (no impossible) to forget. And, in my opinion, no one ever should.

And that takes real talent, which Ms. Anderson definitely has. I highly recommend that you pick up a copy of 'Murder Online' today, and get ready for the ride of your life. You will be very happy you did.

Rating:
Summary: Murder Online will be impossible to forget
Review: Claire Jenson had just lost her husband a year earlier, and was trying to cope with that loss, when she receives a phone call saying that her youngest daughter, True, has been murdered in Chicago. How is she going to cope with this? How is she going to tell her other daughter? How are they going to make it through this together?

Detective Marty Slade is assigned the case, and he takes it personally. True had not only been murdered, but unspeakable things had happened to her. He has to get this monster off the streets now. Unfortunately, through a totally chilling source, he later finds out this monster inhabits the chat rooms on the web, and it isn't going to be easy to find him.

Not only are there three different suspects, there is also absolutely no cooperation coming forth from the local police. Add to these problems, Claire has determined that the police aren't working fast enough, and so she decides that she can find this killer faster herself. She is going to find him, no matter what. And she isn't going to listen to Marty, or to anyone else.

Ms. Anderson has written a story that will scare you to death. This could very well be a true crime story, as it is happening each, and everyday in the world today. This book will carry you right through, from page one to the last page with chills running down your spine, and your stomach lurching for your throat. At the same time you can't put it down. You have to know what is happening.

Ms. Anderson has captured the real world of the chat rooms. Do you ever really know who you are talking to? Are they really who they portray themselves to be, or are they cruising the Internet looking for their next victim? And are you going to be that victim?

If you do become that person's victim, how are the authorities ever going to find out who harmed you?

This is a very real, and very chilling story of what can, and does go on in the world of the chat rooms. I can't recommend enough that everyone read this wonderfully, written book. But don't read it with the lights down low, because you will be scared to death. And in this case that isn't all bad.

Ms. Anderson has captured an ugly side of the Internet so realistically, but at the same time has woven a wonderful story around it, so well that it will be difficult (no impossible) to forget. And, in my opinion, no one ever should.

And that takes real talent, which Ms. Anderson definitely has. I highly recommend that you pick up a copy of 'Murder Online' today, and get ready for the ride of your life. You will be very happy you did.

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Summary: A chilling story of what could become reality.
Review: Claire Jenson is the victim of loss. Just a year has passed since she lost her dear husband to a sudden death. Now she has to deal with the murder of her darling daughter True. Only this time she will not sit by and idly except it. Claire is fighting mad at fate and the person who took her daughters life. Heading the investigation in Chicago, where her daughter was murdered, is Sergeant Detective Martin Slade. He doesn't have much to go on but he vows to find True's killer when he meets Claire. Something about her touches him deeply and he doesn't want to let her down. Claire decides to help the police whether they want her to or not. Through a series of leads she realizes that the murderer got to her daughter through the internet. She is bound and determined to flush him out into the open and bring her daughters murderer to justice. In the process she puts her own life on the line. Beth Anderson has written a chilling story of what could happen so very easily in real life. She will make you face the truth. How much do we really know about the people we talk to every day on the internet? Are they who they really tell us they are? Are they serial killers or perverts cruising the net for their next victim? MURDER ON LINE is so cleverly written that you won't know who to trust or when the next threat will pop up on Claire's computer. The lineup of characters that are on line are so deceptive you have no idea if they are the friends they claim to be. And when you meet them the first thing you will want to do is take a shower. They are that creepy! I can't recommend MURDER ON LINE enough. It's a fast paced and intelligent book. One thing you will definitely get from it is that not everything is what it seems to be when you are on line.

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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Fans who loved Beth Anderson's fluid lyricism in NIGHT SOUNDS will welcome her newest release MURDER ONLINE, where her poetic voice lures the reader through the treacherous territory of cybersex and murder. Her characters live and breathe, lending a pulse and breathlessness to the tale that will sweep the reader into a fascinating and dangerous world with a hard biting, surprising conclusion.

Claire Jenson is casting seeds in her flower garden when the call comes from Chicago that her youngest daughter has been murdered. Nineteen year old True had moved from her mother's home to Chicago, three and a half hours away, only six months ago. But the geographic brevity of the move belied the incredible distance and danger that life in Chicago had presented for young True. Burned from a romance gone wrong and a botched abortion, True preferred the excitement of chat rooms and cybersex to dating. Little had True realized that the dangers posed by stalkers over the Internet easily match the dangers of meeting strangers anywhere else.

Claire had lost her husband to a sudden heart attack only the year before True's death. Now only she and her oldest daughter Lannie are left. Computer illiterate, she objects to Lannie's suggestion that they bring True's computer home, but allows herself to be persuaded. As Lannie teaches her to maneuver in the mysterious world of cyberspace, Claire comes to understand the fascination her daughter held for a world that she had mistakenly assumed was both safe and anonymous.

Sergeant Detective Martin Slade has been a Chicago cop for almost thirty years, but the photos of True Jenson's body shake him as he recognizes her similarity to his own beloved granddaughter. Something about Claire's strength and depth of characters captures his imagination, and he finds himself promising to find True's killer even as the trail grows colder, leaving behind a crime not of passion, but a crime of deliberation and forethought. No one saw or heard the killer. When Claire discovers a letter written by True to her sister describing the three men who had been stalking her through the mysterious world of cyberspace, the Detective vainly tries to warn Claire of the dangers she seems to be courting in her pursuit of these mysterious men through chat rooms.

Anderson skillfully weaves a chilling tale of murder that leaves the reader forever questioning the safety of chat rooms and those who enter seemingly innocuous comments. Indeed, the world of cyberspace, in Anderson's hands, becomes as dangerous and deadly as the bars and hangouts always favored by the lonely. With a precision and deftness of pen, Anderson's murder mystery at once fascinates and repels computer users, however innocently we meet others online. Further, this fast paced, hard biting, yet entertainingly humorous and well developed mystery will simply whet the reader's appetite for yet more masterpieces from this author's pen.

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Summary: A Modern Murder Mystery
Review: Someone has murdered Claire Jensen's youngest daughter, and it may be someone she met in an Internet Chat Room. There are three separate men she had been talking to online and more than three people around her with compelling motives. Before long, Clair gets wrapped up in the case when she tries to find her daughter's chat partners, and it's up to Detective Marty Slade to sift the clues and figure out which of them killed True before he makes mother like daughter!
Beth Anderson has written an eerily realistic and enormously satisfying mystery about the dangers that lurk in the corners of the World Wide Web, and let me tell you they're a lot creepier than any old spider!
The mystery element is solid, with just the right amount of clues and suspects to keep the reader guessing at every turn and a dash of romance tossed in for good measure. Through it all, Anderson keeps it realistic and even makes her characters thoroughly irritating at times, which ultimately makes them more likeable.
Ultimately, the ending is one that you don't expect and makes you hungry for more of Anderson's work. Murder Online just serves as one more reason to turn away from the tired storylines of mainstream mystery and seek small pubbed authors post haste!

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Summary: A Chilling Thriller for Our Global Village
Review: With MURDER ONLINE, Beth Anderson has written the perfect Internet noir thriller. Ms. Anderson has taken the police procedural into the Twenty-First Century with this unique mystery merging a traditional fair-play whodunit with a police procedural and updated with the technology of the World Wide Web.

Claire Jenson is a downstate Illinois widow who is faced with another loss when her daughter True is murdered in the big bad city of Chicago. Chicago detective Marty Slade is assigned to the case, and he soon begins to become absorbed in the homicide investigation.

In many ways, MURDER ONLINE is a perfectly structured mystery. Ms. Anderson presents the set-up in the opening chapter. She introduces the major characters early on and begins the development of her varied subplots, immediately hooking her reader into her novel. Her novel ends with a cleverly dangerous plot climax.

There is a suggestion of romance between the widow and the detective. There are sibling rivalries between the murder victim and her sister that may have contributed to the murder. The suspects all appear on stage in one guise or another. The clues are provided, yet they are only obvious in retrospect. The multible themes are well developed.

A central focus of MURDER ONLINE involves the dark side of the Internet and its chatrooms. Claire takes it upon herself to hunt down her daughter's murderer in cyberspace. Ms. Anderson presents a disturbing picture of Internet stalking as Claire and Marty eventually uncover the identity of True's murderer.

When her reader finishes this novel, Ms. Anderson has certainly made her point about the disturbed people who can lurk among the strands of the World Wide Web. There are definitely sick people out there, shielding their identities and committing disgustingly harmful acts via their Internet hook-ups.

I read this book in one sitting, and I certainly recommend it highly.

Rating:
Summary: A Chilling Thriller for Our Global Village
Review: With MURDER ONLINE, Beth Anderson has written the perfect Internet noir thriller. Ms. Anderson has taken the police procedural into the Twenty-First Century with this unique mystery merging a traditional fair-play whodunit with a police procedural and updated with the technology of the World Wide Web.

Claire Jenson is a downstate Illinois widow who is faced with another loss when her daughter True is murdered in the big bad city of Chicago. Chicago detective Marty Slade is assigned to the case, and he soon begins to become absorbed in the homicide investigation.

In many ways, MURDER ONLINE is a perfectly structured mystery. Ms. Anderson presents the set-up in the opening chapter. She introduces the major characters early on and begins the development of her varied subplots, immediately hooking her reader into her novel. Her novel ends with a cleverly dangerous plot climax.

There is a suggestion of romance between the widow and the detective. There are sibling rivalries between the murder victim and her sister that may have contributed to the murder. The suspects all appear on stage in one guise or another. The clues are provided, yet they are only obvious in retrospect. The multible themes are well developed.

A central focus of MURDER ONLINE involves the dark side of the Internet and its chatrooms. Claire takes it upon herself to hunt down her daughter's murderer in cyberspace. Ms. Anderson presents a disturbing picture of Internet stalking as Claire and Marty eventually uncover the identity of True's murderer.

When her reader finishes this novel, Ms. Anderson has certainly made her point about the disturbed people who can lurk among the strands of the World Wide Web. There are definitely sick people out there, shielding their identities and committing disgustingly harmful acts via their Internet hook-ups.

I read this book in one sitting, and I certainly recommend it highly.