The novel takes place over five days. Agent Dance of the California Bureau of Investigation and Deputy O'Neil solve the case with the help of Dance's expert body language interpretation. The appearance of a bunch of roses at the side of the road is interpreted as a memorial and tribute to someone who died in an accident, but crosses with roses and suspicious corpses begin to appear. All this is collected in an influential blog that, under the illusion of fighting for justice, creates a distorted reality that ends up destroying lives, while promoting the anonymity of the internet as a refuge.
It is a novel about cyberbullying and how for some the internet world is a refuge and is taken advantage of to commit crimes. It is a shocking story with intrigue and unexpected twists and turns that makes a call that not everything goes. There are characters of all kinds: hypocrites, fanatics, messianists, but there are others who are heroic and honest. It presents a youth very influenced by social networks, sometimes alcoholic or with a lot of drug use. Along with this theme of cyberbullying, it presents in a negative way people who demonstrate against abortion.
Jeffery Deaver (1950) is an American writer known for his detective thrillers. He is an expert in the world of the Internet. He created the character of agent Dance, an expert in body language who made the television series “The Mentalist” fashionable.