Don't Talk to Strangers
A Novel
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Publisher Description
They were strangers in a seductive game of hide-and-seek.
One by one, the women were disappearing. Each had been young, vulnerable...and each had been spending time on the Internet "chatting" with a mysterious
stranger. It was Carrie Blue's job to track down that stranger, to put herself on the Internet in the guise of a lonely young student, and to smoke out a cunningly seductive killer.
But soon Carrie is drawn inexorably into a world where truth is indistinguishable from fiction, where fantasy and reality collide. It proves far more difficult than she ever could have imagined to resist the lure of a twisted mind--one that may already have figured out who Carrie is, and marked her as his next kill.
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Campbell (See How They Run) succeeds only partially in the difficult task she sets herself in this romantic suspense: bringing to life a fantasy world on the Internet while building suspense and terror in the characters' real lives. Carrie Blue, a former policewoman, is hired by private detective Hayden Ivanovich to help investigate the disappearance of several young women who had become romantically involved via their computers. Ultimately, Carrie, Hayden and others find themselves in real physical danger, but to land them there requires several implausible developments. These include a terrorist plot and a woman so gullible she gives up everything for her cyberlover even though she knows a murderer is stalking the Internet. Despite these flaws, Campbell offers powerful writing, well-drawn main characters and haunting images of an alternate reality that seems custom-made for predators, sexual manipulators and liars.
