Virtually Dead
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HIS FIRST LIFE IS A DISASTER
2010, South California. Scottish-American crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is a mess, six months on from the death of his wife.
HIS SECOND LIFE IS A DISTRACTION
As a means of coping, he is persuaded to enter the online virtual world of Second Life, to participate in a new kind of group therapy.
NOW BOTH ARE IN DEADLY DANGER
Once there, he discovers a chilling connection between crime scenes he has attended in real life, and scenes depicted in the virtual world.
And when he then uncovers a series of killings, and links them to a lucrative financial scam, Michael finds himself a marked man in both worlds.
Peter May
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.
In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He also won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island.
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