Virtually Dead

About the Author PETER MAY won the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Award at 21 and had his first novel published at 26. He went on to become a successful Scottish television dramatist. He lives in France with his wife Janice Halley. FLICK FAULDS is Peter May's Second Life avatar. Faulds is the owner and lead investigator of the Flick Faulds Detective Agency, based in the virtual world, Second Life. He became a resident of the metaverse in 2007, since then his agency has been in huge demand among Second Life's fourteen million netizens. During this time he has tracked down missing persons, unmasked cheating lovers, dealt with stalkers, and confronted griefers. Product Description Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is a man whose life is in a mess. But his second life is about to get a whole lot messier. Struggling with the recent death of his wife, Michael is persuaded by his psychologist to participate in a new kind of group therapy by entering a virtual world called Second Life. Once there, Michael discovers that murder is not just confined to the real world. Victims whose crime scenes he has attended have also been executed in the virtual world. Under his new alter ego, Michael embarks on an investigation with escort girl Doobie Littlething. Together they uncover a series of killings and a financial scam that is netting the murderer millions. But when Michael is tempted by the money that mysteriously appears in his Second Life account, both his real and his virtual lives are put in danger. Review Real life and the virtual world bleed into one another with dangerous results in this well-plotted mystery….May keeps the reader guessing while also providing an intriguing glimpse into the pleasures and pitfalls of SL. --Publishers Weekly