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Author:	Linda Grant	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster	ISBN-10:	0684826755
ISBN-13:	9780684826752	Subject:	Mystery, Thriller
Publication Year:	1998	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
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Computer programmer and role-playing game aficionado Matt Demming specializes in vampire-related games.When Matt is found bled to death with two puncture wounds at his throat, private eye Catherine Sayler fears his last game wasn't much fun.
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Length:	285 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	19.2 oz.

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Chloe Dorn is missing. The sixteen-year-old was there, in the Stanford Cactus Garden, the night of the murder. She saw something, knows something. Now she's running for her life. A young man is dead, killed in a particularly bizarre and frightening way. The cops find the body, neatly laid out with hands crossed on his chest, two puncture wounds to the neck, his blood drained. Either a cult is at work, or a cunning killer has taken a vampire game too far. Vampire games permeate this case, as private investigator Catherine Sayler soon discovers when she's called in both to search for a computer programmer who has disappeared and to help find Chloe. Chloe Dorn had a fascination with vampires, and she knew Matt Demming. Together, they were part of an LARP, a Live Action Role-Playing game, in which human beings play the role of vampires and the city streets become the game board. Chloe and Matt played the game the night they disappeared. Matt, Catherine soon learns, is the victim who was killed in the Cactus Garden. Catapulted into a high-profile case, where the cops, the media, and Chloe's outraged pastor are screaming "cults", Catherine plays for time as she enlists her niece Molly, her lover Peter, and her partner Jesse in her search for the truth, and, even more urgently, for Chloe.
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Role-playing games (RPGs) virtual and actual take center stage in this perceptive sixth entry in Grant's series starring San Francisco Bay Area's technologically savvy PI Catherine Sayler (Lethal Genes, etc.). Catherine hires on with a computer gaming company to find its lead programmer, Matt Demming, who has fled and taken with him a new vampire game's source code. Before she gets very deeply into the case, the young man's body is found, drained of blood with two puncture wounds in his neck. Because Matt also played the role of a vampire in a live-action RPG taking place on the streets, the police are divided as to whether the killing is related to business (his computer and the code are still missing) or a cult. While the cops hash out their theories, egged on by a minister who has sworn to demolish all cults, Catherine agrees to help search for Chloe Dorn, the missing friend of her teenage niece. Chloe, Catherine learns, had been with Matt the evening he disappeared. E-mail, computer games and the Internet figure prominently as Grant expertly juggles the emotional and technological elements of the game players' fanciful, often terrifying world, where the lines separating fantasy and reality blur. (Apr.) Lopate

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VAMPIRE BYTES: A CRIME NOVEL WITH CATHERINE SAYLER (Crime Novels)

Linda Grant

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	0684826755
Publication Date:	1998-04-02
Publisher:	Scribner

Pages:	288
Height:	1.0100 inches
Width:	6.3900 inches
Weight:	1.1300 pounds

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