General Information
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 Title:                  Dead Connection
 Author:                 Alafair Burke
 Read By:                Christopher Lane
 Copyright:              2007
 Audiobook Copyright:    2007
 Genre:                  Speech
 Publisher:              Brillance Audiobooks
 Abridged:               No

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 Number:                 1
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Good

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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
Putting feisty DA Samantha Kincaid on hold after three novels (Close 
Case, etc.), Burke introduces a disappointingly dull heroine in 30-year-old NYPD 
detective Ellie Hatcher. 
Flamboyant homicide detective Flann McIlroy asks outspoken Ellie to 
assist in looking into the First Date case, a series of murders seemingly connected by the 
female victims' subscription to an online-dating site. Flann is relying on curvy Ellie 
as date bait, but also hopes that Ellie's past might help with the case: Ellie's father, 
a Wichita, Kans., cop, died under mysterious circumstances soon after bringing an infamous 
local serial killer, the College Hill Strangler, to justice. As Ellie and Flann dig deeper 
into the shady history of the dating site—and its potential link to the Russian mafia—Ellie 
realizes that the killer is taunting her just as the College Hill Strangler taunted her father. 
Ellie's character never quite gels, however, and her interactions with the suspects don't provide 
enough tension or heat to keep pages turning all the way through. (July) 
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All rights reserved.
 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 

From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–New York Detective Ellie Hatcher has been recruited 
by a Manhattan Homicide Task Force to assist renegade detective Flann McIlroy (whose nickname 
McIl Mulder alludes to his unusual way of solving his cases). The two are on the trail of a 
serial killer who is using an Internet matchmaking company called FirstDate. Soon they are 
enmeshed in the world of Internet socializing where the users trust that their identities 
can be hidden, but the reality is that those with the right skills can track down anyone online. 
And people are dying. 
There are a lot of subplots involving Ellie's family, other officers, 
the Russian mafia, and the FBI, and the plot twists and folds back on itself nicely at the end.–Jane 


