A string of seemingly unrelated murders baffles the St. Louis police until PJ Gray, psychologist and pioneer in forensic computer simulation, detects a pattern. As head of the Computerized Homicide Investigations Department, PJ has already cracked a number of cases using an innovative virtual reality program that allows her to "see" the murders from the victim's or killer's perspective. But the truth is shocking. For the killer is a friend of PJ's son--and he's 12. His name is Columbus, and although in reality he is a ...
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A string of seemingly unrelated murders baffles the St. Louis police until PJ Gray, psychologist and pioneer in forensic computer simulation, detects a pattern. As head of the Computerized Homicide Investigations Department, PJ has already cracked a number of cases using an innovative virtual reality program that allows her to "see" the murders from the victim's or killer's perspective. But the truth is shocking. For the killer is a friend of PJ's son--and he's 12. His name is Columbus, and although in reality he is a seventh grade misfit, in virtual reality, he's the ruler of a gruesome alternate universe, where he rehearses his brutal murder. And PJ's son may be his next victim.
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