Death Before Facebook (Skip Langdon #4) (Skip Langdon Mystery) (The Skip Langdon Series)
by Julie Smith
Online was always a dangerous place--even in 1994, when Mark Zuckerberg was ten and this book was first published. But who knew? The Internet was the fresh new face in town. Twenty-year-old Geoff Kavanagh should never have posted about seeing his father murdered…because way too many people in his online community, the TOWN, knew things about his family he didn’t even suspect. Secret after secret start to unravel after Geoff’s oddly untimely death, thanks to New Orleans Detective Skip Langdon, who finds Geoff’s gorgeous mom suspiciously uninterested in her son’s mysterious fatal fall. But she’s apparently the only one. Seemingly all the TOWNSpeople have theories—and ambition as cyberdetectives. Quite a dangerous situation for the murderer. Calling the windup “a virtuoso spin on Rashomon,” Kirkus said, “Smith worms her way deeply and painfully into her cast's layers and layers of past relations, getting deeper than ever into Skip as well.”