Die for Me • Karen Rose • Book Synopsis
Hachette Book Group USA 2007
An obsessed, cold loner who measures twice and cuts once.’ The profile of the killer who turns reality into games.
Dr. J, Sophie Johannsen, is an archaeologist, and currently working as the curator of the Albright Museum of History in Philadelphia. At least the work makes her feel that she still has a hand on the treasures that were buried 500 years ago and brought to light for the curious to see. Her abrupt change in plans had to do with the care of her beloved grandmother, Anna Schubert. A famous opera singer in her younger days, Anna now spends her remaining years in a long-term care facility. She had given up her singing career to make a permanent home for Sophie who's own mother had abandoned her. Sophie would lay down her life for her grandmother. Changing careers was a pittance in the scheme of things when it came to caring for Anna.
One of Sophie's few close friends, Katherine Bauer, is also the Medical Examiner. When Katherine asks Sophie to help with a case, little did either realize that it would bring Sophie into the killer's path.
Video games can have themes of the present or of the past. When the hottest game in town is played, the viewer sees the re-created results of real life events thinking it is a wonder of modern technology, when in fact it WAS murder. Can Sophie help the police find this calculating loner before she too becomes an unwilling actor in the best video game currently being played.
Moderator, LTM Reading Group
Selection for meeting: March 31, 2009
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