by Michael Connelly
(2002)
Publisher: Grand Central
Henry Pierce is a young scientist, partner of an avant-garde society dealing with biotechnology. She has a bankruptcy love story behind her and has just moved into a new home. New house, new phone.
But the first time he listens to the answering machine he notices the presence of messages that are not directed to him. All calls are for a certain Lilly that, it is obvious, is in trouble up to the neck.
“Where is Lilly? This is her number. It’s on the site.”
Henry lets himself be captured by the world of Lilly, a red-lighted night world, made of sex via the Internet and secret identities. Overwhelmed by a sort of fatal attraction, Henry throws himself into a personal investigation of the mysterious woman, plunging into an inextricable and dangerous network.