Mash Up

Qigiq faced failure before, but the last time felt different—like the world had packed its technology bags and left him behind. So he trades his Fairbanks job for a temporary assignment with one Kandy Dreeson: a young, talented, rule-bending, seat-of-her-pants, detective on the San Francisco police force. Kandy energetically embraces the role of helping her new partner from Alaska learn how criminals use modern technology to commit crimes that didn’t exist until the 21st century. Their first case begins with the arrival of an Amazon box at the apartment of a college musician who hysterically claims the creepy contents belong to her cello-playing, recently-gone-missing roommate. After Qigiq’s life is threatened, more musicians receive “gifts,” and a new kind of virus is detected on the World Wide Web, Qigiq worries he is once again in over his head. Follow Qigiq and Kandy on this riveting escapade as they strive to avoid very real-life stalkers while unraveling a web of cyber-clues: a shocking video on YouTube posted by F112358, a mysterious Internet-virus that appears to attack music fans, and the curious power of a craigslist ad.