Police lieutenant Karl Genesko and his fiancee, computer pro Anneke Haagen, are finally tying the knot-and in-law-deep in pre-wedding jitters and activities. Anneke's grown daughters and granddaughter are arriving soon, she's got her consulting business ends tied up, and the University of Michigan's Art Museum rotunda is a glorious wedding locale. But when Karl is called away suddenly to investigate a mailbomb murder in Oakland, the victim turns out to be "Vince Mattus"-and the happy couple become suspects in the case. Mattus is one of six computer gamers in Anneke's on-line chats-evidence found in his apartment links the group, and Karl, to the murder. From a punk party girl to a Silicon Valley heavy, the suspects create a murder game to catch the killer--on-line. As the game zeroes in on the culprit, identities disappear and emerge. And for Karl and Anneke, "till death do us part" might happen sooner than anyone suspected.