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The Timer Game is a pulse-pounding race-against-time novel of suspense from a talented writer.
Minotaur Books
January 2008
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Featuring: Grace Descanso
336 pages
ISBN: 031236833X
EAN: 9780312368333
Hardcover
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Mystery | Thriller
Grace Descanso was going to be a pediatric heart surgeon---she was a brilliant up-and-comer with a bright future in a heartbreaking, innovative field. Then she took two months off to work in a clinic in Guatemala, and something happened there that nearly destroyed her. She wonβt talk about why, but she quit medicine and nearly killed herself with drink. Finally, inch by inch, she pulled it all together for her new baby girl. Now, five years later, though sheβs sworn off practicing as a doctor, Grace is using her science background as a crime scene tech in San Diego and going to AA meetings, scraping by and living to be a mom to five-year-old Katie. Everything falls apart again when in the middle of processing a crime scene Grace shoots a madman after heβs killed two of her colleagues and after heβs called her by name, in a bizarre kind of warning, about someone he called βthe Spikeman.β A day later, her daughter is kidnapped right out from under her, and instead of a ransom note, the kidnapper sends her on a harrowing twenty-four-hour scavenger hunt, laying out clues and giving out deadlines, leading her carefully, terrifyingly closer to Katie---and to him.
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