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Also by Susan Arnout Smith:

The Timer Game, January 2008
Hardcover

The Timer Game
Susan Arnout Smith

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 won’t 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 she’s 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 he’s killed two of her colleagues and after he’s called her by name, in a bizarre kind of warning, about someone he called “the Spikeman.” 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.

Comments

2 comments posted.

Re: The Timer Game

All this is called the loud word "campaign". While their three - relatively
speaking, light, complex and very complex. And all are furnished as a
spectacular television show about survival in the world of the future -
with the cameras hovering around the hero, an effective representation
of the participants in the competition and the voiceover of the
presenter.
(Henrik Jensen 10:28am May 20, 2018)

There are only four heroes, and everyone, of course, has his unique
skill and his fighting style. Initially, a combat magician is available who
can beat all those around him with a blast wave, and then you can
unlock other characters, including a warrior who famously runs a huge
firehammer, and a Stormbringer archer. Also, if certain conditions are
met (kill as many opponents, pass as many cards, do not pick up
"health", and so on), new companions are opened and different
bonuses are awarded.
(Henrik Jensen 10:29am May 20, 2018)