Out at Night (A Grace Descanso Novel) - Hardcover

Smith, Susan Arnout

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312368348 ISBN 13: 9780312368340

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2009

Synopsis

Itâ€TMs the dead of night, and Professor Thaddeus Bartholomew is frantically crawling through a field to stay alive. With mere moments to act, he has only enough time to type out a text messageâ€"a nameâ€"before his stalker overcomes him. Later heâ€TMs found with a hole in his chest, shot with a crossbow, and burned to death.Meanwhile, San Diego crime scene tech Grace Descanso has gone on vacation with her daughter, but the FBI feels far from guilty about interrupting them after her name turns up on the professorâ€TMs phone. Grace knows vaguely who he is, but canâ€TMt imagine why his dying act would involve her in any wayâ€"not that it matters. The FBI wonâ€TMt let her walk away; she can either join the investigation or become a suspect in it. Soon, political leaders and extremists will converge at the worldâ€TMs largest agricultural conference, and all signs indicate that Bartholomewâ€TMs brutal murder in a field of genetically modified soy is just the beginning of something much larger than one manâ€TMs death.A...

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Praise for ‘The Timer Game’:

‘“The Timer Game” is a highly entertaining, intelligent, original yet classic thriller. Susan Arnout Smith has written a gem here – memorable characters and a fast and furious ticking-clock plot. A really good read!’ John Lescroart

About the Author:

SUSAN ARNOUT SMITH is a third-generation Alaskan whose grandparents homesteaded an island. Winner of the Stanley Drama Award and a playwright at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, she has also been a recreation director on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a television anchor in Anchorage, and an essayist for National Public Radio. She has written screenplays for TV movies, one of which was a finalist for the PEN USA West Award. She lives in Southern California with her husband. This is her third novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312368348
• ISBN 13: 9780312368340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293