Out at Night
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Publisher Description
The next installment of Susan Arnout Smith’s gripping detective series starring CSI detective Grace Descanso.
Thaddeus Bartholomew, a history professor, is forced at gunpoint to drive to a soy field. As he lies dying, he leaves a message on his answerphone at home in Morse code: find Grace Descans-. Cut off before finishing, the FBI need to know why he asked for Grace. Called back from the Bahamas where she is watching her daughter's father build a bond with his little girl, Grace knows she hasn't got much time to stop the killer.
A journey into a world of activism and violence, secrets and lies, 'Out at Night' is a breakneck rollercoaster of a thriller, gripping from the first page until the last.
Reviews
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 an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter, writing TV movies for ABC,CBS and Lifetime. ‘Out at Night’ is her second thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Smith's overheated follow-up to her debut, The Timer Game, someone with a crossbow shoots an arrow into the chest of Professor Thaddeus Bartholomew, a gadfly protesting GM, or genetically modified, crops on the eve of an international agricultural convention in Palm Springs, Calif. The attacker then douses the professor with gasoline and lights a match. Alarmed by Bartholomew's murder, the FBI suspects Radical Damage, a violent protest group, has plans to disrupt the conference at its closing ceremony. Grace Descanso, who works for the San Diego police crime lab, finds various family members complicating the investigation, including her estranged Uncle Pete, an FBI special agent, and her pregnant cousin, Vonda, who's possibly involved with the radicals. In spite of the hectic pace, the precise nature of the radicals' threats is revealed too late to generate much suspense, and the wrapup is unsatisfyingly neat. Author tour.
