Out at Night - Softcover

Arnout Smith, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000727551X ISBN 13: 9780007275519

Publisher: William Collins, 2009

Synopsis

The next installment of Susan Arnout Smiths 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.

About this title

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.

Review:

From Libary Journal
In this sequel to The Timer Game, Grace Descanso, a medical doctor-turned-DNA profiler, is drawn into an FBI investigation when her name turns up in the phone of a professor who was shot to death with a crossbow. Trying to keep everything under control (she has to work with a detested uncle, and her five-year-old daughter is living with her father), Grace finds that her cousin is involved with an ecoterrorist group planning a major strike in the United States. Smith has created a brilliantly human character in Grace Descanso. Recommended for Tess Gerritsen fans.

Praise for The Timer Game

“A valuable addition. Her complex and compelling thriller is well plotted, adeptly executed, and thoroughly satisfying.”
---San Diego Union-Tribune

“Smith raises the tension with a complex—but never confusing—plot....What follows is heart-pounding suspense....Few thriller protagonists are as memorable.”
---Richmond Times-Dispatch

“[An] intriguing medical-thriller debut.”
---Booklist

“A nail-biting premise.”
---Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 000727551X
• ISBN 13: 9780007275519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448