Rock Paper Scissors: A Lizzy Ballard Thriller (The Lizzy Ballard Thrillers) - Softcover

Dalrymple, Matty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098626752X ISBN 13: 9780986267529

Publisher: William Kingsfield Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

She was born with an extraordinary ability ...

... and while she tries to hide it, others seek to control it.

Who will win this deadly zero-sum game?

Rock breaks scissors. Scissors cut paper. Paper covers rock. The rules are simple--except when it's people's lives at stake.

When Lizzy's parents discover the damage she can do with her mind, they hide her away, trying to save her from life as a human lab rat ... and trying to save others from her power.

But they can't hide her forever.

Little do they know that professed friends are actually enemies who will eliminate anyone who gets in the way of their goal of turning Lizzy's power to their own ends.

As her protectors are picked off one by one, will Lizzy be able to escape from this deadly zero-sum game?

Find out now in this first installment of the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers Trilogy!

About this title

About the Author

Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels, "The Sense of Death" and "The Sense of Reckoning," and "Rock Paper Scissors: A Lizzy Ballard Thriller," which launches in March 2017. She lives with her husband, Wade Walton, and their dogs in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which is the setting for much of the action in "The Sense of Death" and "Rock Paper Scissors." In the summers they enjoy vacationing on Mt. Desert Island, Maine, where "The Sense of Reckoning" takes place. Matty's husband is a pilot and Matty has logged time in a Piper Warrior, a Cessna 150, and a 1946 Stinson Voyager--she's considering an aviation-based plot for the third Ann Kinnear book. Learn more at mattydalrymple.com.

Review

"Dalrymple has written a fast-paced, complex thriller that can keep a reader engaged and off-kilter until its foreboding conclusion. The anxiety of protecting a child at all costs is palpable, as is the terror of not being able to control one's own urges, however devastating they might be. Readers should hope the author conceives of a sequel. A deadly game involving a dangerous girl that does have a winner: the reader." --Kirkus Reviews

"Not since Carrie have we seen a character excite such fear in those forced to learn her terrible secret the hard way." --Robert Blake Whitehill, Award-winning screenwriter and author of The Ben Blackshaw Series

"A bubbling zinger that grabs you on the first page and doesn't let go even at the end, when it leaves you wanting to take the main characters home, or to follow them to their next date with suspense." --Merry Jones, Author of the Elle Harrison, Harper Jennings, and Zoe Hayes thrillers

"Not since Stephen King's 'Firestarter' has someone like Lizzy Ballard come along, a young woman who fears herself even more than she fears others." --Suzanne Chazin, Author of the Jimmy Vega mystery series

Edition details

• Publisher: William Kingsfield Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 098626752X
• ISBN 13: 9780986267529
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 412