The Timer Game - Susan Arnout Smith

I was actually given this book and did not go to the shop and buy it for myself, though it is the sort of book I might have picked out while shopping. The copy I have looks a little different from the Dooyoo picture, it has a burgandy cover, so I assume this is available in at least two different cover styles if not more. On Amazon it is priced at £5.49 and I would have been really quite disappointed with this book had I paid that much for it. The story starts off relatively well with Grace Descanto playing a timer game with her five year old daughter Katie. That is our first glimpse of what the story is about. Grace is an overworked single Mother with the ...  Read the complete review

Its no real secret from looking at other book reviews that I'm quite partial to a nice crime/thriller story. So when needing a second book to add to my basket in the supermarket a few days ago it seemed that the only one I didnt already own was this 'The Timer Game' by an author whos name is familar yet I cannot place as being the writer of anything else I may have read recently. Grace and her daughter play a game in the mornings before school, its like a treasure hunt for Katie to find her clothes before the timer runs out. A game Grace remembers playing in her childhood and allows her to feel connected to her daughter even when her work pulls her ...  Read the complete review