Susan Arnout Smith was born in Anchorage, Alaska. Her grandparents, Gene and Marie Weschenfelder, homesteaded Spuhn Island near Juneau. She grew up in Bergen Park, Colorado, graduating from Evergreen High School and the University of Colorado in Boulder. She moved back to Alaska and worked on the Alaska pipeline and as a television anchor. Married, both her children were born in Anchorage.

Her first novel, The Frozen Lady, was published by Arbor House and Zebra Books and is now out of print.

The Timer Game is Smith's debut thriller novel set in San Diego. Her protagonist, Grace Descanso, is a gutsy crime scene technician and struggling single mother of five year old, Katie. When Katie is kidnapped, Grace must play the game or lose Katie forever. John Lescroart, author of The Suspect writes, "The Timer Game is a highly entertaining, intelligent, original yet classic medical thriller, Susan Arnout Smith has written a gem here!"

Smith has written television movies that have aired in the United States and other countries and has been a writer for National Public Radio, Weekend Edition-Sunday and winner of the Stanley Drama Award. She has used these talents to create Timer Game "webisodes" and if you "want to play", go to www.thetimergame.com.

Besides, the United States, The Timer Game will be available in eleven countries. Ms. Smith currently resides in southern California.

Novels by Susan Arnout Smith

• The Frozen Lady (1983)
• The Timer Game (2008)

Similar Reads: Medical Thrillers

• Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
• Fatal by Michael Palmer
• Shock by Robin Cook
• Cause of Death by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
• Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark
• The Third Twin by Ken Follett

On the Web

• The Timer Game Webisodes
• Susan Arnout Smith - Official Website