Specimen - Lisa Towles

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Résumé :
One dead body. One missing friend. One deadly game she never agreed to play.Thea Riggs was supposed to have two months of freedom before college, partying with her friends, and relaxing before she had to leave it all behind. But when her best friend summons her in the middle of the night and then vanishes without a trace, Thea walks straight into a nightmare.Her friend's mother is dead, and Thea is the one who finds the body. In a split-second decision, Thea snaps a picture of the dead body and the game begins.Without intending to be, Thea is now a player in the Dead Sevens Club, an underground viral challenge that doesn't just exist online-it follows you into real life. The rules? No one knows. The players? Invisible. The stakes? Life or death. Someone wanted Thea in this game. Someone set her up. Someone is watching her every move.To escape, Thea has to do more than solve a murder. She has to uncover the truth-about the game, about the people behind it, about why she was chosen. And to do that, she must risk everything.This game isn't just about winning. It's about survival.Because in Dead Sevens Club, the only way out is to play.Specimen is a high-stakes thriller packed with shocking twists and dark secrets. Are you brave enough to play the game with Thea?...

Sommaire:
Lisa Towles is an Amazon bestselling, award-winning crime novelist and a passionate speaker on the topics of fiction writing, creativity, and self care. She has ten crime thrillers in print with a new title, Terror Bay, forthcoming in November of 2023. Her latest thriller, Salt Island (June, 2023) won both a Readers Choice and a Pencraft literary award. Salt Island is the second book in her E&A Investigations series following Hot House (June, 2022). Lisa is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers and is deeply committed to supporting writers' success through friendship, fellowship and community engagement. She is Board President of a Bay Area nonprofit (Bridgegood.org) and speaks frequently to groups of business leaders and writers. She has an MBA in IT Management and works full-time in the tech industry in the San Francisco Bay area....