Grayson Thibodeaux creates games, but they aren’t your normal run-of-the-mill games. The games he creates tests people on how well they perform under pressure and stress. Imagine being confronted the things you fear the most. How would you react?
On a day you consider to be the worst ever, it is imperative that you do a great job. Your finances are in ruin. Your spouse has just left you. Your life is going down the tubes. How would you do? Would you still have a job?
It is things like these that Grayson’s “game” tests you on. His company is making a killing. Businesses hire him to decide who to promote. All is great until the company his ex-wife works for hires him to create a game, one that his ex will be participating in. Those playing the game don’t know that they’re being tested. They don’t realize it’s all a game.
When his ex turns up dead during the game, he is the prime suspect.
Even though one of the police officers is one-hundred percent sure that Grayson is the guilty party, there are so many other people who had a motive to do in his ex. She just wasn’t a very likeable person.
As the list of those who had a motive grows, the plot thickens. This book is full of edge-of-your-seat suspense and is hard to put down. My husband is very picky about what he reads. The second a book slows down or loses his interest, it is put down and not picked up again. He loved this book from the first page to the last just as I did.
I was sent a copy of this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. If you would like your own copy to read, I’ve provided an Amazon link below.
Amazon Link: Stratagem
Favorite Sentences:
Ah, Brandon loved those telling signs of deception and discomfort.
How could someone just go totally out of character?
No wonder the world was such a scary place.
He never before realized how much like a fish in a fishbowl people in the hot box felt.
They wouldn’t haves and what ifs weren’t random—he’d never believed that.
New Word Learned:
medicolegal – pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine
About the Author – Robin Caroll
“I love boxing. I love Hallmark movies. I love fishing. I love scrapbooking. Nope, I’ve never fit into the boxes people have wanted to put me in.” ~Robin Caroll is definitely a contradiction, but one that beckons you to get to know her better.
Born and raised in Louisiana, Robin is a southerner through and through. Her passion has always been to tell stories to entertain others. Robin’s mother, bless her heart, is a genealogist who instilled in Robin the deep love of family and pride of heritage–two aspects Robin weaves into each of her 30 published novels.
When she isn’t writing, Robin spends time with her husband of twenty+ years, her three beautiful daughters and two handsome grandsons, and their character-filled pets at home—in the South, where else?
