Games Creatures Play

Publisher Marketing: Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this all-new story collection of the most peculiar plays ever made. Sports fans live and die by their teams successes and failures though not literally. But these fourteen authors have written spirited in more ways than one new tales of killer competitions that would make even the most die-hard players ask to be benched. In #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Charlaine Harris s The Blue Hereafter, Manfred Bernardo learns about softball from a certain blond barmaid in Louisiana. Life-and-death stakes make the competition get serious in New York Times bestseller William Kent Krueger s Hide and Seek. "New York Times" bestselling author Mercedes Lackey s False Knight on the Road features a high-stakes drag race on a foggy mountain road between a clever young bootlegger and a mysterious stranger. In "New York Times" bestselling author Laura Lippman s Ice, a young girl learns the true story behind a bit of neighborhood folklore. "New York Times" bestseller Seanan McGuire presents Jammed, in which a chimera loose during the Roller Derby makes it anyone s guess as to who will still be skating by the time the buzzer sounds. In #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Brandon Sanderson s Dreamer, a game of cops and robbers is a new challenge when the players are able to switch bodies at will. And "New York Times" bestselling author Scott Sigler follows ghost stomper Hunter Hunterson as he investigates a haunted, never-ending baseball game in The Case of the Haunted Safeway. These and eight more supernatural sporting stories are guaranteed to have you rooting for the home team or else. " Review Citations: Audio File 02/01/2015 pg. 48 (EAN 9781469222257, Compact Disc) Romantic Times 04/01/2014 pg. 85 (EAN 9780425256879, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Harris, Charlaine #1 "New York Times" bestseller Charlaine Harris was born in Mississippi and lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, daughter and three dogs. Their sons are out of the nest. She's written four series and two stand-alone novels in addition to numerous short stories and a novella or two. Her Sookie Stackhouse books have appeared in twenty-five different languages and on many best-seller lists. They're also the basis of the HBO series "True Blood."Contributor Bio:  Kelner, Toni L P Toni L. P. Kelner writes the Family Skeleton Mysteries as Leigh Perry and, under her own name, is the author of the Where Are They Now? Mysteries and the Laura Fleming series. She has won an Agatha Award and a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, and has been nominated multiple times for the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Derringer awards. Contributor Bio:  Haberkorn, Todd Todd Haberkorn works professionally in Los Angeles as an actor, director, producer, and writer. As a narrator, he has won multiple Earphone Awards and has had the pleasure of narrating everything from a maritime thriller to a story about a bed-and-breakfast vacation spot for aliens.