A thriller that doesn't go where you expect it to go. It's about a F/X expert who puts her skills to the test saving her brother from a murder rap. I'm a gamer, so all the info on underground games was interesting. Can't relaly compare it to anything, but it held my interest all the way through.. ( )

What if an ordinary American boy got involved in an Internet game in which something sinister was planned by those who developed the game? (Like murder.) That's the idea behind this book. It taught me a lot about the type of "videogames" played on the Internet and other things my teenage son would probably just as soon I not know!

The heroine is the ordinary boy's sister. She has a background in film and FX, which comes in handy when a surveillance tape shows her brother supposedly shooting another boy. But this book isn't about a simple shooting, it's about something much bigger.

The book is ambitious. On a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of complicated plots, it's an eight at least. I liked that, but it means you have to concentrate. Can't just skim your way through. The dialog is great, very vivid descriptions of San Francisco and lots of dark humor. Good book to read if you want to stay up all night. Kirra Harper

Death Game has one of the most unusual protagonists I've seen in a thriller. Cooper O'Brien is a special effects artist, an expert in animation, compositing, puppeteering and particularly digital effects.

She worked for a place like Dream Works, but when the book begins she has left that to go back to her (spoiler alert) husband's law practice. She's creating reenactments of fatal accidents when her own brother is caught by a camera shooting and killing another boy. How she figures out the tape has been altered is amazing. I learned a lot about this whole field...something I'd never seen covered in a mystery before.

Very enjoyable story...like a box of best chocolates. Delicious and somewhat addictive. ( )

Met this author in a signing in Kauai. The story is more of a thriller than a mystery--lots of action. Pretty engrossing, although the ending was too up in the air for me. Read it on the airplane home and made the flight seem short, so I would recommend. ( )