What happens when an extraordinary ability transforms an ordinary life?
Matty Dalrymple welcomes you to the worlds of Ann Kinnear and Lizzy Ballard.
Matty Dalrymple welcomes you to the worlds of Ann Kinnear and Lizzy Ballard.
The Lizzy Ballard Thrillers
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The Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels
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The Ann Kinnear Suspense Shorts
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Rock Paper Scissors: A Lizzy Ballard Thriller (Book 1)
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She was born with an extraordinary ability …
… and while she tries to hide it, others seek to control it. Who will win this deadly zero-sum game? Rock breaks scissors. Scissors cut paper. Paper covers rock. The rules are simple—except when it's people's lives at stake. When Lizzy’s parents discover the damage she can do with her mind, they hide her away, trying to save her from life as a human lab rat … and trying to save others from her power. But they can't hide her forever. Little do they know that professed friends are actually enemies who will eliminate anyone who gets in the way of their goal of turning Lizzy’s power to their own ends. As her protectors are picked off one by one, will Lizzy be able to escape from this deadly zero-sum game? Find out now in this first installment of the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers Trilogy! “Dalrymple has written a fast-paced, complex thriller that can keep a reader engaged and off-kilter until its foreboding conclusion. ... A deadly game involving a dangerous girl that does have a winner: the reader.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Not since Carrie have we seen a character excite such fear in those forced to learn her terrible secret the hard way.” —Robert Blake Whitehill, Award-winning screenwriter and author of The Ben Blackshaw Series
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“A bubbling zinger that grabs you on the first page and doesn't let go even at the end, when it leaves you wanting to take the main characters home, or to follow them to their next date with suspense.” —Merry Jones, Author of the Elle Harrison, Harper Jennings, and Zoe Hayes thrillers
“Not since Stephen King’s Firestarter has someone like Lizzy Ballard come along, a young woman who fears herself even more than she fears others. Briskly paced and darkly imagined, Dalrymple’s thriller keeps readers turning the pages—with menace around every corner.” —Suzanne Chazin, Author of the Jimmy Vega mystery series
“Not since Stephen King’s Firestarter has someone like Lizzy Ballard come along, a young woman who fears herself even more than she fears others. Briskly paced and darkly imagined, Dalrymple’s thriller keeps readers turning the pages—with menace around every corner.” —Suzanne Chazin, Author of the Jimmy Vega mystery series
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Snakes and Ladders: A Lizzy Ballard Thriller (Book 2)
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She thought she was safe …
… but even a continent away is not far enough to hide her from her enemies. Will she be able to evade a killer’s search? Lizzy is on the run after her fatal game of rock-paper-scissors with those behind the Vivantem fertility clinic’s nefarious experiments. She finds herself in the Red Rock Country of Arizona … and finds a mentor in a man with his own dark past. While Lizzy works to control her deadly ability, the Vivantem forces are hot on her trail, and Lizzy's power will be no defense against the weapon they have chosen. Then Vivantem strikes at the one person whose life means more to Lizzy than her own, and in a bid to protect her dwindling band of allies, she takes the fight to the enemy’s camp. In this deadly game of snakes and ladders, will Lizzy be rewarded for her virtues or punished for her vices? Find out now in this second installment of the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers Trilogy! |
“Dalrymple’s works always hang together in the most thrilling and satisfying ways, and Snakes and Ladders is no exception. Snakes and Ladders should be at the top of everyone’s reading list.” —Robert Blake Whitehill, Screenwriter and Best-selling Author of The Ben Blackshaw Series
“Dalrymple has upped her game in this chilling, riveting, compulsively page-turning thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you gasping for breath and desperate for more.” —Lisa Regan, Bestselling author of Vanishing Girls
“Dalrymple has upped her game in this chilling, riveting, compulsively page-turning thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you gasping for breath and desperate for more.” —Lisa Regan, Bestselling author of Vanishing Girls
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The Iron Ring: A Lizzy Ballard Thriller (Book 3)
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She has a promise to fulfill …
… but she never anticipated the evil that awaited her at the end of her journey. Will keeping her word cost her everything? Lizzy Ballard is headed to the Red Rock Country of Arizona on a mission of vengeance … and although she doesn’t know it yet, the Vivantem forces are no longer her biggest problem. She and her allies have attracted the attention of a reclusive billionaire, a man who is determined to enlist them to his own cause … willingly or unwillingly. Even Lizzy’s enemies at Vivantem seem to be no match for his power. With the lines of communication cut, Lizzy struggles to understand exactly who the enemy is. And when Lizzy faces the killer, even her special ability can't protect her. Will Lizzy grab the iron ring, or be left on the field of battle? Find out now in this third installment of the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers Trilogy! |
“Dalrymple gives a master class in how to raise the stakes for her complex, well-drawn characters as they fight to disentangle themselves from impossible situations.” —Lisa Regan, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Crime Fiction Author
“The venomous psychopath and the unctuous megalomaniac in "The Iron Ring" are formidably harrowing new foes. All the blistering trials that Dalrymple, a most diabolical plotter, subjects Lizzy Ballard to would corrupt even the most sterling of characters, and readers will be left wondering if this big-hearted heroine can resist the temptation to wreak a little havoc of her own.” —Robert Blake Whitehill, Author, The Ben Blackshaw Series
“The venomous psychopath and the unctuous megalomaniac in "The Iron Ring" are formidably harrowing new foes. All the blistering trials that Dalrymple, a most diabolical plotter, subjects Lizzy Ballard to would corrupt even the most sterling of characters, and readers will be left wondering if this big-hearted heroine can resist the temptation to wreak a little havoc of her own.” —Robert Blake Whitehill, Author, The Ben Blackshaw Series
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The Sense of Death: An Ann Kinnear Suspense Novel (Book 1)
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Ann Kinnear has created a peaceful existence at her cabin in the Adirondack woods. But the calm is shattered after Philadelphia socialite Elizabeth Firth is reported missing.
With few clues and fewer options, detective Joe Booth calls upon Ann's spirit sensing ability to help solve the mystery. With Joe and her brother Mike, Ann attempts to uncover what Elizabeth's husband may be hiding beneath his cloak of wealth and privilege. As Ann is drawn deeper into a web of lies and betrayal, she realizes she may be racing against time to keep herself from disappearing too. “Airtight. Crucial plot details lock into place in the denouement like the tumblers of a Diebold safe. The characters are clever, real, and enjoyable, but also organic, their emotional genuinely wrought; there is no formula for brilliant writing like this.” —Robert Blake Whitehill, Screenwriter and Best-selling Author of The Ben Blackshaw Series |
“A frighteningly meticulous villain and a formidable protagonist will have readers breezing through the pages.” —Kirkus Reviews
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The Sense of Reckoning: An Ann Kinnear Suspense Novel (Book 2)
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After solving the Philadelphia Socialite murder, Ann Kinnear should be riding high. Instead, she's depressed and considering abandoning her spirit sensing business. To add to her problems, Ann has suffered a series of injuries to her hands—could these be the ghostly repercussions of the violence that ended her last case?
Ann goes to Maine to solicit help from fellow spirit senser Garrick Masser. Ann and Garrick find more trouble than they bargained for in a tale of obsession and misplaced loyalty that has its roots in a crumbling summer hotel, international art theft, and the historic wildfire that destroyed large swaths of Mount Desert Island in 1947. Unless Ann can fit together the pieces of the past while staying ahead of whatever—or whomever—is causing her harm, her future, and that of her friend Garrick, may be very brief indeed. |
“The ending offers a thorough resolution but not before hitting a few genuinely surprising plot twists. A book that proves just as keen and charming as its characters.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Crisp, fresh, and spooky. Dalrymple's depiction of the great Bar Harbor Fire of 1947 is so exactly and emotionally rendered, I could feel the blastsof heat from the pages.” —Robert Blake Whitehill, Screenwriter and Best-selling Author of The Ben Blackshaw Series
“Crisp, fresh, and spooky. Dalrymple's depiction of the great Bar Harbor Fire of 1947 is so exactly and emotionally rendered, I could feel the blastsof heat from the pages.” —Robert Blake Whitehill, Screenwriter and Best-selling Author of The Ben Blackshaw Series
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Close These Eyes: An Ann Kinnear Suspense Short
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Although an icy January wind knifes through the streets of Southwest Harbor, Maine, Ann Kinnear is snug in the warmth of her favorite Mount Desert Island bar. But when an overheard conversation draws her to the town docks, Ann finds trouble. Will she have the strength to save a young woman from a threatening presence only Ann can perceive?
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Write in Water: An Ann Kinnear Suspense Short
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A suspect suicide note. A dinghy washed up on the rocky Maine coast. An angry man determined to send his dead wife a message. Ann Kinnear travels to an isolated island in Blue Hill Bay to convey that message ... and discovers the private truth behind the public story of a death on the water.
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May Violets Spring: An Ann Kinnear Suspense Short
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Childhood memories flood Ann Kinnear as she enters St. Andrew's on the night before Easter. But this time, she's a hired hand with a mysterious assignment. When she learns what that assignment is, she's pretty sure she's not the person ordained for the job—but she finds her shaky confidence in human nature bolstered by the tale that unfolds against a backdrop of misplaced guilt and the true meaning of faithfulness. Not a traditional Easter story ... and likely not the right pick for readers looking for Christian lit!
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All Deaths Endure: An Ann Kinnear Suspense Short
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A dilapidated mansion on Philadelphia's Main Line. A wedding day promise from decades ago. A love that even death can't end—or can it? Ann Kinnear has a yearly engagement for Valentine's Day, but it's not one she's looking forward to.
“So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life.” John Milton, Paradise Lost Available on Amazon and other online retailers.
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Our Dancing Days: An Ann Kinnear Suspense Short
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Ann Kinnear has been hired to contact the victim of a brutal killing—but who is she really speaking with?
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