{"product_id":"message-in-the-game-dawn-merriman-9798254685135","title":"Message in the Game: A small town psychic murder mystery","description":"It starts as a favor for a friend. It ends with Gabby McAllister fighting for her life.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Gabby's best friend Haley asks her to look into the disappearance of her online\u003cbr\u003egaming friend, it seems simple enough. A missing person. A worried friend. The kind of\u003cbr\u003ething Gabby handles quietly, away from cameras and press conferences.\u003cbr\u003eBut this case is different from the very first vision.\u003cbr\u003eSomeone is targeting the players of an online game - not in the virtual world, but in the\u003cbr\u003ereal one. One player is already dead. Another is missing. And what Gabby begins to\u003cbr\u003euncover is something so organized, so methodical, and so deliberately sinister that it\u003cbr\u003emakes every case she has ever worked feel like preparation for this one. The evil behind\u003cbr\u003ethis game is unlike anything River Bend has ever seen - and unlike anything Gabby's gift\u003cbr\u003ehas ever had to face.\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time in her life Gabby stands at a press conference as an official police\u003cbr\u003econsultant - the woman this town once called a freak, now representing the department\u003cbr\u003ein front of cameras. Dustin is fully and fiercely in her corner. Lucas is there, always loyal. The whole\u003cbr\u003ebeloved gang is there - Grandma Dot, Mrs. Mott, Lacey, Haley - every person who has\u003cbr\u003estood beside her through eight cases and one long hard-won journey from the edges of\u003cbr\u003eher community to the very center of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd then the game gets very, very personal\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eMessage in the Game is Book 9 in the bestselling Messages of Murder series. Each book\u003cbr\u003eis a complete standalone mystery - but this one ends with a revelation that will leave you\u003cbr\u003eabsolutely unable to breathe until Book 10. Your favorite characters. Higher stakes than\u003cbr\u003eever before. And an ending nobody sees coming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrap on a cracker. You are not ready for this one\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dawn Merriman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798254685135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Dawn Merriman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48588471304447,"sku":"9798254685135","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/message-in-the-game-dawn-merriman-9798254685135","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}