Be the One - Tapa blanda

Author of "Hugger Mugger"

Wonderfully told, powerfully exciting, and entirely engrossing.

"The Wall Street Journal"

The book has many sizzling scenes and a strong finish....No one will leave this ball park of a novel without a satisfied grin.

"USA Today Baseball Weekly"

April Smith has followed the rules of well-crafted fictionand made up a few of her own to make "Be The One" absorbing summertime reading.

"The Washington Post"

In an edgy thriller set in the cutthroat world of pro baseball, April Smith masterfully builds to a score-tied, bases-loaded, full-count moment of white-knuckle tension

"The New York Times"

A tingling and pungent entertainment, anchored in good characters and authentic-seeming situations...."Be The One," as they say of ballplayers past their rookie season, shows that she is no flash in the pan.

"The New York Times" A tingling and pungent entertainment, anchored in good characters and authentic-seeming situations...."Be The One", as they say of ballplayers past their rookie season, shows that she is no flash in the pan.

"The Denver Post" You'd swear she was born with a bat in hand. Artfully avoiding the sophomore jinx, Smith has definitely rounded second with "Be The One".

Robert B. Parker Author of "Hugger Mugger" Wonderfully told, powerfully exciting, and entirely engrossing.

Robert Crais Author of "Demolition Angel" Peopled with characters as perfectly rendered as a hundred-mile-an-hour fastball, "Be The One" is a brilliant, original crime novel....April Smith has hit this one out of the park.