P. J. TRACY

Gregory Norwood, wealthy businessman and close friend of Minnesota''s leading candidate for Governor, is found dead on the first anniversary of his son''s drug overdose. It seems clear to Detectives Gino and Magozzi that grief drove him to suicide. Until they realise the left-handed man seems to have used his right hand to pull the trigger.And they find the second body.As the seemingly open-and-shut case becomes a murder enquiry, the detectives begin to delve into the dark secrets of one of the city''s most powerful families. It seems the murders are not the first in the Norwoods'' tragic story - and they won''t be the last . . .

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DISCOVER THE GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING TWIN CITIES SERIESSupercharged storytelling DAILY MAIL________ A young woman is murdered in a park in Minneapolis. When detectives Gino and Magozzi discover a playing card near the body, they recognise the work of a serial killer who has already struck the city once before. But its worse than they imagined. The card is the four of spades the last victims was an ace: it seems theyre already two murders behind. Once again working with Grace MacBride and her team of analysts, they discover a web of evidence stretching back into the past.And there is little time to untangle it:This killer has a taste for blood, and hes intent on playing out the deck . . .________ PRAISE FOR P. J. TRACY: Outrageously suspenseful Harlan Coben A fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twists Guardian A powerful thriller and an ingenious plot Observer Review Some of the best new blood work in the genre . . . Scary funny, witty, and genuinely perplexing right to the end Glasgow Herald

As the nights draw in so the killings begin... A missing girl is found dead in a parking lot, her throat cut. Two young immigrants are gunned down in their apartment. And with each passing day the body count rises... For Minneapolis homicide detectives Gino and Magozzi it seems that this autumn the bodies are falling faster than the leaves.

Off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in software company Monkeewrench, thwarts an assassination attempt on a retired FBI agent. A few hours afterward in Minneapolis, a young girls throat is slashed. Later that day, two men are killed execution style. Minneapolis Homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth struggle to link the three crimes, but the wave of murders across the country has only just begun. Piece by piece, evidence accumulates, pointing to a suspectand a motivethat shocks them to the core. It puts the entire Midwest on high alert...and Monkeewrench in the line of fire.

The latest intense and fast-paced Monkeewrench police procedural thriller, from New York Timesbestselling author P. J. Tracy (Library Journal)!Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth join Grace MacBride and Monkeewrench to uncover a dark and ugly conspiracy that reaches deep into the safety of homes . . . Its a bitter winter in Minnesotatoo cold to kill. There hasnt been a murder for a month, but the lull quickly comes to an end for Detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth, when theyre called to the gruesome homicide of Kelly Ramage. Found in a friends vacant house, this was no random attack, and clues reveal that she was living a very dangerous secret life. Magozzi and Gino trace her steps back to an art gallery where she was last seen alive. The gallery seems like a dead end, but the art is disturbing and exploitative. It may very well be inspiring a sadistic killer, because in this instance, art doesnt imitate life, it imitates death. Tipped off about a year-old murder that is a mirror-image of Kellys crime scene, Gino and Magozzi enlist the aid of Grace MacBride and her eccentric, tech genius partners in Monkeewrench Software to help them decipher the digital trail that might connect the cases. As coincidences emerge, Magozzi, Gino, and the team have to work around the clock at breakneck pace to unravel a series of clues that form the framework of a larger, more sweeping, and insidious conspiracy than any of them could have imagined. Is Kelly the last person to die or just the most recent? And is there any way to stop it?

The Monkeewrench team is back in a brand-new nail-biting thriller from New York Times bestselling author P. J. Tracy.Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth arrest a sadistic pair of killers for the murder of several women with the help of Monkeewrench, their eccentric, cyber-sleuth friends and partners. One of the killers dies in custody and the other, Wolfgang Mauer, is sent to a maximum security mental hospital in a rural corner of Minnesota. There, Mauer plots his escapeand his vengeance. With the help of his mother, a former militia leader and assassin living an extravagant, reclusive life, he schemes to get out of the mental hospital and hunt down the detectives and the Monkeewrench crew that got him a life sentence.When Mauer successfully escapes, an inexperienced county sheriff is thrown head-first into a massive manhunt for the murderer. When she finds three bodies and discovers that Mauer has kidnapped a young boy, she realizes that Mauers escape was just the beginning. With many lives on the line, Magozzi, Gino, and Monkeewrench join in the desperate search effort. The longer hes at large, the more people will die, and Mauer is on a mission to find those who sentenced him, so they all have targets on their backs.

New York Times bestselling authorDead men tell no talesbut their pasts cant keep a secretin this suspenseful, fast-paced Monkeewrench crime thriller (Catherine Coulter, author of the FBI Thrillers) Gregory Norwood is Minnesotas most beloved philanthropist, and the story of his sons overdose was splashed across the front page of all the papers. When a photojournalist sets out to get a candid shot of the highly successful businessman on the one year anniversary of his sons death, hes shocked to find Norwood dead with a smoking gun in his hand. The city is devastated, and Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called in to handle the delicate case. It should be open and shut, but something is not right. Norwoods death is no suicide. With no suspects and an increasing tangle of digital evidence that confounds the Minneapolis Police Departments most seasoned cops, Magozzi calls on Grace MacBride, Monkeewrench Softwares founder and chief computer genius and the soon to be mother of their child together. She and her motley crew of partners begin to unravel connections between Norwoods death and an even larger plot. Norwood wasnt the first, wont be the last, and by the end, may be just one of many to die. The breakneck, high stakes race to find his killer and save the lives of hundreds make P. J. Tracys The Guilty Dead her most outstanding novel yet.

People are dying for the new computer game by the software company Monkeewrench. Literally. With Serial Killer Detective out in limited release, the real-life murders of a jogger and a young woman have already mimicked the first two scenarios in the game.But Grace McBride and her eccentric Monkeewrench partners are caught in a vise. If they tell the Minneapolis police of the link between their game and the murders, theyll shine a spotlight on the past they thought they had erased-and the horror they thought theyd left behind. If they dont, eighteen more people will die...

THE GRIPPING AND TWISTY THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY BESTSELLER P. J. TRACYA violent murder. An ice-cold killer . . . On a bitterly cold winter night, Kelly Ramage leaves her suburban home, telling her husband shes going to meet a friend. But she never comes back. When her body is discovered, murdered in what seems to be a sex game gone horribly wrong, Detectives Gino and Magozzi take the case, expecting to find a flirtatious trail leading straight to the killer. However, Kellys sinister lover has done a disturbingly good job of hiding his identity. This isnt his first victim.And she wont be the last . . .__________Praise for P. J. TracyOutrageously suspensefulHarlan CobenA powerful thriller and an ingenious plotObserverA thrilling page-turner with a nail-biting finishSunday TelegraphSnappy dialogue and supercharged storytelling, with thrills and spills aplentyDaily Mail

Warm your heart this Christmas with this wonderful festive tale from bestselling author P.J. Tracy - perfect for fans of Its a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street.Emil Rice has a silver tongue and sticky fingers, the only problem is that his charm always gets him into trouble and hes never been very good at not getting arrested. Twenty-two times hes been caught and twenty-two times hes sworn never to steal again, but its on his twenty-third arrest when Emil realises he may have picked up more than he bargained for. Sentenced to community service at a secure mental health facility, Emil is unwillingly befriended by two elderly female patients who believe he is the final part of a big cosmic plan that will change their lives forever... This heartwarming Christmas tale of kindness, friendship and redemption will be perfect for the cold winter nights!

*US EDITION TITLE: OFF THE GRID*Two Evils is the sixth book in P.J. Tracys bestselling Twin Cities series.As the nights draw in so the killings begin...A missing girl is found dead in a parking lot, her throat cut. Two young immigrants are gunned down in their apartment. And with each passing day the body count rises...For Minneapolis homicide detectives Gino and Magozzi it seems that this autumn the bodies are falling faster than the leaves. With few leads to go on, yet evidence that these killings are linked to others taking place in other cities, the pair turn to Grace McBride, maverick computer analyst. What Grace uncovers forces Gino and Magozzi to make a dreadful and fateful choice: down which twisted path does the lesser of two evils lie...P.J. Tracys cult thriller characters Grace MacBride and Detectives Gino and Magozzi are back once again in the sixth book in the Monkeewrench series. Follow their journeys in the rest of the series: Want to Play?,Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind and Play to Kill.Praise for P.J. Tracy:Outrageously suspenseful Harlan CobenA fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twistsGuardianA powerful thriller and an ingenious plotObserver P.J. Tracy is the pseudonynm for the mother-and-daughter writing team of P.J. and Traci Lambrecht. They are the authors of the award-winning and best-selling thrillers Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Play to Kill, Two Evils and the Richard and Judy Book Club pick Want to Play?. All six books feature detectives Gino and Magozzi and maverick computer hacker Grace MacBride. P.J. and Traci both live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. www.pjtracy.net

*US edition title: THE SIXTH IDEA*Cold Kill is the seventh book in P.J. Tracys bestselling Twin Cities series.Two dead bodies.On a cold winters night in Minneapolis, two friends are brutally murdered on opposite sides of the city. Its clear to homicide detectives Gino and Magozzi that the men were targets - but why?A decades-old conspiracy.As Gino and Magozzi begin to uncover evidence, the clues rapidly start to disappear. Lost websites and missing CCTV footage lead them once more to Grace MacBride and her eccentric team of computer analysts - the only ones who can help. A deadly attack that could bring a city to its knees.But as more bodies appear, the team begin to realize that this isnt fresh blood - this is a case that stretches back sixty years. And something that has been lying dormant is now awakening.As Gino and Magozzi race to find answers, they slowly uncover an unimaginable horror: one that they must stop if any of them are to get out alive . . .PRAISE FOR P. J. TRACY:Outrageously suspensefulHarlan CobenA fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twistsGuardian A powerful thriller and an ingenious plotObserver ReviewScary funny, witty, and genuinely perplexing right to the endGlasgow Herald Eclectic characters and zingy dialogue . . . exhilaratingPeopleFilled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich vivid characters as in previous novels, Cold Kill is the new gripping instalment in the internationally bestselling Monkeewrench series. Follow the characters journeys in the rest of the series: Want to Play?,Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Play to Kill and Two Evils.

Play to Kill by P.J. Tracy is the fifth novel in the bestselling Twin Cities crime series.Call it murdertube...Minneapolis homicide cops Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth fish a murdered drag queen out of the Mississippi. Another day, another corpse. Except the victims death throes quickly appear in a video posted online. And there are other videos, other murders. Unable to trace who is posting the videos, the cops turn to Grace MacBride and her crew of eccentric computer mavericks. But as the bodies and videos stack up, the team desperately try and answer a terrifying question:Is this the work of a lone individual? Or of several killers who have taken social networking to the darkest extreme...P.J. Tracys cult thriller characters Grace MacBride and Detectives Gino and Magozzi are back for more in the fifth book in the Monkeewrench series. Follow their journeys in the rest of the series:Want to Play?,Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind and Two Evils.Praise for P.J. Tracy:A thrilling page-turner with a nail-biting finishSunday TelegraphP.J. Tracy is about to become a household nameDaily MirrorP.J. Tracy is the pseudonynm for the mother-and-daughter writing team of P.J. and Traci Lambrecht. They are the authors of the award-winning and best-selling thrillers Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Play to Kill, Two Evils and the Richard and Judy Book Club pick Want to Play?. All six books feature detectives Gino and Magozzi and maverick computer hacker Grace MacBride. P.J. and Traci both live near Minneapolis, Minnesota.www.pjtracy.net

Snow Blind is the fourth book in P.J. Tracys bestselling Twin Cities series.The Dead of Winter... Minneapolis, winters first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a ghoulish surprise.First, the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen and then a day later, in the countryside to the north, Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similarly shocking discovery. Soon Detectives Gino and Magozzi are sent north through the worst blizzard Minnesotas seen for years to find what else links the investigations.But some secrets you dont want to uncover. And as the cases unravel, it seems snowmen arent the only ones with something to hide...P.J. Tracys cult thriller characters Grace MacBride and Detectives Gino and Magozzi are back for more in the fourth book in the Monkeewrench series. Follow their journeys in the rest of the series:Want to Play?,Live Bait, Dead Run, Play to Kill and Two Evils.Praise for P.J. Tracy:A fast-paced, gripping read with thrills and devilish twistsGuardianOutrageously suspenseful Harlan CobenP.J. Tracy is about to become a household nameDaily Mirror