P.J. TRACY

*US edition title: THE SIXTH IDEA* Gino and Magozzi return in this latest thriller from best-selling author P. J. Tracy The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles apart, dramatically concluding winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find two dead men in her basement. When Leo and Gino discover her connection to their current cases, they suspect that she is a target, too. The same day, an elderly, terminally ill man is kidnapped from his home, an Alzheimer's patient goes missing from his care facility, and a baffling link among all the crimes emerges. This series of inexplicable events sends the detectives sixty years into the past to search for answers-and straight to Grace MacBride's Monkeewrench, a group of eccentric computer geniuses who devote their time and resources to helping the cops solve the unsolvable. What they find is an unimaginable horror-a dormant Armageddon that might be activated at any moment unless Grace and her partners Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, along with Leo and Gino, can find a way to stop it. PRAISE FOR P. J. TRACY: 'Outrageously suspenseful' Harlan Coben 'A fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twists' Guardian 'A truly brilliant crime thriller, fast-paced and edgy, full of deception and retribution with the essential incredible twist!' Newmarket Journal '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 'Eclectic characters and zingy dialogue ...exhilarating' People 'All of the elements that made the previous books under the Tracy banner so successful are in evidence in Two Evils...plotting of immense ingenuity and the authors' gift for genuinely speakable, sardonic dialogue' welovethisbook.com

A serial killer is terrifying enough, but when the murder videos begin showing up online well, then it becomes an issue for computer analyst Grace MacBride and her eccentric crew of geniuses and mavericks. Recruited by the FBI, MacBride, along with Minneapolis cops Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth, work together to hunt down the killer. Using sophisticated tracking software, MacBride and her team scour the internet for signs of a possible attack, trying to weed out the staged videos from the real thing in hopes of finding a pattern. But bodies keep turning up, and videos keep being posted, and the team is getting desperate to save lives. It''s not until they come across a sinister website that a real lead is discovered. And it takes them all the way to a shocking conclusion . . .

"In the enjoyable fifth Monkeewrench thriller (after Snow Blind) from Tracy, the mother-daughter writing team of Patricia J. and Traci Lambrecht, special agent John Smith of the FBI's cyber crimes unit seeks the help of cybersleuths Grace MacBride, Annie Belinsky, and their geeky associates — as well as Minneapolis, Minn., homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth — in solving a horrifying string of murders filmed for the Web. The Monkeewrench team must create a program that can separate staged death scenes from the real thing. The first death they scrutinize appears to be the drowning murder of a Minneapolis drag queen. 'A stabbing, two shootings, and a strangulation' are among subsequent killings that occur in other cities across the country. They catch a break when the eighth victim, a Medford, Ore., waitress, survives a stabbing. Newcomers will have no trouble getting into the story, and everyone will appreciate the likable characters. Author tour." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Grace MacBride y Annie Belinsky, fundadoras de Monkeewrench, una empresa informática que presta sus servicios a la policía, acompañadas de Sharon Mueller, una agente del FBI, viajan a Green Bay con el fin de seguir la pista de un nuevo asesino en serie. Pero sufren una averia en su coche en una zona boscosa aparentemente alejada de cualquier tipo de civilizacion. Llegan a la poblacion de Four Corners, donde esperan poder hallar a alguien que les ayude; sin embargo, lo que encuentran es una ciudad fantasma donde seran testigos de un brutal doble asesinato. A partir de ese momento emprenden una huida incierta para salvar sus vidas. Mientras tanto, en el resto del grupo Monkeewrench crece la inquietud por la desaparicion de las mujeres, y con la compañia de los detectives Leo Magozzi y Gino Rolseth, inician una busqueda a ciegas, sin pistas ni señales.

US edition title: THE SIXTH IDEA* Gino and Magozzi return in this latest thriller from best-selling author P. J. Tracy The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles apart, dramatically concluding winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find two dead men in her basement. When Leo and Gino discover her connection to their current cases, they suspect that she is a target, too. The same day, an elderly, terminally ill man is kidnapped from his home, an Alzheimer's patient goes missing from his care facility, and a baffling link among all the crimes emerges. This series of inexplicable events sends the detectives sixty years into the past to search for answers-and straight to Grace MacBride's Monkeewrench, a group of eccentric computer geniuses who devote their time and resources to helping the cops solve the unsolvable. What they find is an unimaginable horror-a dormant Armageddon that might be activated at any moment unless Grace and her partners Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, along with Leo and Gino, can find a way to stop it. PRAISE FOR P. J. TRACY: 'Outrageously suspenseful' Harlan Coben 'A fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twists' Guardian 'A truly brilliant crime thriller, fast-paced and edgy, full of deception and retribution with the essential incredible twist!' Newmarket Journal '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 'Eclectic characters and zingy dialogue ...exhilarating' People 'All of the elements that made the previous books under the Tracy banner so successful are in evidence in Two Evils...plotting of immense ingenuity and the authors' gift for genuinely speakable, sardonic dialogue' welovethisbook.com

The Guilty Dead is the ninth book in P.J. Tracy''s addictive and internationally bestselling Twin Cities series.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 . . .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

The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles apart, dramatically concluding winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth.An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find two dead men in her basement. When Leo and Gino discover her connection to their current cases, they suspect that she is a target, too. The same day, an elderly, terminally ill man is kidnapped from his home, an Alzheimer''s patient goes missing from his care facility, and a baffling link among all the crimes emerges.This series of inexplicable events sends the detectives sixty years into the past to search for answers--and straight to Grace MacBride''s Monkeewrench, a group of eccentric computer geniuses who devote their time and resources to helping the cops solve the unsolvable. What they find is an unimaginable horror--a dormant Armageddon that might be activated at any moment unless Grace and her partners Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, along with Leo and Gino, can find a way to stop it.

Two bodies are found in the snowmen, and a day later, in a nearby county, rookie sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similar discovery. Soon Detectives Gino and Magozzi are heading north in the midst of the worst blizzard seen in Minneapolis for years to join the two investigations.

It should have been a simple journey: a drive from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin. But a couple of unplanned detours lead Grace MacBride, Annie Belinsky, and police Deputy Sharon Mueller deep into the northern woods, far from civilization and a mobile phone signal. Then the car breaks down. The nervous search for a landline and a mechanic leads the women to Four Corners, a sleepy crossroads town. And place they soon wish they''d never stumbled on - because something terrible happened in Four Corners...Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace, and rich vivid characters as Want to Play? and Live Bait, Dead Run firmly establishes PJ Tracy as one of the most exciting thriller writers in the world.

Tras resolver el caso de la compañía de software Monkeewrench, los detectives Leo Magozzi y Gino Roselth llevan un tiempo sin ningún caso de homicidio que investigar, hasta que les llega la noticia del asesinato de Morey Gilbert, a quien su esposa, Lily, acaba de encontrar tumbado, con una bala en el craneo, en el invernadero de su casa. ¿Quien ha podido acabar con la vida de este respetable anciano al que todo el mundo parecia adorar? Entre los sospechosos figuran no solo la mujer del muerto, que se muestra extrañamente irritable con la policia, sino tambien su yerno, Marty Pullman, y su hijo, la unica persona con la que Morey no se hablaba.Como si de un juego de domino se tratara, a este homicidio siguen otros, que comparten unas caracteristicas similares: ademas de presentar un mismo metodo, las victimas siempre son ancianos. Algun tipo de secreta conexion entre estas se les escapa a los dos detectives, que trabajan contrareloj para tratar de adelantarse al asesino. Grace McBride, la guapa fundadora de Monkeewrench, volvera a colaborar con ellos.¿Podran los tres, con la ayuda de los mas sofisticados sistemas de busqueda informatica, descubrir la pieza que resuelve el rompecabezas?Despues de Jegos de asesinos, y con algunos de sus protagonistas, el equipo de madre e hija que se esconde tras el seudonomo P.J. Tracy vuelve a sorprendernos con este thriller electrizante que no da tregua al lector.

Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are bored-the Twin Cities have been in a murder-free dry spell. But when elderly Morey Gilbert is found dead, the crime drought ends. And the detectives are ready for some help-from Grace McBride and her offbeat crew at a little software company called Monkeewrench.

In this electrifying debut, the slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to stop a sickeningly inventive serial killer striking again in a city paralysed by fear. When the two separate investigations converge on an isolated catholic boarding school, decades old secrets begin to fall away. It seems an old killer has resurfaced. Yet still the killer's real identity remains dangerously out of reach ...

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Cuando los directivos de la compañía de software Monkeewrench se dan cuenta de que un criminal está reproduciendo los asesinatos de uno de sus juegos de ordenador, no se lo pueden creer. Una mujer joven y un corredor ya han muerto y ellos, especialmente su fundadora, Grace McBrade se encuentra en una disyuntiva: o bien habla con la policia, o bien deja que Monkeewrench sea acusada de inspirar y propiciar los asesinatos. Desesperados por evitar mas muertes, Grace y su equipo estudian a las victimas de su videojuego para intentar averiguar quien sera el proximo. Lo que ellos no saben es que el detective de homicidio de Mineapolis, Leo Magozzi, anda tras ellos porque ha descubierto que las identidades de McBride y sus colegas son inventadas por razones que el FBI no quiere comentar, pero que Magozzi ha descubierto que los relacionan con otra serie de asesinatos una decada antes en Atlanta.