MonkeewrenchSeries

This series delves into the world of the video game industry, exploring the dynamics of an innovative software company. It follows the triumphs and challenges of ambitious creators balancing cutting-edge technology with the realities of business. Readers can expect compelling narratives filled with strategic intrigue and personal stakes, reflecting the fast-paced evolution of modern tech and the human relationships at its core.

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Want to play?
P. J. Tracy
496 pages
18 hours of reading
4.2(10007)Add rating
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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Live Bait
P. J. Tracy
458 pages
17 hours of reading
4.1(5928)Add rating
When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless. Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past. Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich, vivid characters as the author's debut Want to Play?, PJ Tracy's Live Bait is an electrifying thriller that explores the chilling extremes of evil and retribution.
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Dead Run
P. J. Tracy
432 pages
16 hours of reading
4.0(5065)Add rating
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 in 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.
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Snow Blind
P. J. Tracy
4.0(5004)Add rating
The Dead of Winter... Minneapolis, winter�s first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a goulish 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 Minnesota�s seen for years to find what else links the investigations. But some secrets you don�t want to uncover. And as the cases unravel, it seems snowmen aren�t the only ones with something to hide �
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Play to Kill
P. J. Tracy
336 pages
12 hours of reading
3.7(426)Add rating
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 victim's 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. . .
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Two Evils
P. J. Tracy
305 pages
11 hours of reading
3.7(122)Add rating
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.
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Cold kill
P. J. Tracy
3.8(534)Add rating
"The 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 the winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. This series of inexplicable events sends the detectives sixty years into the past to search for answers - and straight to Grace MacBride's Monkeewrench. What they find is an unimaginable horror - a dormant Armageddon that might be activated at any moment unless Grace, along with Leo and Gino, can find a way to stop it."
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Nothing Stays Buried
P. J. Tracy
313 pages
11 hours of reading
4.0(138)Add rating
The 8th book of the popular Monkeewrench series. It's a hot June morning when homicide detectives Magozzi and Rolseth discover the body in the woods. And the playing card left with the victim points to something even more disturbing - the trademark of a serial killer, intent on playing out the deck. Meanwhile Grace MacBride has been working on a private missing person's investigation.
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The Guilty Dead
P. J. Tracy
320 pages
12 hours of reading
4.1(362)Add rating
The Guilty Dead is a cut above. The stakes are higher, and nothing is as it seems. This is Tracy at her gritty, elegant best. Do not miss it. JT Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of Lie to Me
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Ice Cold Heart
P. J. Tracy
384 pages
14 hours of reading
4.0(1315)Add rating
THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY BESTSELLER P. J. TRACY A violent murder. An ice-cold killer . . . On a bitterly cold winter night, Kelly Ramage leaves her suburban home, telling her husband she's 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, Kelly's sinister lover has done a disturbingly good job of hiding his identity. This isn't his first victim. And she won't be the last . . . Praise for P. J. Tracy 'Outrageously suspenseful' Harlan Coben 'A powerful thriller and an ingenious plot' Observer 'A thrilling page-turner with a nail-biting finish' Sunday Telegraph 'Snappy dialogue and supercharged storytelling, with thrills and spills aplenty' Daily Mail

Spiel unter Freunden. Der Köder
P. J. Tracy
4.1(15)Add rating
Spiel unter FreundenFünf befreundete Computerfreaks haben ihr Internet-Game "Fang den Serienkiller" online gestellt. Doch ein Spieler lässt die Morde zur grausamen Wirklichkeit werden. Detective Leo Magozzi und Gino Rolseth wissen: Das Spiel hat achtzehn Levels, und die Zeit drängt. In einem furiosen Showdown zeigt das Böse schließlich sein Gesicht.Der KöderIm verschlafenen St. Paul wird der achtzigjährige Morey Gilbert tot aufgefunden – mit einer Kugel im Kopf. Die Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel. Der Tote war allseits beliebt. Ein Mann ohne Feinde. Scheinbar. Noch bevor die Ermittlungen anlaufen, kommt es zu weiteren Morden. Das Muster ist immer gleich: Offenbar macht ein Psychopath Jagd auf jüdische Rentner. Die Stadt ist in Aufruhr, und den Detectives Magozzi und Rolseth läuft die Zeit davon. Denn der Mörder hat es eilig …