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 ..
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
LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan is struggling to move forward after the death of
her brother in Afghanistan and taking a life in the line of duty. Her stoic
parents offer little support - they refuse to address anything difficult, and
she's afraid their relationship is eroding beyond the point of recovery.
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 . . . And 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, a 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?, P.J. Tracy's Live Bait is an electrifying thriller that explores the chilling extremes of evil and retribution.
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.
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.
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
When the murdered bodies of two Minneapolis police officers are discovered in the aftermath of a snowman-building contest, detectives Magozzi and Rolseth become embroiled in an investigation that is complicated by an inexperienced sheriff
"Sam Easton--a true survivor--is home from Afghanistan, trying to rebuild a life in his hometown of LA. Separated from his wife, bartending and therapy sessions are what occupy his days and nights. When friend and colleague Melody Traeger is beaten by her boyfriend, she turns to Sam for help. When the boyfriend turns up dead the next day, a hard case like Sam is the perfect suspect. But LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, whose brother recently died serving overseas, is sympathetic to Sam's troubles, and can't quite see him as a killer. She's more interested in the secrets Melody might be keeping and the developments in another murder case on the other side of town. Set in an LA where real people live and work--not the superficial LA of Beverly Hills or the gritty underbelly of the city--Deep into the Dark features two really engaging, dynamic main characters and explores the nature of obsession, revenge, and grief."
On a sailboat ten miles off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in Monkeewrench Software, thwarts an assassination attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. A few hours later, in Minneapolis, a fifteen-year-old girl is discovered in a vacant lot, her throat slashed. Later that day, two young men are found in their home a few blocks away, killed execution-style. The next morning, the dead bodies of three more men turn up, savagely murdered in the same neighborhood. As Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth struggle to link the three crimes, they learn that there have been similar murders in other cities around the United States. Piece by piece, evidence accumulates, pointing to a suspect that shocks them to the core, uncovering a motive that puts the entire Midwest on high alert and Monkeewrench in the direct line of fire. Before it's all over, Grace and her partners, Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, find themselves in the middle of a shocking collision of violence on a remote northern Minnesota reservation, fighting for their lives..
