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Monkeewrench

Monkeewrench

CrimeMystery
Pages
432
Published
2004
Language
English

Synopsis

In Minneapolis, reclusive software designer Grace MacBride and her "oddball crew" at Monkeewrench have built a video game, Serial Killer Detective, in which the killer is always caught and the good guys always win. Then someone starts recreating the game's murders in real life, and homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth find themselves racing a killer who is always one step ahead. Meanwhile, in the small Catholic community of Calumet, Wisconsin, the shooting deaths of a reclusive elderly couple draws Sheriff Michael Halloran into a seemingly separate case that turns out to be anything but. As the two investigations converge, they expose a violent secret from Grace MacBride's own past. The Anthony and Barry Award-winning debut that launched the Monkeewrench series, published in the UK as "Want to Play?"

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

TenseMysterious
Mystery Box

Genres

Crime Mystery Thriller Police Procedural Suspense

About the author

P
P. J. Tracy

P. J. Tracy is the pseudonym of an American mother-daughter writing team, Patricia "P.J." Lambrecht (April 18, 1946 – December 21, 2016) and her daughter Traci Lambrecht, both of Minnesota. Together they wrote the Monkeewrench crime-thriller series, beginning with "Monkeewrench" (2003, published in the UK as "Want to Play?"), and won the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe and Minnesota Book Awards. After Patricia's death in 2016, Traci Lambrecht has continued to write under the shared pen name alone, compl...