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The Sixth Idea

Pages
322
Published
2016
Language
English

Synopsis

The Monkeewrench crew returns in a twisty, heart-stopping new thriller. 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.

About the author

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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...