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From Publishers Weekly
The mother-daughter mystery writing team known as P.J. Tracy produces another winner with this follow-up to 2003's lively Monkeewrench. After several homicide-free months in their hometown of St. Paul, wisecracking police detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are back in action when elderlyâ€"and much belovedâ€"gardener Morey Gilbert is found face up near his greenhouse with a bullet hole in his head. At first, the prime murder suspects are family members: Gilbert's estranged son, Jack, a slick personal injury lawyer, and Gilbert's dry-eyed widow, Lily, who discovered the corpseâ€"and moved it before the police arrived. When three more slayings follow, Magozzi and Rolseth discern disturbing common threads: each of the victims is over 80 andâ€"except for Arlen Fisher, shot in the arm and dragged onto the train tracks to face his doomâ€"Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps. Critical clues, including a gun traced to murders around the globe, surface as straitlaced detectives Aaron Langer and Johnny McLaren join the more offbeat Magozzi and Rolseth on the case. Tracy serves up punchy prose and quirky characters, from a sartorially challenged police chief to a plump, shrewd crime tech named Grimm. Romance for bachelor Magozzi arrives in the form of Grace MacBride, a comely computer whiz whose sophisticated software program, FLEE, has helped crack countless cases. The courtship moves slowly despite undeniable sparks; MacBride is still haunted by Monkeewrenchâ€"the deadly case that first brought the two together and continues to hover like a cloud of doom. With her stash of high-tech research tools, including special face recognition software, MacBride delivers revelations about both victims and perpetrator, leading Magozzi and Rolseth toward the case's spine-chilling resolution. With generous doses of humor and suspense, this sharp, satisfying thriller will rivet readers from the start.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Putting Buck Schirner together with Tracy's' wisecracking, macho Minneapolis detectives, Leo and Gino, is a bang-up combination. Schirner's dry, raspy performance is in perfect sync with the emotions of the veteran cops caught up in the search for what may be two serial killers. Why would anyone kill Morey Gilbert, loved by hundreds in the Twin Cities for his acts of kindness and generosity, a man who survived a concentration camp only to be shot down in his own yard in his 80s? This follow-up to MONKEEWRENCH, the well-received first book by collaborators Patricia Lambrecht and Traci Lambrecht [P.J. Tracy] brings back many of the same characters, as well as the miraculous software they've invented for solving cold cases. This book stands alone, as well, with many fun twists and turns along the way. D.G. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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The mother-daughter mystery writing team known as P.J. Tracy produces another winner with this follow-up to 2003's lively Monkeewrench. After several homicide-free months in their hometown of St. Paul, wisecracking police detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are back in action when elderlyâ€"and much belovedâ€"gardener Morey Gilbert is found face up near his greenhouse with a bullet hole in his head. At first, the prime murder suspects are family members: Gilbert's estranged son, Jack, a slick personal injury lawyer, and Gilbert's dry-eyed widow, Lily, who discovered the corpseâ€"and moved it before the police arrived. When three more slayings follow, Magozzi and Rolseth discern disturbing common threads: each of the victims is over 80 andâ€"except for Arlen Fisher, shot in the arm and dragged onto the train tracks to face his doomâ€"Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps. Critical clues, including a gun traced to murders around the globe, surface as straitlaced detectives Aaron Langer and Johnny McLaren join the more offbeat Magozzi and Rolseth on the case. Tracy serves up punchy prose and quirky characters, from a sartorially challenged police chief to a plump, shrewd crime tech named Grimm. Romance for bachelor Magozzi arrives in the form of Grace MacBride, a comely computer whiz whose sophisticated software program, FLEE, has helped crack countless cases. The courtship moves slowly despite undeniable sparks; MacBride is still haunted by Monkeewrenchâ€"the deadly case that first brought the two together and continues to hover like a cloud of doom. With her stash of high-tech research tools, including special face recognition software, MacBride delivers revelations about both victims and perpetrator, leading Magozzi and Rolseth toward the case's spine-chilling resolution. With generous doses of humor and suspense, this sharp, satisfying thriller will rivet readers from the start.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From AudioFile
Putting Buck Schirner together with Tracy's' wisecracking, macho Minneapolis detectives, Leo and Gino, is a bang-up combination. Schirner's dry, raspy performance is in perfect sync with the emotions of the veteran cops caught up in the search for what may be two serial killers. Why would anyone kill Morey Gilbert, loved by hundreds in the Twin Cities for his acts of kindness and generosity, a man who survived a concentration camp only to be shot down in his own yard in his 80s? This follow-up to MONKEEWRENCH, the well-received first book by collaborators Patricia Lambrecht and Traci Lambrecht [P.J. Tracy] brings back many of the same characters, as well as the miraculous software they've invented for solving cold cases. This book stands alone, as well, with many fun twists and turns along the way. D.G. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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