Book Review - Dead Run by P. J. Tracy
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Gotta love when you rediscover an author you like, and you find out they have put out a few books in your absence. In this case, it's Dead Run by the mother/daughter writing team of P. J. Tracy. The Monkeewrench crew is back, and this time they're trying to save one of their own...
Grace MacBride and Annie Belinsky (along with one other female deputy) head off to Green Bay to lay the groundwork for their crime software to track down a potential killer. But they never quite make it there when their SUV breaks down. A relatively short walk takes them into a town in the middle of nowhere, called Four Corners. The problem is that there's nobody there... it's like everyone has up and vanished. Except for the armed military guards on the perimeter of the town, killing anyone who happens to slip through the line. Watching someone get gunned down convinces the women that they need to lay low, but their SUV was found and now they need to be eliminated. All this is taking place in a cell phone "dead zone", so their failure to show up in Green Bay quickly gets the rest of the Monkeewrench crew (as well as Magozzi and Rolseth) into panic mode to track down their partners and solve the mystery of Four Corners. And once the mystery of their disappearance is becoming more clear, everyone realizes the danger isn't over, and the stakes are even higher than they imagined...
This Monkeewrench novel concentrates more on the team than on the two detectives (Magozzi and Rolseth), and that's just fine. There's a bit more technical wizardry in this installment, and the plotline had really good pacing. The images of Belinsky (the queen-sized fashion queen) having to survive on the run (and in the dirt) were comical, and it was great fun to keep reading to see what would happen next...
I hated when this one ended, but it was tempered with the knowledge I'm now on the hold list for the newest novel by Tracy. I hope it arrives pretty soon...
Gotta love when you rediscover an author you like, and you find out they have put out a few books in your absence. In this case, it's Dead Run by the mother/daughter writing team of P. J. Tracy. The Monkeewrench crew is back, and this time they're trying to save one of their own...
Grace MacBride and Annie Belinsky (along with one other female deputy) head off to Green Bay to lay the groundwork for their crime software to track down a potential killer. But they never quite make it there when their SUV breaks down. A relatively short walk takes them into a town in the middle of nowhere, called Four Corners. The problem is that there's nobody there... it's like everyone has up and vanished. Except for the armed military guards on the perimeter of the town, killing anyone who happens to slip through the line. Watching someone get gunned down convinces the women that they need to lay low, but their SUV was found and now they need to be eliminated. All this is taking place in a cell phone "dead zone", so their failure to show up in Green Bay quickly gets the rest of the Monkeewrench crew (as well as Magozzi and Rolseth) into panic mode to track down their partners and solve the mystery of Four Corners. And once the mystery of their disappearance is becoming more clear, everyone realizes the danger isn't over, and the stakes are even higher than they imagined...
This Monkeewrench novel concentrates more on the team than on the two detectives (Magozzi and Rolseth), and that's just fine. There's a bit more technical wizardry in this installment, and the plotline had really good pacing. The images of Belinsky (the queen-sized fashion queen) having to survive on the run (and in the dirt) were comical, and it was great fun to keep reading to see what would happen next...
I hated when this one ended, but it was tempered with the knowledge I'm now on the hold list for the newest novel by Tracy. I hope it arrives pretty soon...
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hows it hanging?
Posted by matthew At 01:17:39 On 08/11/2006 | - Website - |