Off the Grid (Monkeewrench Series #6)

by P. J. Tracy

Overview

Off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in software company Monkeewrench, thwarts an assassination attempt on a retired FBI agent. A few hours afterward in Minneapolis, a young girl’s throat is slashed. Later that day, two men are killed execution style. Minneapolis Homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth struggle to link the three crimes, but the wave of murders across the country has only just begun. Piece by piece, evidence accumulates, pointing to a suspect—and a motive—that shocks them to the core. It puts the entire Midwest on high alert...and Monkeewrench in the line of fire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451418791
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/02/2013
Series:	Monkeewrench Series , #6
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

P. J. Tracy is the pseudonym of the mother-daughter writing team of Patricia Lambrecht and Traci Lambrecht. Winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book awards, they both live outside Minneapolis.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

If you haven’t been introduced to the Monkeewrench gang you are missing out … Tracy skillfully incorporates a diverse array of elements …while keeping the thrill level high and the writing sharp and frequently funny…. A top-notch title for series followers.
—Library Journal
“Exciting…The two main story lines converge in a gripping finale in the Minnesota woods.”
— Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

A writer who can walk that thin line between humor and serious crime.”—Chicago Tribune

P. J. Tracy “makes me jealous.”—Robert B. Parker

Praise for the Monkeewrench Novels
 
“[A] smart thriller.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“A killer read in every way.”—People
 
“Icicle-sharp.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Fast, fresh, funny, and outrageously suspenseful.”—Harlan Coben
 

From the Publisher

Amazing but true: The Monkeewrench gang, that misfit quartet of lovable cybergeeks who moonlight as the nemesis of Twin Cities serial killers, actually gets upstaged by the Minneapolis Police Department. Battered, paranoid Monkeewrench founder Grace MacBride's recuperative sailing trip through the Florida Keys with retired FBI desk-jockey John Smith is rudely interrupted by a pair of killers who climb aboard Smith's boat and start to cut his throat. Grace handily dispatches them both and rolls the bodies overboard, but she's seriously rattled to find Smith's particulars on one of them. Clearly these men weren't pirates, but assassins who specifically targeted her host. Back in Minneapolis, Ojibwe teen Aimee Sergeant, abducted from Sand Lake Reservation for the sex trade, has her own throat slit when she tries to escape. Ojibwe Officer Bad Heart Bull just happens to be on hand to rescue the four even-younger girls who were snatched with her. In the meantime, even more surprisingly, Joe Hardy, a cancer-ridden Special Ops sharpshooter, executes Aimee's Somali kidnappers. A sizable stash of weaponry and a remarkably similar murder spree in faraway Culver City confirm Minneapolis PD Detective Leo Magozzi's hunch that the sale of the kidnapped girls was intended to provide financing for a gang of Somali terrorists who've gone after Smith for mysterious reasons that provide the slender mystery's most pleasing surprise. The rest of the Monkeewrench crew--Annie Belinsky, Harley Davidson and Roadrunner--don't have much more to do than the abducted Ojibwe girls; for better or worse, this show mostly belongs to Magozzi, his partner, Gino Rolseth, and the imperturbable Smith. Despite the high body count, Tracy (Shoot to Thrill, 2010, etc.) seems to have taken something off her customary manic formula: The murders are much less florid than usual, and the regulars seem almost subdued.

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