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Cold Kill

A fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twists

A powerful thriller and an ingenious plot

Some of the best new blood work in the genre . . . Scary funny, witty, and genuinely perplexing right to the end

Eclectic characters and zingy dialogue . . . exhilarating

The 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 the winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. 
 
This series of inexplicable events sends the detectives sixty years into the past to search for answers - and straight to Grace MacBride's Monkeewrench. What they find is an unimaginable horror - a dormant Armageddon that might be activated at any moment unless Grace, along with Leo and Gino, can find a way to stop it.

*US edition title: THE SIXTH IDEA* 
 
Cold Kill is the seventh book in P.J. Tracy's bestselling Twin Cities series. 
 
Two dead bodies. 
 
On a cold winter's night in Minneapolis, two friends are brutally murdered on opposite sides of the city. It's clear to homicide detectives Gino and Magozzi that the men were targets - but why? 
 
A decades-old conspiracy. 
 
As Gino and Magozzi begin to uncover evidence, the clues rapidly start to disappear. Lost websites and missing CCTV footage lead them once more to Grace MacBride and her eccentric team of computer analysts - the only ones who can help. 
 
A deadly attack that could bring a city to its knees. 
 
But as more bodies appear, the team begin to realize that this isn't fresh blood - this is a case that stretches back sixty years. And something that has been lying dormant is now awakening. 
 
As Gino and Magozzi race to find answers, they slowly uncover an unimaginable horror: one that they must stop if any of them are to get out alive . . . 
 
PRAISE FOR P. J. TRACY: 
 
'Outrageously suspenseful' 
Harlan Coben 
 
'A fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twists' 
Guardian 
 
'A powerful thriller and an ingenious plot' 
Observer Review 
 
'Scary funny, witty, and genuinely perplexing right to the end' 
Glasgow Herald 
 
'Eclectic characters and zingy dialogue . . . exhilarating' 
People 
 
 
Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich vivid characters as in previous novels, Cold Kill is the new gripping instalment in the internationally bestselling Monkeewrench series. Follow the characters' journeys in the rest of the series: Want to Play?, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Play to Kill and Two Evils.

P. J. Tracy was the pseudonym for the mother-and-daughter writing team of P. J. and Traci Lambrecht. Together P. J. and Traci were authors of the bestselling thrillers Want to Play? (a Richard and Judy Book Club pick), Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Play to Kill, Two Evils, Cold Kill and Nothing Stays Buried. P. J. passed away in 2016, but Traci has continued the series with The Guilty Dead and Ice Cold Heart.

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