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Want to Play?

Want to Play?

Summary

THERE'S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE, AND HE WANTS TO PLAY . . .

Discover the runaway bestselling Richard & Judy pick, the gripping first thriller in the million copy bestselling Twin Cities series

'A tremendously suspenseful story . . . had me frantically turning the pages' 5***** READER REVIEW

Want to play a game?
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A small American town.

A brutally cold autumn.

A killer is at work.


Two bodies are found; two slayings that the police treat as unrelated. But games-creator Grace MacBride knows different.

The murders are exact copies of those in a game she's designing - one that already has hundreds of eager players.

As the copycat killings mount up, Grace knows that she is both suspect and potential victim.

And with the serial killer getting closer, she is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse . . .
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'A real page-turner . . . You'll be biting your nails' 5***** Reader Review

'The thriller debut of the year'
Harlan Coben

'A cracking thriller . . . I simply could not put the book down' 5***** Reader Review

'A fast-paced, gripping read with devilish twists'
Guardian
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Want to Play? introduces P.J. Tracy's cult thriller characters Grace MacBride and Detectives Gino and Magozzi. Follow their journeys in the rest of the series: Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Play to Kill, Two Evils, Cold Kill, Nothing Stays Buried and The Guilty Dead.

About the author

P. J. Tracy

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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