The Monkeewrench crew returns in a twisty, heart-stopping new thriller. The peaceful 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 winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. … Gino Rolseth.
An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find two dead men in her basement. When Leo and Gino discover her connection to their current cases, they suspect that she is a target, too. The same day, an elderly, terminally ill man is kidnapped from his home, an Alzheimer’s patient goes missing from his care facility, and a baffling link among all the crimes emerges.
This series of inexplicable events sends the detectives sixty years into the past to search for answers—and straight to Grace MacBride’s Monkeewrench, a group of eccentric computer geniuses who devote their time and resources to helping the cops solve the unsolvable. What they find is an unimaginable horror—a dormant Armageddon that might be activated at any moment unless Grace and her partners Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, along with Leo and Gino, can find a way to stop it.
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PJ Tracy, a mom and daughtet team, have written another great mystery/suspense book starring the crew called Monkeewrench.
You are hooked from the 3rd page for a ride across wintry Mn for missing seniors, dead bodies in basements and a theory to stop nuclear war forever…..in a scary premise that could work.
The team of Leo and Gino, gruff but full of compassion and great comedic timing, lead the team from Monkeewrench to solve the crimes. Monkeewrench is a group of computer savy people that bonded during college and help solve the wild and wooly crimes and murders no one else can.
You know the movie “Strangers on a Train”…this starts with two people chatting on a plane and finding they have something in common…in the past. This book moves fast and keeps you tense nut releases humor at just the right moments.
I have read all if their books and recommend starting with the first if you delight in a series…BUT this is a STANDOUT book that lives on its own. And you’ll think about our power grid, cell phones, computers once you are finished.
There was a 4 year gap between this book and the last, but it was like having dinner with friends you haven’t seen in just as long. You realize how much you missed them and that nothing has changed. Grace and Leo’s relationship seems a bit stronger and Annie and Roadrunner are now having meetings all over the place to get contracts. This story takes place close to the Christmas holiday and it was delightful to see Harley in the spirit with his house decorated to the nines.
The whole topic of this book is a bit scary. It’s very realistic and plausible. It makes one nervous to have a computer in your house. The Sixth Idea happens to be a dormant program that could bring on the downfall of all electronics and put the world back 200 years. The path to this discovery is dangerous and they get a lot of help from an ancestor of one of the original creators, Lydia Ascher. There are parts of the story that I loved, but I don’t want to spoil the surprises. The only thing that bothered me was the ending. It seemed to end too quickly. One big event and that was it. I was expecting some kind of cliffhanger, but was disappointed. There is one very big reveal at the end that makes me very excited to continue reading this series as soon as possible. I’m so very happy that the author decided to continue writing about Monkeewrench.
I marked ‘scary’ because of the content of the plot!! With our world so dependent on our techie things in this day, this book will scare you too. The concept isn’t so fictionalized that it couldn’t be turned into something real and very scary for the whole world. We never thought there’d be a man on the moon either… The writing at times was a little slow, but then maybe it was me not understanding the writing. I’m not REAL tech savvy and some things just didn’t make sense as to how it could be done, yet I know it can. I’m a fan of Monkeewrench family and look forward to catching the next book in series. Thanks