P.J. Tracy

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Mystery & Thrillers

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PJ Tracy is the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their first three novels, MONKEEWRENCH, LIVE BAIT and DEAD RUN, have become national and international bestsellers.

P.J. Lambrecht is a college dropout with one of the largest collections of sweatpants in the world. She was raised in an upper-middle class family of very nice people, and turned to writing to escape the hardships of such a life. She had her first short story published in The Saturday Evening Post when Traci was eight, still mercifully oblivious to her mother’s plans to eventually trick her into joining the family business. She has been a moderately successfully free-lance writer...more

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Books by P.J. Tracy

Average rating: 3.92 · 7,784 ratings · 865 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 2,556 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Live Bait 3.91 avg rating — 1,524 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Dead Run 3.85 avg rating — 1,381 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Snow Blind (Monkeewrench, #4) 3.81 avg rating — 1,366 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Shoot to Thrill (Monkeewrench, #5) 3.79 avg rating — 982 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	My rating:
	play dead 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings	My rating:
	Spiel unter Freunden / der Köder 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Memento by P.J. Tracy, Tanja Handels (Übersetzer) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Disconnected 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Der Köder by P.J. Tracy, Teja Schwaner (Übersetzer) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Monkeewrench (5 books)
by P.J. Tracy

3.92 avg rating — 7,809 ratings

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Quotes by P.J. Tracy

“If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there’d be a rash of kindergarten suicides. ”
― P.J. Tracy, Live Bait

tags: detective-langer , live-bait , p-j-tracy

14 people liked it

“There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet.”
― P.J. Tracy, Dead Run

tags: agent-knudsen , dead-run , p-j-tracy

3 people liked it

“You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven’t gotten around to yet.”
― P.J. Tracy, Live Bait

tags: annie-belinsky , live-bait , p-j-tracy

3 people liked it

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Polls

Mystery (Thrillers and Suspense) May/2012
Top voted will win
Deadline is 4/27/12

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

7 votes, 38.9%

Private by James Patterson

6 votes, 33.3%

No One Heard Her Scream by Jordan Dane

3 votes, 16.7%

Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy

2 votes, 11.1%

18 total votes

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