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When Minneapolis homicide cops Rolseth and Magozzi are called to a derelict stretch of the Mississippi River, they see... read full description
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Apr 16, 2011
Lisa
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Thank you to Shelf Awareness for the ARC of this title. It's been awhile since mother/daughter writing team PJ Tracy came out with a new entry in their popular Monkeewrench series. The latest, Shoot to Thrill, should provide plenty of enjoyment for new and established fans. Leo and Gino, the two seasoned Minneapolis detectives, are back in fine form - squabbling like an old married couple while they tackle what at first appears to be a single homicide only to find it's one in a series of sick y
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Aug 09, 2011
Kara
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As a Minneapolis resident, it’s a lot of fun to read books set in my city. The authors also do a fine job of name-dropping of local points of interest, though I don’t think they’ve ever been inside City Hall. No mention of the Father of Waters statue? The one thing that seems out of place in these books is that the summers here are always stiflingly hot, and, while it has happened, we haven’t really had one in years. In fact, in 2009, it felt like we barely had a summer at all.
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Nov 25, 2010
Chibineko
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Don't get me wrong. I loved this book. Not only is it another P.J. Tracy book, but this one features the Monkeewrench crew more heavily in this book than the previous book (Snow Blind). It's just that this book had one or two things I'm just not entirely sure about.
This volume of the Monkeewrench series focuses on killers who are videotaping their murderous exploits. The FBI is at a loss as they appeal to various internet geniuses (including the Monkeewrench crew) for assistance. The More...
This volume of the Monkeewrench series focuses on killers who are videotaping their murderous exploits. The FBI is at a loss as they appeal to various internet geniuses (including the Monkeewrench crew) for assistance. The More...
Jun 21, 2010
Lighthearted
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Monkeewrench is back, baby! Monkeewrench is a haunted, eccentric, close-knit team of computer geniuses who’ve turned their skills from creating computer games to developing anticrime software. Harley Davidson, Roadrunner, Annie and Grace must a) crack the code killers are using to communicate online b) create software which will separate staged murders from the real thing and c) trace the online snuff films to the killers. Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are alon
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Jun 16, 2010
Tara
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This mother/daughter writing team penned a thriller called Monkeewrench about...probably ten years ago now?...a team of oddball computer hackers including the fabulously bodacious Fat Annie, opera-loivng leather-clad Harley Davidson, lyrcra-clad biker Roadrunner and the incredibly fierce/damaged Grace Macbride. (Grace was highly traumatized by some crazy crazy things in her past and she wears knee-high reinforced riding boots so no one can slash her Achilles tendon and is always armed to the tee
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Jun 14, 2010
Spuddie
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This review applies to the audio version.
#5 "Monkeewrench" mystery set in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and featuring MPD homicide detectives Rolseth and Magozzi and the Monkeewrench computer team. Monkeewrench--a very computer saavy bunch who operate somewhat outside the law for the greater good--has been asked by the FBI to assist in tracking down a killer or killers who are posting video of their kills on the web. Their own crack squad can't find anything, so they aren't More...
#5 "Monkeewrench" mystery set in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and featuring MPD homicide detectives Rolseth and Magozzi and the Monkeewrench computer team. Monkeewrench--a very computer saavy bunch who operate somewhat outside the law for the greater good--has been asked by the FBI to assist in tracking down a killer or killers who are posting video of their kills on the web. Their own crack squad can't find anything, so they aren't More...
Jun 12, 2010
S.D.
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Another in the great Monkeewrench Series. This time murders are being telecast over the Internet throughout the U.S. The FBI enlists the aid of hackers in order to track down who is doing the killing. They also are looking for a software program that can distinguish between staged deaths and the real thing. Enter Grace and her band of computer geeks. Meanwhile the hilarious team of Margozzi and Rolseth have their hands full with a bride found floating in the river. They soon discover the b
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Apr 18, 2010
Lynne
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The wait for a new Monkeewrench novel is over. At last. And it was worth it.
The FBI has asked the brilliant Monkeewrench gang for help with a new twist in cyber crime. Film of murders -- real murders in progress -- are being posted on the Internet. There is bragging in
advance. Even finding the bodies and tying the crimes together is a challenge.
With evil this audacious, the Monkeewrenchers can't resist the challenge. Even if it means allowing an FBI liasion into t More...
The FBI has asked the brilliant Monkeewrench gang for help with a new twist in cyber crime. Film of murders -- real murders in progress -- are being posted on the Internet. There is bragging in
advance. Even finding the bodies and tying the crimes together is a challenge.
With evil this audacious, the Monkeewrenchers can't resist the challenge. Even if it means allowing an FBI liasion into t More...
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May 31, 2010
Shoot to Thrill, by P. J. Tracy, A-minus, narrated by Buck Schirner, produced by Brilliance Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
This is no. 5 in the collaboration between the Minneapolis police, and a group of computer wizards called Monkeywrench. In this one, Monkeywrench and the police are asked to collaborate with the FBI in tracking down computer criminals who seem to be photographing real murders and putting them on the web. More frightening yet, they advertise ahead of time by More...
This is no. 5 in the collaboration between the Minneapolis police, and a group of computer wizards called Monkeywrench. In this one, Monkeywrench and the police are asked to collaborate with the FBI in tracking down computer criminals who seem to be photographing real murders and putting them on the web. More frightening yet, they advertise ahead of time by More...
May 08, 2010
Rainey
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Ive read all the previous books in this series and looking forward to this one.
5/7/10 On page 180. This one is right up there in my top 5 so far this year. It moves amazingly fast, no down time and dragging out of the story line. Will write review when book is finished.
5/8/10 Stayed up late and finished this morning. Great read and very satisfying end.
FBI agent John Smith, fast approaching mandatory retirement is sent to Minneapolis to work with the M More...
5/7/10 On page 180. This one is right up there in my top 5 so far this year. It moves amazingly fast, no down time and dragging out of the story line. Will write review when book is finished.
5/8/10 Stayed up late and finished this morning. Great read and very satisfying end.
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Sep 15, 2010
Jon
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If you liked the previous P.J. Tracy books, you will like this one. It has all the familiar characters and characteristics. I suppose it's inevitable in the Monkeewrench series, but I've noticed a theme in whodunnits lately that's beginning to bother me. It's the assumption that anything you can dream up related to the internet, no matter how complicated and unlikely, is not only possible but is already happening. It has come up in recent books by Thomas Perry, there's always Lisbeth Salander, a
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Aug 11, 2010
Meg
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Shoot to Thrill does indeed have its share of thrills, and, like all Monkeewrench novels, it finds a unique way to link murder and technology in a suspenseful way. The idea of the videotaped murders and a hit list drives the novel along quickly; indeed, this is a quick read. My only complaint is that the Monkeewrench crew itself seems to be-- as characters-- rather underdeveloped in this novel; they just don't seem to get much personal treatment. You get the feeling that the authors are *trying*
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May 05, 2010
Dorie
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A great addition to the Monkeewrench series. This time the crew is caught up investigating serial murders throughout the country. The difference is, the deaths are announced on the internet before they occur, and a video of the actual murder is posted to popular social websites after they are committed, potentially by multiple individuals. There are a few reasons I really liked this book. One is that there was a nice balance of all the recurring characters, including Magazzi and Rolseth, and
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Nov 29, 2011
Sheila
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This book is another in the series of the Monkeewrench computer expert company stories. People are being murdered and an advance clip is aired on the internet. When Minneapolis detectives, Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth attend the scene of the latest murder, it is not what it seems. The corpse is dressed as a bride but is actually a drag queen. When Magozzi tells Grace, a member of the Monkeewrench crew of the scene, she realizes the clip she saw on the internet was not a fake as her peers origina
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Jun 05, 2010
Lauren
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This starts off like all the others. A crime is committed at some point in time, flash forward to something innocuous, a different crime is discovered, computers are involved somewhere. Here though the Monkeewrench crew does something I would have never expected, they trust an FBI agent. Some one kills a man in a wedding gown, the only witness is a drunken ex-Judge. Somehow this leads to the internet being evil.
There is the usual Magozzi moping and worrying about how Grace feels a More...
There is the usual Magozzi moping and worrying about how Grace feels a More...
May 09, 2010
K.B.
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Feb 25, 2010
Jane
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I'm anxious for other fans to read this book because I'm not sure what to make of the Grace/Magozzi storyline. I think I know what the author is expressing at the end, but I worry I am projecting my own emotional desire to see them together ....
The FBI comes to hackers for help trying to locate the source of snuff films being posted on social media sites. Is the internet community being used to normalize sociopathic behavior? If so, is there anyway to stop this?
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The FBI comes to hackers for help trying to locate the source of snuff films being posted on social media sites. Is the internet community being used to normalize sociopathic behavior? If so, is there anyway to stop this?
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Dec 05, 2011
Rebecca
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This was such a disappointment! After waiting all this time, we get this lackadaisical rendering of one of the most exciting ensembles in mystery history! I put this down and read another book because I was so bored. I kept waiting for it to pick up with the old excitement the crew usually brings. While I found the crew enjoyable, the story had huge holes and the idea of actual murders filmed and shown on the internet is not new with this book. But many of the same theme books I've read were mor
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Dec 03, 2011
Kristin
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Read as an audiobook.
This book has been more sedate and grounded than the last couple of Monkeewrench book - a return to the feel of Book 1 (Monkeewrench) and Book 2 (Live Bait) No one is running around the countryside in the dark trying to escape terrorists, no one is driving around the state in a week long blizzard; we have our characters knuckling down and working the crimes in their hometown of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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This book has been more sedate and grounded than the last couple of Monkeewrench book - a return to the feel of Book 1 (Monkeewrench) and Book 2 (Live Bait) No one is running around the countryside in the dark trying to escape terrorists, no one is driving around the state in a week long blizzard; we have our characters knuckling down and working the crimes in their hometown of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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Aug 12, 2010
Elizabeth
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Shoot to Thrill by P.J. Tracy (pp. 320)
A rash of scattered FBI cases involving anonymous Internet postings of thrill kills is brought to the super-hacking Monkeewrench team and the attention of the local Minneapolis Police Department.
The mother-daughter team behind the pseudonym, P.J. Tracy are consistently great at what they do and continue to get better with each offering – now with their fifth installment of the Monkeewrench series. They have created fun and uniqu More...
A rash of scattered FBI cases involving anonymous Internet postings of thrill kills is brought to the super-hacking Monkeewrench team and the attention of the local Minneapolis Police Department.
The mother-daughter team behind the pseudonym, P.J. Tracy are consistently great at what they do and continue to get better with each offering – now with their fifth installment of the Monkeewrench series. They have created fun and uniqu More...
Sep 08, 2010
Eve
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I really enjoy this series and find that it is one of the ones that spoils me for other mysteries. It's nice to have a new installment in the series - and although this does work well as a stand alone it is richer as part of the series since it is continuing to build on character layers and introducing new complexities that have more meaning if you have the background.
It is - as a blend of cyber and police mystery and hits a good balance between the two. There are some story lin More...
It is - as a blend of cyber and police mystery and hits a good balance between the two. There are some story lin More...
Sep 12, 2010
Chris
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Light, frothy, escapist mystery series fiction and nothing wrong with that! The motley group of super geeks that make up Monkeewrench are up to their old high jinks. This time they stay at home in the twin cities. The crime and crime fighters, including new character John Smith, a soon to retire FBI agent, come to them. Plot involves several simultaneous threads about domestic cyber-terrorism. Just enough gruesome detail is provided as serial killer(s) get busy. I gave this title a 3 based on my
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Jun 06, 2010
Chris
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The Monkeewrench crew team up with FBI agent John Smith and Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth when serial killing takes to the internet with video footage of real murders posted on public sites. Expert hackers Harley and Roadrunner work feverishly to prevent further killings and Smith finds himself in a strange situation, not only accepting help from people he previously considered criminals, but liking them as well. Magozzi still tries to advance his cautious relationship with Grace who is recep
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Aug 22, 2011
Colleen
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Well, probably my least favorite of the series. I enjoy the Monkeewrench crew and the various detectives we've come to know from the previous 4, but with every book I dislike Grace a little more. Her haunted diffidance is just reading as plain bitchy and selfish at this point and I have no more empathy for her as a character. While I disliked the ending in this one, in some ways kind of happy about it too.
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Also, guessed the killer very early on, and everyone's horror over bad things More...
Apr 11, 2011
Laura
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This was really bad. I've loved the other Monkeewrench novels, but this one was pretty useless. They find one killer, who you kind of feel sorry for. And that's the one whose story you know. Then there's the psycho teacher, who they have no explanation for the two waitresses he terrorized. Then there's the rest of the online killing gang who Monkeewrench tracks down from "an anonymous tip" and gives to the FBI. No explanation. Just people do crap kind of stuff.
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Nov 18, 2010
Alicia
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I finally got a chance to read the 5th installment of the monkeewrench novels. I loved the first book but there have been a few less then stellar follow ups. I really enjoyed this novel, the pacing was great and it focused less on the oddities of Grace and her crew (which is a good thing in my opinion). The part that i couldn't stand were the blatant rants against the internet and what problems the internet could cause. It was a vamp throughout the novel and the characters all kept coming ba
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Jun 02, 2011
Karan
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Loved ALL the Monkeywrench mystery books. This one was really good. Looking for geeky super sluths. . . this is the one for you!
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May 03, 2010
farmwifetwo
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I was worried since it's double spaced and little over 300pgs if it was going to be a major let down after our 4yr wait for a new book. It is not nearly as good as the rest but still a much better read IMO than many other authors.
It ends differently than we've been lead to believe over the last few books but at the same time it shouldn't be a huge shock. The authors take their time in leaving you a trail of breadcrumbs througout the story.
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It ends differently than we've been lead to believe over the last few books but at the same time it shouldn't be a huge shock. The authors take their time in leaving you a trail of breadcrumbs througout the story.
I just wish they had added a litt More...
May 10, 2010
Evelyn
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An FBI cyber crimes agent asks the Monkeewrench crew for help after several horrifying murders from all over the country are posted on the Internet. As they work to create software that can distinguish a "real" murder from a staged film, the crew is visited by homicide detectives Magozzi and Rolseth when the latest victim is found floating in the Mississippi River.
Fifth in the Monkeewrench series. As always interesting computer technology and quirky humor. Is there a new More...
Fifth in the Monkeewrench series. As always interesting computer technology and quirky humor. Is there a new More...
Jun 11, 2010
Brian
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Probably closer to 2.5 stars but I rounded down. This is another mystery set in Tracy's Monkeewrench universe in MN. I really enjoyed the previous efforts in the series but this one rang a bit hollow for me. I didn't feel like the Monkeewrench crew were terribly involved with the story. The actual mystery was solid and the ending looked like it could possibly set up some interesting character developments down the road, this particular installment felt more like it was just keeping time, at
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