The Sixth Idea

May 30, 2016
Tracy’s entertaining seventh Monkeewrench novel (after 2012’s Off the Grid) centers on a top-secret science project in 1957 that involved the eight men who developed the hydrogen bomb. In the present, Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth turn to the Monkeewrench computer experts—Grace MacBride, Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson—when the only connection they can find between murder victims Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz is that Spencer and Luntz are descendants of the eight men. Meanwhile, Lydia Ascher, another descendant, tells Magozzi and Rolseth about a website called the Sixth Idea that Spencer created to locate other descendants. The detectives are flummoxed by a kidnapping and the existence of an assassin who appears to be protecting the descendants. The Monkeewrench gang need all their various skills to track other descendants, protect Lydia, uncover a clever conspiracy, and help end the carnage in this successful mix of detection and thriller. Author tour. Agent: Ellen Geiger, Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

March 15, 2016

The Monkeewrench gang, computer geniuses who help the police with seemingly unsolvable crimes, find their resources stretched to the utmost when it looks as if the heat is being turned up on a long-simmering Armageddon plan. It starts when two social media-connected friends planning to meet for the first time are murdered several miles apart. From the Anthony, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book award-winning mother-daughter team of Patricia and Traci Lambrecht.

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