P.J. Tracy - Live Bait (2004)
P.J. Tracy (the pseudonymous identity of a mother-daughter writing team) wrote one of the best debut mysteries of 2003, the Gumshoe Award-winning Monkeewrench. Now she has written a sequel, Live Bait, and it is another polished and intriguing story.
Like John Sandford, the superb crime writer whose work hers most resembles, Tracy uses the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul as the setting for her stories. That frigid Midwestern location makes a perfect backdrop for her suspenseful and witty stories of cops and killers.
Several elderly people in the city have been the victims of violent attacks, and the pressure on the police to solve the crimes is intense.
Live Bait has a complex and interesting plot, and the lead characters are nicely done. Unfortunately the secondary characters who were used to such great effect in Monkeewrench hardly appear in this one, but that is only a minor detraction.
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