Monkeewrench

Name: Monkeewrench
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: P. J. Tracy
ISBN: 9798897569199

Author: P. J. Tracy

Series: Monkeewrench Novels

Narrator: Buck Schirner

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/22/2025

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

People are dying for the new computer game by the software company Monkeewrench. Literally. With Serial Killer Detective out in limited release, the real-life murders of a jogger and a young woman have already mimicked the first two scenarios in the game. But Grace McBride and her eccentric Monkeewrench partners are caught in a vise. If they tell the Minneapolis police of the link between their game and the murders, they’ll shine a spotlight on the past they thought they had erased—and the horror they thought they’d left behind. If they don’t, eighteen more people will die … “Reminiscent of the fine work of bestselling author John Sandford.”—USA Today WINNER Mystery Ink Award

About P. J. Tracy

P. J. Tracy is the pseudonym of Traci Lambrecht, bestselling and award winning author of the Monkeewrench series. Lambrecht and her mother, P. J., wrote eight novels together as P. J. Tracy before P. J. passed away in 2016. Lambrecht has since continued the Monkeewrench series solo. She spent most of her childhood painting and showing Arabian horses, and graduated with a Russian Studies major from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she also studied voice. She now lives outside Minneapolis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on September 14, 2023

P.J. Tracy's first book, and a very good thrills, spills, kills on my read it is. The story is centred around a serial killer who appears to mimicking a beta version of an online game created by the think tank / computer software company Monkeywrench. Tracy introduces an odd pair of police officers L......more

Goodreads review by James on September 25, 2016

One of the advantages of belonging to a good book club, in addition to the camaraderie and the great food and booze every month, is that you occasionally wind up reading and enjoying very much a book that otherwise would have flown under your radar. And such is the case here. For a long time I've bee......more

Goodreads review by Claude's on July 27, 2023

UPDATE 28/07/2023 - What a spectacular reread! Love the characters so much and the layered plot! What an absolutely phenomenal crime thriller that I could not stop listening to! At some point today one of my teenagers was talking to me and I was smiling and nodding. They looked confused until they re......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on February 22, 2024

Confession time— yes, I sometimes choose books by their cover despite what Lin-Manuel Miranda and the rest of the Mary Poppins Returns cast reminded us so charmingly in song. But in the case of Monkeewrench, it was a clear case of not liking the title (okay, the blood red cover art didn’t help). So......more

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on February 23, 2021

5★ “‘I met this really nice guy I could set you up with ...’ ‘Last time you set me up it didn't exactly work out.’ Annie rolled her eyes. ‘Grace. You pulled your gun on him. He still won't talk to me.’” Grace had her reasons, Annie. She still has her reasons, which Annie is well aware of. Grace and Anni......more