Want to Play? - PJ Tracy

Want To Play? This is the debut psychological thriller by an American mother - daughter team. It is part of their ongoing Monkeewrench series (the American title of this book), the latest being Snow Blind which was out in September 2006. The first three books went on to become National and International bestsellers. What made me pick us this book online was the fact that one of my favourite authors Harlen Coben spoke so highly of it, so in an instant I just new that the chances were I'd enjoy it. Grace MacBride is part of the Monkeewrench team, who are in the process of creating a new computer ... more

A group of five friends are creators of a company called Monkeewrench. They produce computer games for pre-school children and have made themselves substantially rich in the process. One of the team, Grace MacBride, decides they need to branch out and they create a game called Serial Killer. The player has to decipher clues from each murder, to enable them to get to the next level in an attempt to catch the killer. However, one player seems to be slightly more excited by the game than the norm and begins to recreate the murder scenes, right down to the last tiny detail in real life. It’s a ... more

New crime authors seem to be popping up from all corners and it's becoming hard to wade through the crime section at my local bookstore, and as I browsed many of them seemed to be fairly similar in style, so after almost getting arrested for loitering in the book shop because I took that long I settled for a 3 for 2 offer in thinking that perhaps 2 out of the 3 might not be bad. Want To Play is the first novel by P. J. Tracy, first published in Great Britain in 2003, my edition was published by Penguin in 2004 and is a paperback copy of the novel. PLOT The murder of two God-fearing but not ... more

I have decided that recently I have spent far too much money buying books new when I have bookcases which are quite literally filled to capacity with books which range from very good to unlikely to ever get opened again, so it has become time to start re-reading some of the older ones or ones which are part of series where I might have started reading out of order. This decision was brought about by my recent purchase of PJ Tracy's fourth book, Snow Blind, and the fact that the previous three Tracy books have been nestled at the back of my book case and recently rediscovered (amazing what ... more

I have only just discovered this author and can honestly say I really enjoyed this first novel from the mother-daughter writing team that is P.J.Tracy!!Although it had some faults ,overall this was good enough for me to want to read more of their work. The book begins when an elderly couple are found shot dead in a small town church in what appears to be an isolated,one-off incident.Investigating the couple's background,the local sheriff discovers the pair had booby-trapped their house prompting his curiosity into just who these people were... Meanwhile,in the city of Minneapolis,a series of ... more