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 Live Bait - P.J. Tracy
Description: ISBN 0141011335 / Author: P.J. Tracy / Genre: Crime / Thriller / When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed ... more  Live Bait - P.J. Tracy ... away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless. Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past. Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich, vivid characters as the author's debut Want to Play?, PJ Tracy's Live Bait is an electrifying thriller that explores the chilling extremes of evil and retribution.Newest Review: ... the other detectives. I found this a really nice comfortable introduction to this second novel as I had only recently ... more ... completed Want to Play and the characters were still fresh in my mind. It was like the next instalment and although it was just the characters that were the same and had a completely different story, the continuation of small points from the first book was a welcome choice.
I suffered from a little bit of character confusion in Want to Play due to the amount of people being introduced over the course of the book, but in Live Bait the characters were slower to be included and there were essentially only a few more key names ...more |
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Live Bait - P.J. Tracy: Help The Aged (1115 words)
by wendybull - written on 03/05/07 (Very useful, 212 readings)
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Live Bait is the second book from the mother and daughter team that make up the author – PJ Tracy, and it has certainly lived up to the expectation I had after reading their first novel - Want to Play. Someone has it in for the old folk in Minneapolis this Springtime. Two dead seniors, both shot, but one shot dead in the head and the other in the arm, before being tied to train tracks with barbed wire, still alive, and left to get squashed. One was a much loved and well-known member of the community with his own garden nursery and practically a saint status among the neighbourhood and the other a loner, who nobody really knew. Detectives ...
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