[LM_NET] Great Reads for us

[Darlene Yasick <lib027yas@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

I have a new favorite author. P.J.Tracy, actually a mother and daughter writing 
team. I stumbled on their third book by accident-- took place around the Green Bay 
area about fifty miles from where I grew up. Loved it and bought the first two and 
can't wait to get my hands on the recently released 4th. These are mystery/ crime 
novels with a huge cast of really interesting characters who exist in and out of 
each other's world. I have yet to have figure out who-dun-it before I get to the 
last chapters. 
   
  The first book is Monkeewrench, the story of a group of misfit computer geniuses 
who invent a computer game. When someone starts murdering people in the same way 
that the characters in the game are killed, Minneapolis detectives Magozzi and 
Rosleth are soon joined by a Wisconsin sheriff who has an unexplained killing of 
his own with ties to the Minnesota cases.
   
  Second book is Live Bait. In this story elderly highly repected Jewish residents 
are being killed and Magozzi turns to software developed by the Monkeewrench people 
for help before there is another murder. It seems as though everyone connected to 
the case has a secret and no one is telling.
   
  Third book is Dead Run. The ladies of Monkeewrench join one of the Wisconsin 
deputies to try and find a serial killer. Instead they get stranded in the woods 
and come across a town from which everyone had disappeared and the phone lines have 
been cut. Then they witness a murder and become the hunted. Can the cavalry in the 
form of the rest of the Monkeewrench crew, the Minnesota detectives and Wisconsin 
lawmen Bonar and Halloran get to them in time or will they have to save themselves 
without any resources but their instincts and experience?
   
  I also just finished reading a creepy but compelling true crime book called 
  A Rip in Heaven: a memoir of murder and its aftermath by Jeanine Cummins. This is 
very well written and tells the story of the murder of two cousins just outside St 
Louis and what happened to her family and especially her brother after that. If you 
have ever wondered about or doubted the "false confession"  of innocent people you 
will learn a lot from this book. It is an incredible story.
   
  OK I guess I should read a few YA now for a break. Darlene


Darlene Yasick
Media Specialist
Hopkins (MI) High School
lib027yas@global.net

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