Cold Kill

US edition title: THE SIXTH IDEA

Gino and Magozzi return in this latest thriller from best-selling author P. J. Tracy

The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles apart, dramatically concluding winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth.

An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find two dead men in her basement. When Leo and Gino discover her connection to their current cases, they suspect that she is a target, too. The same day, an elderly, terminally ill man is kidnapped from his home, an Alzheimer's patient goes missing from his care facility, and a baffling link among all the crimes emerges.

This series of inexplicable events sends the detectives sixty years into the past to search for answers-and straight to Grace MacBride's Monkeewrench, a group of eccentric computer geniuses who devote their time and resources to helping the cops solve the unsolvable. What they find is an unimaginable horror-a dormant Armageddon that might be activated at any moment unless Grace and her partners Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, along with Leo and Gino, can find a way to stop it. PRAISE FOR P. J. TRACY: 'Outrageously suspenseful'
Harlan Coben

'A fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twists'
Guardian

'A truly brilliant crime thriller, fast-paced and edgy, full of deception and retribution with the essential incredible twist!'
Newmarket Journal

'A powerful thriller and an ingenious plot'
Observer Review

'Some of the best new blood work in the genre . . . Scary funny, witty, and genuinely perplexing right to the end'
Glasgow Herald

'Eclectic characters and zingy dialogue . . . exhilarating'
People

'All of the elements that made the previous books under the Tracy banner so successful are in evidence in Two Evils...