Nothing Stays Buried (Monkeewrench, Bk 8)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
NOTHING STAYS BURIED is the eighth and latest in the Monkeewrench series by P.J. Tracy. IMO a new reader should not start here, there is just too much backstory missing for the characters to have any resonance without prior knowledge.
Minneapolis detectives Magozzi and Rolseth are working a suspected serial killer case, distinguished by the playing cards left the victim's bodies. The Monkeewrench crew is out in farming country, hoping to use their computing power to find a farmer's missing daughter. The two cases will intersect (of course) when Magozzi and Rolseth start finding several leads all point them to the same place.
P.J. Tracy is a pseudonym for a mother-daughter writing team; I read on the jacket copy that the mother passed away in late 2016. I'm not going to pretend I know what was in the author's mind(s), but it's not my imagination to say that this entry has more emotional tone to it than any of the others. Between Grace being pregnant and the farmer Walt thinking of his dead son and missing daughter, there is a strong theme about what it means to be a parent. Not going to hit you over the head with it, but it's not as light-hearted as the other books. There's a pulse-pounding bit towards the end with the players converging right in the middle of a tornado. Using drug cartels as a plot device seems very current too.
My minor complaint would be that Monkeewrench's expertise doesn't feel like it's used very much, and most of the team doesn't get much attention. All the books in this series have some pretty amazing coincidences - that's just a given - and we've got a nice neat ending here too. One bit seemed outlandish, but it made a nice story, and for all I know it's possible. Bottom line: I enjoyed this book and the previous 7 a lot, and if another comes out I'll continue with the series.
Minneapolis detectives Magozzi and Rolseth are working a suspected serial killer case, distinguished by the playing cards left the victim's bodies. The Monkeewrench crew is out in farming country, hoping to use their computing power to find a farmer's missing daughter. The two cases will intersect (of course) when Magozzi and Rolseth start finding several leads all point them to the same place.
P.J. Tracy is a pseudonym for a mother-daughter writing team; I read on the jacket copy that the mother passed away in late 2016. I'm not going to pretend I know what was in the author's mind(s), but it's not my imagination to say that this entry has more emotional tone to it than any of the others. Between Grace being pregnant and the farmer Walt thinking of his dead son and missing daughter, there is a strong theme about what it means to be a parent. Not going to hit you over the head with it, but it's not as light-hearted as the other books. There's a pulse-pounding bit towards the end with the players converging right in the middle of a tornado. Using drug cartels as a plot device seems very current too.
My minor complaint would be that Monkeewrench's expertise doesn't feel like it's used very much, and most of the team doesn't get much attention. All the books in this series have some pretty amazing coincidences - that's just a given - and we've got a nice neat ending here too. One bit seemed outlandish, but it made a nice story, and for all I know it's possible. Bottom line: I enjoyed this book and the previous 7 a lot, and if another comes out I'll continue with the series.
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