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  • Published: 1 July 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141916019
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Live Bait




The electrifying follow-up to the highly acclaimed debut, Want to Play?

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 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.

  • Published: 1 July 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141916019
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

About the authors

P. J. Tracy

P. J. Tracy is a pseudonym for the mother-daughter writing team of P. J. and Traci Lambrecht.  P. J. lives on a farm outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Traci lives in Southern California and divides her time between there, Minneapolis and Aspen, Colorado.  They have written three novels: Want to Play? (published in America as Monkeewrench), Live Bait and Dead Run.  Their fourth, Snow Blind, will publish in hardback in Autumn 2006.

Praise for Live Bait

Slick, enjoyable thriller. PJ Tracy is about to become a household name

Daily Mirror

Her second offering doesn't disappoint. Vivid scenes, realistic characters and humorous dialogue

Time Out