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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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/sub/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------