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The most recent two titles (2018 and 2019) in PJ Tracy's Monkeewrench series have dropped to $1.99 each at Kindle and Kobo US. I haven't run into this series before, just stumbled on it because one of the titles is part of today's Kindle US Daily Deal, but it sounds sort of interesting. According to SYKM, the first title in the series (Monkeewrench, apa Want to Play?) won a couple of "Best First" awards.

The Guilty Dead, #9
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Guilty-Dead-M...dp/B07CWY7TRW/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Guilty-Dead...dp/B07CWY7TRW/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-guilty-dead-4

Spoiler:

Dead men tell no tales...but their pasts can’t keep a secret.

Gregory Norwood is Minnesota’s most beloved philanthropist, and the story of his son’s overdose was splashed across the front page of all the papers. When a photojournalist sets out to get a candid shot of the highly successful businessman on the one year anniversary of his son’s death, he’s shocked to find Norwood dead with a smoking gun in his hand. The city is devastated, and Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called in to handle the delicate case. It should be open and shut, but something is not right. Norwood's death is no suicide.

With no suspects and an increasing tangle of digital evidence that confounds the Minneapolis Police Department’s most seasoned cops, Magozzi calls on Grace MacBride, Monkeewrench Software’s founder and chief computer genius and the soon to be mother of their child together. She and her motley crew of partners begin to unravel connections between Norwood’s death and an even larger plot. Norwood wasn’t the first, won’t be the last, and by the end, may be just one of many to die. The breakneck, high stakes race to find his killer and save the lives of hundreds make P. J. Tracy's The Guilty Dead her most outstanding novel yet.

Ice Cold Heart, #10
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NTX8TGH
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NTX8TGH
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ice-cold-heart-4

Spoiler:

Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth join Grace MacBride and Monkeewrench to uncover a dark and ugly conspiracy that reaches deep into the safety of homes in this latest electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author P. J. Tracy.

It's a bitter winter in Minnesota--too cold to kill. There hasn't been a murder for a month, but the lull quickly comes to an end for Detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth, when they're called to the gruesome homicide of Kelly Ramage. Found in a friend's vacant house, this was no random attack, and clues reveal that she was living a very dangerous secret life.

Magozzi and Gino trace her steps back to an art gallery where she was last seen alive. The gallery seems like a dead end, but the art is disturbing and exploitative. It may very well be inspiring a sadistic killer, because in this instance, art doesn't imitate life, it imitates death.

Tipped off about a year-old murder that is a mirror-image of Kelly's crime scene, Gino and Magozzi enlist the aid of Grace MacBride and her eccentric, tech genius partners in Monkeewrench Software to help them decipher the digital trail that might connect the cases.

As coincidences emerge, Magozzi, Gino, and the team have to work around the clock at breakneck pace to unravel a series of clues that form the framework of a larger, more sweeping, and insidious conspiracy than any of them could have imagined. Is Kelly the last person to die or just the most recent? And is there any way to stop it?