Books 2007 - PJ Tracy
Jan. 13th, 2007 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulro3. Snow Blind by PJ Tracy
I found the first PJ Tracy book while nursing my New Year's Day hangover in 2006 and finished it on the 2nd of January. At some point this year I demolished the second one equally quickly. This is the fourth and latest (the third has eluded me at the library thus far) in the series.
This book features Tracy's usual cast of characters, Detectives Gino and Magozzi and the Monkeewrench crew (a bunch of hackers who were the subject of the first novel), in pursuit of a killer who put his victims inside snowmen in a public park in Minneapolis, and may or may not have done the same in the rural north of the state. You can tell one of the authors lives in Minnesota, because the descriptions of the blizzards and travel conditions are spot on. That, and there's the odd bit of vocabulary in there I haven't heard since I left the prairies.
The first half is less gripping than the earlier books (although the scene where they have to knock over all the snowmen in the park to see if there's any bodies hidden inside is pretty hilarious). It's even less substantial than the other books in the series. It's well written and a good waste of a few hours, but again I would recommend that you go read Want to Play? and Live Baitfirst, because they're much better.
I am reading some more substantial books, really, but finishing them seems to be an issue at the moment.
I found the first PJ Tracy book while nursing my New Year's Day hangover in 2006 and finished it on the 2nd of January. At some point this year I demolished the second one equally quickly. This is the fourth and latest (the third has eluded me at the library thus far) in the series.
This book features Tracy's usual cast of characters, Detectives Gino and Magozzi and the Monkeewrench crew (a bunch of hackers who were the subject of the first novel), in pursuit of a killer who put his victims inside snowmen in a public park in Minneapolis, and may or may not have done the same in the rural north of the state. You can tell one of the authors lives in Minnesota, because the descriptions of the blizzards and travel conditions are spot on. That, and there's the odd bit of vocabulary in there I haven't heard since I left the prairies.
The first half is less gripping than the earlier books (although the scene where they have to knock over all the snowmen in the park to see if there's any bodies hidden inside is pretty hilarious). It's even less substantial than the other books in the series. It's well written and a good waste of a few hours, but again I would recommend that you go read Want to Play? and Live Baitfirst, because they're much better.
I am reading some more substantial books, really, but finishing them seems to be an issue at the moment.
