Dead Run (novel)

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Dead Run
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First edition
Author P. J. Tracy
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Thriller, Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
2005
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages304 pp (US Hardback)
ISBN 978-0-7181-4758-7 (US Hardback)
OCLC 57751086
Preceded by Live Bait  
Followed by Snow Blind  

Dead Run is the third book by mother and daughter authors P. J. Tracy. It follows on from their first and second books, Monkeewrench and Live Bait and has the same principal characters.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews wrote of it: "A ruthlessly efficient straight-arrow tale that’s a welcome change of pace for the Monkeewrench gang, even though both their peculiar talents and their even more peculiar personalities are seriously underemployed." [1]

Publishers Weekly wrote: "The jokes, cold-blooded murders and the past secrets sometimes work at cross-purposes, but the courage and indomitable spirit of the plucky trio will win readers over as they speed through the final pages of the race-against-the-clock ending." [2]

Entertainment Weekly said the plot "delivers both laughs and a sense of peril." [3]

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References

  1. "Dead Run | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  2. "Dead Run | Publishers Weekly". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  3. "Dead Run". EW.com. Retrieved 2021-02-24.