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.

In a Minneapolis park full of snowmen is a hidden goulish surprise ...First, the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen and then a day later, in the countryside Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similar discovery. Soon Detectives Gino and Magozzi are sent north Minnesota's seen for years to find what else links the investigations.

It should have been a simple journey. But a couple of unplanned detours lead Grace, Annie and Sharon deep in the northern woods. Then the car breaks down. The search for a landline and a mechanic leads them to Four Corners, a crossroads town. And place they soon wish they'd never stumbled on - because something terrible happened in Four Corners.

The slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like an isolated act of brutal retribution. At the same time in Minneapolis teams of detectives scramble to catch a serial killer. The two separate investigations converge on a Catholic boarding school and it seems an old killer has resurfaced.

The Dead of Winter... Minneapolis, winters first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a goulish surprise First, the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen and then a day later, in the countryside to the north, Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similarly shocking discovery. Soon Detectives Gino and Magozzi are sent north through the worst blizzard Minnesot