Minnesota Mystery Night
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July 15, 2024
The conversation is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Call Axel's in Mendota Heights to book your seat: (651-686-4840). Be sure to tell them that the reservation is for Minnesota Mystery Night, and whether you'll be coming for dinner. Dinner seating starts at 5:00 p.m. The show starts at 7:00 p.m.
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Traci Lambrecht (PJ Tracy)
Traci Lambrecht writes under the pseudonym, P.J. Tracy. bestselling and award-winning author of the cyber-thriller Monkeewrench series. Lambrecht and her mother P.J. wrote eight Monkeewrench novels together before P.J. passed away in 2016. Lambrecht has since continued the Monkeewrench series solo, still writing as P.J. Tracy, as well as the Detective Margaret Nolan mysteries.
She spent most of her childhood painting and showing Arabian horses, and graduated with a Russian Studies major from St. Olaf College, where she also studied voice. Her aspirations of becoming a spy were dashed when the Cold War ended, so she began writing to finance her annoying habits of travel and singing in rock bands. Much to her mother’s relief, she finally realized that the written word was her true calling. Together they had a long, prolific writing career, winning the Anthony, Barry, Gunshoe and Minnesota Book awards.
Traci now lives outside Minneapolis.
Allen Eskens
Allen Eskens is the bestselling author of nine novels including The Life We Bury, Nothing More Dangerous, and Saving Emma. His next novel, The Quiet Librarian, will be out on February 18, 2025 and is available now for preorder at your favorite bookstore.
He is the recipient of the Barry Award, Minnesota Book Award, Left Coast Crime Award, and Silver Falchion Award and has been a finalist for the Edgar®, Thriller, Nero, and Anthony awards. His books have been translated into 26 languages.
Eskens earned a journalism degree from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from Hamline School of Law. He has studied creative writing at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, the Iowa Summer Writer’s Festival and in the M.F.A program at Minnesota State-Mankato. He now lives with his wife, Joely, in the rural environs of southern Minnesota, where he retired after practicing criminal law for 25 years.