P. J. Tracy is the pseudonym of the bestselling mother-daughter writing team Patricia Lambrecht and Traci Lambrecht, whose Monkeewrench novels have won the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota book awards. P.J. was a longtime resident of Minnesota until her death in December 2016. Traci remains in rural Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis, and continues writing about the Monkeewrench gang.
