Melinda Cross

P.J. Tracy is the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. They write the Monkeewrench series, which includes Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Shoot to Thrill, The Sixth Idea, and Nothing Stays Buried. P.J. Lambrecht started writing short stories for magazines in the early 1970s. Under the pen name Melinda Cross, she wrote 11 romance novels for Harlequin's Presents line. She also wrote two romance novels with her daughter. She died on December 21, 2016 at the age of 70.