My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite Book 1)

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She hasn’t gone home for twenty years… That is how long it has been since her sister went missing and was presumed murdered. The first book in the series that has garnered millions of readers across the globe, from New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. A Seattle homicide detective is thrust back into a painfully personal case when the remains of her 20-years-vanished younger sister are uncovered in a shallow grave near Cedar Grove, the Washington mountain town where they grew up. There is more courtroom action than I expected, but I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed it.

NY Times Best-selling author Robert Dugoni’s mystery-cum-legal thriller, MY SISTER’S GRAVE, has been optioned for television series development by Ray Ricord, SVP at Critical Content. The story: Tracy Crosswhite is a Chicago detective, good at her job but haunted by personal demons (and that sounds like a thousand other stories out there, I know, but this gets interesting really fast).He had some wickedly interesting twists in this one and kept the guilty party hidden until very late in the book. I loved My Sister’s Grave and was drawn in from the beginning, and can easily recommend it to anyone who loves a good mystery.

A fatal car accident that was anything but accidental has jarred loose a stash of methamphetamines and cash that’s become the center of a battle between the Sons of Freedom, Bakken County’s traditional drug sellers, and MS-13, the Salvadorian upstarts who are muscling in on their territory.Robert Dugoni’s books are sold in more than thirty countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages. A previously convicted rapist named Edmund House was arrested and convicted of Sarah's murder, largely on the basis of circumstantial evidence and on the testimony of the local sheriff who claimed that House had confessed to killing Sarah, even though there was no tape recording or witness to back up the sheriff's claim. Though a convicted rapist was found guilty of her sister’s death, a body was never found, and Tracy has never felt certain that Edmund House was actually the killer.

Winter and all its fury come to life under his pen and he fleshes out the characters so I feel an emotional connection. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers. There is a lot of subtlety here and it was a nice break from the 'in your face-ness' that happens a lot in this genre. And a family, a happy loving family completely devastated by the loss of their talented and daring younger daughter.Overall, this was a fantastic book with well-developed characters, a great setting, realistic dialogue, and a page-turning story line. They had been competing in the finals of a shooting competition and afterwards Tracy went out to dinner with her boyfriend Ben leaving eighteen year old Sarah to drive her car home alone. His characters are well-developed and the coffee cup doesn't overflow with unnecessary bogus information. The guy that’s in jail for Sarah’s murder is indeed, a seriously bad dude – he’d been in jail before for abduction and rape.

She never made it home and although Tracy's car was found on a lonely backroad, Sarah was never found. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. Tracy Crosswhite has spent 20 years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed.I’m not sure exactly what was lacking, but I did not get emotionally involved or connected with any of the characters. The evidence dug up with the body confirms what she has believed for twenty years: They convicted the wrong guy on false circumstantial evidence. My Sister's Grave has a really interesting plot and grabbed me from the word go, I read up to the 80% mark in one sitting, then sadly had to sleep, but finished it when I woke up. I liked this book because the protagonist is smart and capable, and faces the challenges of being one of the few women in a police department without whining about how much harder it is for women in her environment. I have always loved legal thrillers, I like to know what goes on inside the courtroom, the legal process of a trial, the testimonies of the witnesses, the defense, the prosecutor.