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Tracy Crosswhite returns in the second book in the page-turning series by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.

Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life.

A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle. Even after a stalker leaves a menacing message for Crosswhite, suggesting the killer or a copycat could be targeting her personally, she is charged with bringing the murderer to justice. With clues scarce and more victims dying, Tracy realizes the key to solving the murders may lie in a decade-old homicide investigation that others, including her captain, Johnny Nolasco, would prefer to keep buried. With the Cowboy on the hunt, can Tracy find the evidence to stop him, or will she become his next victim?

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Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series, which has sold more than seven million books worldwide; the David Sloane series; the Charles Jenkins series; the stand-alone novels The 7th Canon, Damage Control, The World Played Chess, and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, for which he won an AudioFile Earphones Award for narration; and the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post best book of the year. He is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction and has twice won the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel. He is a two-time finalist for the International Thriller Awards and a finalist for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards. His books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Visit his website at www.robertdugonibooks.com.

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Amazon Best Book of the Month, Mystery & Thriller ―September 2015

“[Dugoni is the] master of Seattle menace.” ―The Big Thrill

“Robert Dugoni breathes life into the police procedural like never before.” ―Suspense Magazine

“Absorbing…Dugoni expertly ratchets up the suspense as Crosswhite becomes a target herself.” ―Seattle Times

“Crosswhite is a sympathetic, well-drawn protagonist, and her next adventure can’t come fast enough.” ―Library Journal, Starred Review

“Takes the stock items and reinvents them with crafty plotting and high energy…The revelations come in a wild finale.” ―Booklist

“Her Final Breath is a stunningly suspenseful exercise in terror that hits every note at the perfect pitch, further establishing Dugoni as a household name.” ―Providence Journal --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas & Mercer (15 September 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle, which has sold more than 8 million books worldwide. He is also the author of The Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and the literary novels, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, for which Dugoni’s narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award and the critically acclaimed, The World Played Chess; as well as the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He has also been a finalist for many other awards including the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.

Robert Dugoni’s books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Visit his website at www.robertdugoni.com, and follow him on twitter @robertdugoni and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorRobertDugoni

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Incredible

Reviewed in Australia on 15 February 2016

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In "Her Final Breath" Tracy Crosswhite is back & after learning who was her sister's killer, she is now on a case where there is a serial killer hog-tying victims. When she is on a shooting range and finds a noose left for her she realises that the killer may be targeting her. As a homicide detective for the Seattle PD, it is not unusual that she is hunting a serial killer. This prolific killer is dubbed The Cowboy for the way he hogties his victims before strangling them. Tracy doesn't want to let the victims down and she, along with her task force run down every lead, trying to find a thread that will take down this cruel murderer. When Tracy's boss puts her in charge of a task force to capture The Cowboy it comes as a bit of shock especially since they both have issues with each other. With the help of her colleagues they work around the clock trying to capture this serial killer before he strikes again but will they catch the right guy? While working to capture The Cowboy Tracy seems to have a stalker but who is it? Is it this serial killer or is it someone else entirely?
The author did well in building suspense and having you guess until towards the end who the killer is.
I like having a female detective in stories and seeing how they solve crimes and deal with things that come their way. Once again, I had trouble figuring out who done it which is unusual for me and heightened the enjoyment factor of this book. I love when I really have to struggle to work through the clues.
The Tracy Crosswhite character is so well written that the reader feels like they're getting to know a friend as they read her harrowing journey to stop a killer. Rooting for the good guy is always a perfect place to be as a reader when an author writes a fabulous character. I found myself hating Tracy's boss so much I would yell at the novel when Nolasco would thwart Tracy's efforts to do her job. I especially love books that make me feel emotions strongly. Dugoni not only wrote a five star novel here, with a mystery that keeps you guessing but he also bloomed a fantastic character in Tracy Crosswhite. I can't wait to read the next in this series.
If you haven't read the first book that is okay I think this book works as a stand alone, but there are some things that happened in the first book you'll just have to accept as a given.

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caught dead to rights

Reviewed in Australia on 26 October 2021

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I enjoyed “Her Sister’s Grave and commented that I had discovered another author I like, and will read his books. Well, “Her Final Breath” did not disappoint, so I have some serious reading ahead of me. Great plot, very realistic, sadly, plenty of excitement and a great twist. Sad about Johnny Nolasco - not!
Thanks Robert, for entertaining me again!

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Dorzi

Awesome read

Reviewed in Australia on 11 September 2021

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This has to be one of the best thrillers I’ve read in a while,so much action and so many suspects. I was incorrect with my guess. Didn’t want to put this one down and highly recommend to anyone who loves these mysteries.

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Stella

Breathless

Reviewed in Australia on 20 September 2018

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What a ride! This story takes you through some creepy, scary and at times frustrating moments, especially betweem Tracy and her crooked boss Nolasco.
The perseverance of her hunt for the serial killer was tenacious even with Nolasco's interference, and those moments with Dan were adorable. Looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

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Deb

Thrilling

Reviewed in Australia on 8 November 2018

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Anothwr great read! Thank you Robert Dugoni for leaving me in suspense when I had to stop reading to go to work. So looking forward to book 3 in The Tracy Crosswhite series. Its hard to imagine what goes thru the minds of real killers and why they do it.

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Chas

I'm hooked

Reviewed in Australia on 10 August 2017

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I stumbled across this series while looking for something akin to the Jack Reacher series. This is different but a thoroughly enjoyable read. Plot and characters build well and in both books so far the ending wasn't predictable.
On to book three now with anticipation

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Joanne Ford

Just as addictive as my sisters grave

Reviewed in Australia on 21 August 2021

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Robert Dugoni is a master storyteller & this follow up of Tracey Crosswhite SPD is no exception. Once again this novel is outstanding

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Gaye

Excellent read.

Reviewed in Australia on 16 April 2017

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Both the Tracy Crossthwhite books have been excellent. Not 'over the top' or unbelievable. I have enjoyed them both for the twists and turns which I'm sure is true in all police work.

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Jippu

A gripping series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 August 2018

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This is a review of the whole 6-book Tracy Crosswhite series. I read them all in one fell swoop (buying a new one in Kindle when I finished the previous one), which just explains why it always pays to write books with the same central character (Harry Potter as the obvious recent example, although thrillers seem to be the major genre where the same hero keeps the thing together). Tracy Crosswhite is a relatively complex figure: woman, gun-crazy, almost pathologically obsessed with the'murder of her sister, who becomes a police for this reason, as a person quite nice and empathetic, politically relatively liberal, no racist etc (but still critical towards the extreme liberality of the Seattle scene) who develops from a small town girl into an urbane cop, married woman and finally mother at 40. The first crime is the murder of Tracy's sister which goes unsolved during 20 years and which finally unravels in the first book. In the second colume, another long dormant pathological serial killer lets the women he kills strangle themselves burning their feet with cigarettes to make the process faster. In the third book, we have again an old murder which has been written off as a suicide which an old policeman has been trying to solve and which Tracy Crosswhite works on as a hobby. And of course solves it using new technology and good trackers. In Trapped Girl, the woman discovered in a crab pot seems to be a clear case, until she is found alive, and everything is turned upside down. In the fifth book, the obvious suspect is let go when the evidence goes missing, but after diligent work, the pieces fall in place. In the final volume, Close to Home, we have a case of family girl going missing while Tracy Crosswhite is already visibly pregnant although trying to hide it. During the series, you get to know several other characters, the two colleagues Del and Fazzio who have previously been only funny and loyal characters become more and more complex with the introduction of their families and family problems (the death of Del's nephew or the cancer diagnosis of Fazzio). Also the slow development of Tracy's affair with an old schoolmate who has moved back to the small town where Tracy's sister was killed, lasts almost the whole book, so that they get married only in the fourth volume and try to get child in the fifth, makes the series more interesting (but it must be admitted that it is at times rather slow...). There is also the obligatory unpleasant chief with whom Crosswhite clashes a few times per book, but who never succeeds. And a few corrupt policemen who make the work more difficult and dangerous. I must admit that I found the Crosswhite character at times a bit improbable, but finally likable. The proof being that I went through the full series without interruption!

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Audrey Haylins

A classic police procedural with twists and turns aplenty and a great detective heroine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2019

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Detective Tracy Crosswhite is hunting down a serial killer; a nasty piece of work dubbed “The Cowboy” because of his modus operandi: placing a noose around his victims’ necks and hog tying them so that they eventually strangle themselves. The murdered women are all exotic dancers who’ve been offering after-hours favors to clients. When Tracy uncovers a link to a similar case from 10 years ago, for which someone was apparently wrongly convicted, she risks ruffling feathers in the upper echelons of the force and must use all her investigative nous to root out the killer, while holding onto her job. Her task is further complicated by the existence of an obsessive stalker hanging around her home.

Her Final Breath is a classic police procedural, with a delicately woven plot and carefully paced build-up to a dramatic conclusion that fairly races off the page. There are twists and turns aplenty, a bad-guy boss, and even a nice bit of love-interest to add a softer counterpoint to the tough stuff. Dugoni has a very easy writing style and develops a great plot without it being overly complex, meaning you can dip in and out of the book without losing track. His heroine, Tracy, is a highly likeable character, with many facets to her personality, who can be better understood if you’ve read the first book in this series - My Sister’s Grave. I look forward to following her adventures further.

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Just getting better & better...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2021

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In the first book I only gave 4 stars because the ending didn't conclude the stripper/dancer motel story & the budding romance was open-ended... Turns out I only had to wait for the next book to have both things sorted & wrapped up brilliantly; therefore no cause for complaint here & another superbly written story

Has to be 5 stars as I couldn't find any flaws in characterisation, plot, description or narrative... Possibly, if I'm clutching at straws there were lots of possible suspects & it made it difficult to remember who's who but that isn't a flaw in writing, just in my memory...

I'm aware this is book 2 in a lengthy series which I am very pleased about as I can't wait to keep reading about Tracy Crosswhite & colleagues... Enjoying it so much!

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WOW

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2021

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Once again this story had me on the edge of my seat. I couldn't stop turning the pages, waiting to learn if they'd finally caught the criminal, 'The Cowboy'. Full of twists and turns. This story will have you lost in a maze as you try to figure out, who is the real killer? Nolasco, Tracy's boss, what a complete waste of space he is. Always trying to find a way to get Tracy thrown off the force, but Kharma came back at him and hit him where he deserved to be hit.
Can't wait to read book 3 and found out what happens to Nolasco. Will he be thrown off the force? I hope so. I have a feeling that Nolasco hasn't yet finished with trying to hurt Tracy.
5 stars from this happy reader.

Ninaminacat

Lacks the depth of emotion and drive of "My Sister's Grave"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2016

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I was so fired up with "My Sister's Grave" that I read this immediately afterwards. This probably helped to heighten the contrast between the two books. Although "Her Final Breath" started well (I had looked at at least part of the sample), I found that without Tracy's intensely personal connection with the investigation, it all fell a little flat; the raw emotion of her search for the truth about her sister was the real driving force in the earlier novel but in this one there was nothing to replace it and make the story really stand out. I also found the characterisation of her team so sketchy that I could hardly tell them apart, which was a shame - some distinct individuals would have added to the depth of the story. Even Trscy herself lacked the depth which she had gradually acquired in "My Sister's Grave". Sadly, I am undecided as to whether to pursue the series; I had previously I had found a new detective, with a character and skills all her own, to follow!

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