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Great read

Reviewed in Australia on 2 September 2017

Tracey Crosswhite is trying to solve the murder of a husband, shot in his old home as he was picking up his son. His wife has confessed to the murder and so has his son. Only one of them is guilty it's up to Tracey and her team to unravel the evidence and find the guilty party. An old friend has contacted her about a cold case of a young girl who died 40 years ago it was ruled a suicide but why would the sheriff who died have the file in his home?

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Annie

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Reviewed in Australia on 1 October 2017

Enjoyed reading it

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Annie

Three Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 1 October 2017

Enjoyed reading it

Reviewed in Australia on 12 November 2017

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Good book. Couldn't put it down. Now I'll start book 4
Can't wait to start but it's late maybe tomorrow

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Keeps your attention

Reviewed in Australia on 17 November 2016

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Readable and reasonably suspenseful

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Gregory

A very pleasant read.

Reviewed in Australia on 11 May 2020

Perhaps I'm expecting too much from Robert Dugoni, the first two in the Tracy Crosswhite series were exceptional but the third was just a good detective novel, I hope the series improves as I will continue to read this series.

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Lyn B

A little disappointing

Reviewed in Australia on 10 April 2017

I found this book very slow at the start - although it did improve and had a good ending . I felt that running two story lines at the same time made it difficult to follow as was the flipping back 40 yrs to relate the original details of the second story.

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Like being served milk pudding when you ordered chocolate gateaux

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 August 2019

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What a let down after the first two, brilliant Tracey Crosswhite books. I was so looking forward to reading this, but it just didn’t suck me in like the others. I was looking for electrifying action, thrilling pace, twists and turns, and instead got a run-of-the-mill, plodding police procedural with no pizazz whatsoever.

Dugoni’s mistake was trying to run two cases in tandem: one current and one cold. The aim was to show how solving one could trigger insight into the other. Fair enough, but there was a huge imbalance in their treatment. So much so that the recent murder actually seemed an irrelevance, a distraction even from the main narrative.

The real meat was in the reopening of a 20 year-old case involving the suicide of a young Native American woman. Fresh evidence has come to light and Tracey suspects a coverup for murder. While the mechanics of the investigation, in particular the forensics, are detailed and compelling, the actual rolling out of the plot is just plain dull. The story had great possibilities, but there were too many diversions and an inordinate number of characters who simply had no business being there.

Up until I read this book, I considered Tracey Crosswhite to be a brilliant detective heroine. Her back story - leaving teaching to join the police following the murder of her sister - gives her great motive and integrity. But Dugoni really missed an opportunity here to further develop the personal side of Tracey. I think most readers favor well-rounded characters with recognizable human emotions, foibles, strengths and weaknesses, but sadly Tracey hasn’t evolved at all from the person she was in the last book. For example, it would have been nice to explore more her relationship with boyfriend Dan, but he pretty much popped in at the beginning and the end, and that was it. He might as well not have been mentioned at all.

All in all, I think Dugoni dropped the ball big time with this one. I hope he picks it up again for Detective Crosswhite’s next big case.

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SUSAN J

Predictable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 April 2019

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3rd book in the series and very early on you are able to guess the guilty party. The basis of the story was good but followed the lines of the two previous books . I have bought all the books in the series to date but on this showing I won't be reading anymore . Very disappointed

Edith C

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2021

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Cant rate this book yet as haven't been well so only 42% into the story. Like up till now.

Simon

easy read, well written...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2019

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easy read, well written...

Mrs Valerie A Camacho

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 March 2019

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