My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite Book 1)

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The characters are really well written, I loved Tracy's loyalty and love for her dead sister, admired her for not giving up on seeking answers. 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. Characters could use some work too--I'm not sure any of them rose above stereotypes (but, this seems to be another standard of the genre). Actually, the court scene, the mystery, the story behind the old codgers, the revenge, its all flat. I want her to be my sister, I know at least if I got murdered, my sister would not rest until the truth was out there.

She never made it home and although Tracy's car was found on a lonely backroad, Sarah was never found. The story pretty much starts with the uncovering of remains that turn out to be Sarah's and thus it reopens old wounds for the town and for Tracy, who lost everything the day she lost her sister.Tracy decided to become a law enforcement officer after her sister Sarah disappeared twenty years previously and was never found. Murder, mystery, justice, and suspense take center stage in Robert Dugoni’s first book in the Tracy Crosswhite series: My Sister’s Grave. She doesn't believe that Edmund House-a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah's murder-is the guilty party.

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 author has captured a sense of the emotional bond that can exist between siblings (or sisters in this case) and the lasting impact and feelings of guilt that an action for which a person holds themselves responsible, has on their life.I was really drawn to Tracy while reading The Academy, set during Tracy’s Police Academy days, and knew after reading Third Watch, set during her days as a beat cop in Seattle, that I wanted more of this detective.

The last sections I felt had some avoidable brutality which felt out of place with the rest of the story, and could also have been better. The Sinker - It’s twenty years, twenty long years to wonder where the body of your sister has been buried. I already have book two in the series lined up, so I'm hoping I'll feel more connected with that one. Tracy never gave up looking for his sister and was very determined to learn the truth of what happened to her. I ultimately rounded up instead of down for this one because I've been reading a lot of thrillers recently and while they're all emotional to some degree I've not been brought to tears by any of them.

Though it’s not necessary to read the prequels before launching into the novels, Tracy’s early relationship with her future boss, Johnny Nolasco, is very entertainingly set forth in these shorts, especially The Academy, and both short stories are rated 5 stars by me. The next morning, the empty truck was discovered on a county road with Sarah nowhere to be found, and her disappearance turned both the Crosswhite family and the town itself upside down.

You have courtroom drama, a really bad guy, and a woman who can shoot and won’t take no for an answer. As Tracy went off to dinner with her boyfriend, Sarah left to drive home in the rain and was never seen again. Tracy Crosswhite has never forgotten the night her younger sister Sarah disappeared twenty years ago.

Robert Dugoni’s books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Tracy’s childhood friend Dan O’Leary is now an attorney who agrees to take it on after he sees the evidence conflicts but the two of them seem to stand alone.