{"id":8064,"date":"2020-12-29T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2020-12-29T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:01:29","slug":"a-cold-trail-tracy-crosswhite-7-by-robert-dugoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/a-cold-trail-tracy-crosswhite-7-by-robert-dugoni\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cold Trail (Tracy Crosswhite #7) by Robert Dugoni"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Cold Trail (Tracy Crosswhite #7) <\/em>by Robert Dugoni<\/p>\n

Thomas & Mercer, 2020<\/p>\n

ISBN-10: 1542093228<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 9781542093224<\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, ebook edition, audiobook<\/p>\n

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Cedar Grove, Washington, was a small town that never changed, where everyone knew everyone else\u2019s business.\u00a0 Homicide Detective Tracy Crosswhite had grown up there and thought she had put it behind her. When Tracy and her husband had a baby, though, she wanted her baby daughter to know where Tracy came from, so while their main home was being gutted and refurbished, she and her husband moved back to her childhood home.<\/p>\n

After years of never changing, the small town was seeing a tremendous rebirth.\u00a0 The family-owned stores she grew up with had changed hands and were undergoing renovation.\u00a0 Prosperity was not without its perils, though.\u00a0 One of the local business owners was suing the town for unfair business tactics, and her husband, Dan, was their lawyer.\u00a0 Tracy reconnected with the local acting sheriff, Roy Calloway, while he temporarily came out of retirement to cover for the current Sheriff.\u00a0 A recent house fire turned out to be arson, and the only fatality, Kimberly Armstrong, the current Sheriff\u2019s wife, had been murdered.\u00a0 Kimberly, a local reporter, was writing a book about a long-cold murder case from 1993 of a local woman, Heather Johansen.\u00a0 Sheriff Calloway has a hunch that somehow, the two cases were connected, and he could use some outside help.\u00a0 Tracy was it.<\/p>\n

A Cold Trail<\/em> is a procedural crime thriller that started slow but delivered with a powerful punch at the end.\u00a0 It began like the small town it depicts.\u00a0 Slow and unchanging.\u00a0 Until it changed.\u00a0 The author did a great job laying his framework.\u00a0 At first, it felt like a sleepy little town that happened to have had a couple of murders there. Mix in greedy land developers that were being excessively secretive, and stir.\u00a0 The plot worked well for me as it developed gradually, building suspense slowly much as a real crime investigation would. The story really came together in the last third.\u00a0 The questions disappeared as the suspense built.\u00a0 The ending was a fun twist.\u00a0 The characters were believable as law enforcement types that were slow and methodical.\u00a0 They worked well together, and it felt like I was watching an actual family work through the issues of two overlapping investigations.\u00a0 The detailed descriptions of police procedures and legal proceedings lent an air of authenticity to the work.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t my kind of story, but it felt right.\u00a0 The descriptions were good, giving me enough to picture the scenes.\u00a0 The only thing that didn\u2019t work for me was occasionally the author used an odd turn of phrase that just didn\u2019t fit.\u00a0 It\u2019s interesting how word order makes or breaks a sentence.\u00a0 In the end, this was a good book worth reading.\u00a0\u00a0Recommended for adult readers.<\/p>\n

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Contains: Violence, Adult situations.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Aaron Fletcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 (\u00a0Bookshop.org ) A Cold Trail (Tracy Crosswhite #7) by Robert Dugoni Thomas & Mercer, 2020 ISBN-10: 1542093228 ISBN-13: 9781542093224 Available: Paperback, ebook edition, audiobook   Cedar Grove, Washington, was a small town that never changed, where everyone knew everyone else\u2019s business.\u00a0 Homicide Detective Tracy Crosswhite had grown up there and thought she had put<\/p>\n

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