It's just a really good book, it's highly entertaining and keeps you alert and wanting more, you will want to power through pages to get to the final outcome. Murder, mystery, justice, and suspense take center stage in Robert Dugoni’s first book in the Tracy Crosswhite series: My Sister’s Grave.

I really like that she is a likeable, normal person without a drinking problem or dysfunctional family life, although quite obsessive in her quest for justice. This takes place in the mountains of Washington State and one of the biggest elements of this story is the snow storm.It's got one of those plots where you really can see some things coming, but they are planted to be that obvious because even the reveals are interesting and contain a few things you would not expect. The reason behind this being included in probably t …more You're right, electricity is generally considered to be a topic studied in Physics, not Chemistry. Tracy was in no position to tell him she’d investigated more murders in a year than he’d investigated his entire career. 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.

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. It’s been twenty years since Tracy’s younger sister Sarah disappeared and the murder trial that followed it. Tracy Crosswhite is a strong and determined woman with a potential for complexity that I’d like to explore. I know what side of the fence, I would come down on because the truth does have a way of coming to light no matter how deeply it’s buried.

I found myself skimming through certain sections to get to something that helped progress the story forward. The majority of the book centers on Tracy's quest to uncover the truth and secure a new trial for House. And it also raises the issue of whether it is possible to trust oneself to become emotionally attached to another person following the experience of a marriage that had not survived a traumatic event. 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. 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.

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). Every turn that Tracy and Dan make, they find more secrets and someone starts threatening their lives. The setting is very atmospheric; set in winter in a small town in the United States, it focuses on the ramifications following the accidental discovery of the body of Sarah Crosswhite, some twenty years after she had disappeared.The main aspects of this novel that impressed me are (1) its writing - a real page turner of a story that is easy to read and follow; (2) the characterisation - all the characters are totally believable, including the bad guys and (3) the plot - very dramatic and increasingly so as it nears its dramatic climax. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. For another, the job she turns out to have been hired for—leading an investigation her new boss doesn’t feel he can entrust to his own force—makes her queasy. So that made sense that she wanted free him especially since it seemed that he could be framed for the murder. Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County.

The sisters had been involved in the sport of shooting, and after a championship, Sarah, was kidnapped and murdered, her body was never found.I think I’ve another two or perhaps three to read to be up to date and I certainly intend to before the new release. Her efforts will antagonize a good number of people in the small town where she grew up and where the crime occurred. Her experiential background leaves an unsettled feeling about how the murder case was handled by the local police.