Review by Booklist Review
Here's the sixth Tracy Crosswhite mystery: a story packed with suspense, drama, and raw emotion. Tracy, a homicide cop, is consulting on a missing-persons case that quickly turns into a murder investigation. A woman has disobeyed her parents and refused to go home to India and an arranged marriage, choosing instead to stay in the U.S. and continue her education. Now she is dead, and Tracy is determined to find her killer. But she's distracted by her own problems: she's pregnant, and recent staffing changes have her wondering whether her superiors are planning to ease her out of the department when she goes on maternity leave; furthermore, her good friend and fellow detective Vic Fazzio is on the hook for the death of a witness in a homicide, and his career like, she fears, her own might be over. Lots going on here, but Dugoni has a firm grasp of the plot threads, and he shifts back and forth between them expertly, building suspense and keeping us on our toes. A fine entry in a solid series.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Thriller Award-finalist Dugoni's engrossing sixth Tracy Crosswhite mystery (after 2017's Close to Home) finds Tracy and the other members of the Seattle PD violent crimes division investigating the murder of Monique Rodgers, a mother and an activist against gangs and drugs gunned down in a neighborhood playground. Meanwhile, Tracy looks into the disappearance of Indian American Kavita Mukherjee, who was applying for medical school. Kavita is somewhat estranged from her parents because they want her to agree to an arranged marriage she wants no part of. The case dredges up painful memories for Tracy of her sister's abduction more than 20 years earlier. The stakes rise when another team member, Vic Fazzio, is framed for a key witness's murder in the Rodgers case. Complicating things further, Tracy is pregnant and fearful that a new hire, Andrea Gonzalez, is being groomed to take her place. Fully developed characters and a fast-moving plot that builds to a shocker of an ending distinguish this crime novel. Agent: Meg Ruley, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
The sixth case for Detective Tracy Crosswhite (Close to Home, 2017, etc.) poses a pair of unrelated but equally vexing problems for the Violent Crimes squad of the Seattle Police Department.Monique Rodgers may not have been successful enough to warrant the label community activist, but it's clear that she's done all she's ever going to do when someone shoots her down in broad daylight in her South Park neighborhood. Detective Vic Fazzio, whose wife has been stricken with another round of cancer, would dearly love to tie the murder to Little Jimmy, ne Ricardo Luis Bernadino Jiminez, a drug runner whose father, Big Jimmy, was stabbed to death six months after Faz sent him to prison. But the best evidence at the scene, a telltale handprint on a parked car, leads to a suspect who gets killed by Detective Andrea Gonzalez, a newcomer to A Team, before they can slap the cuffs on him. Meanwhile, Tracy, intent on concealing a pregnancy Gonzalez noticed literally within seconds of first meeting her, does a favor for Katie Pryor, a friend in Missing Persons, by talking to Aditi Dasgupta, a recent University of Washington graduate whose old friend and roommate, Kavita Mukherjee, has disappeared. The two cases couldn't be more different. The first, which offers an obvious suspect and an obvious motive, runs into endless complications over Gonzalez's fatal shot; the second, which heats up after Tracy and Pryor find Kavita's body in a disused well, is a whodunit that will cast suspicion on pretty much everyone who knew the victim, whose determination to apply to medical school instead of allowing her family to arrange her marriage turns out to be far from her only act of defiance.Dugoni (The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, 2018, etc.) winds up both cases satisfactorily, if not very compellingly or brilliantly, in this solid grade-B procedural. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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