Fans of the Tracy Crosswhite series by Robert Dugoni will be
lining up for the latest book in the series. Kerry Hammond jumped right in at
book six and is here to tell us what she thought.
A Steep Price released on June 26 from Thomas & Mercer.
It is the 6th book in the series featuring Tracy Crosswhite, a
detective who investigates cases in Seattle, Washington. Dugoni is a NY Times
bestselling author who has written 11 novels, which include the six books in
the Tracy Crosswhite series.
In A Steep Price, Tracy Croswhite is just finishing up with
her testimony in a court case. As she returns to work she is contacted by a friend
in the missing persons unit about a missing girl. She offers to help even
though she’s sure her boss won’t approve her involvement. When they find the
victim’s body in a park near the home of her parents, Tracy is already fully
involved. They learn that the victim was estranged from her family when she
refused an arranged marriage and planned to go to medical school instead. They
also find a bank account with a lot of unexplained money and wonder just what the girl got herself involved in.
Meanwhile, Faz, another detective in Tracy's unit is being
investigated when an unarmed witness is shot during an attempted questioning.
The shooter is a new detective to the team, Gonzalez, whose addition has already
ruffled feathers. Gonzalez’s and Faz’s
stories don’t align and an internal investigation is looking into what really
happened.
Sometimes you meet people and just get them; you feel right
at home and it’s an instant friendship. Characters are like that too and I had
no trouble dropping into the lives of Tracy and her co-workers. This book is a
police procedural with a lot of well-drawn characters. The reader becomes
invested in the current cases being solved as well as the lives of the
detectives working them. There were two cases being investigated, side by side, and as
the chapters alternated I found that I was craving an update on each. I like
Dugoni’s writing style and this was an easy, entertaining read.
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