I have read and loved all of the books in the Tracy Crosswhite series. This time around, Tracy and Dan have returned to Cedar Grove while their house is being remodeled. While Dan works to help a merchant keep his store, Tracy gets a chance to work a cold case that may be connected to a recent murder.

I loved this book as much as the first book in the series, My Sister’s Grave. I love the small town feeling that the author invokes while reading this book. It reminds of the small town I grew up in. He captures the demise of the town very well. You can almost see the empty downtown area and feel the desolation, hear the chatter of citizens as they gossip about their neighbors, and knowing just about everyone you meet.

The author has a way of moving you forward in the story, but then takes you back and lets you see how an incident happened. This is one of my favorite things that Robert Dugoni does in his books. It always makes the story more interesting to see how something took place from the perspective of the murderer and the victim.

I also enjoy how many of the characters continue from one book to the next. They all start to feel like family and each book is a family reunion. The author continues to let Tracy grow in her relationship with Dan and allows them as a couple to have good and bad moments which makes them seem more realistic.

Nothing but good vibes for this story. A well written whodunit with a surprised villain. I only wish I could give it more than 5 stars. I can’t wait for the next one.

Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Thank you Net galley. I have enjoyed the Tracy Crosswhite series very much. This one is also a good read. However, it lacks the zing of the previous books. I will still recommend it strongly.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of the newest installment of the Tracey Crosswhite series.

Please refer to the publisher’s summary and book jacket for the plot line. This review will give my personal reflections.

Detective Tracey Crosswhite returns to Cedar Grove with her husband Dan and new daughter, Daniella in the 7th installment of this series. While on maternity leave, she is asked to look into two fatal events. As she investigates, she uncovers discrepancies in the rulings of cause of death of three people( two decades old). Attorney husband Dan is representing a client in a legal dispute in Cedar Grove as well, which intertwines with the murders, all leading to a conclusion of murder and conspiracy mayhem! The spider web of murders and conspiracies are complex, yet all are resolved in a stunning and surprising climax! Very suspenseful and full of twists, this book is an absorbing crime mystery!

The characters in this series are well rounded and dynamic. The character driven plot in this series is intensely addictive. A word of caution: It is necessary to read the series from the beginning. There are MANY references to past events infused throughout the book.

I am always eagerly waiting for the next installment in the Tracy Crosswhite series! In this book we see Tracy adjusting to being a new mother, while balancing her career that she loves. Full of suspense and thrills, once again Robert Dugoni did not disappoint!

Thanks to Thomas & Mercer and Netgalley for this ARC!

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
Another 5 star book in Robert Dugoni's Tracy Crosswhite series! This has quickly become one of my favorite series. There is never a dull moment and I never want to put them down. I always look forward to the next book in the series. If you aren't reading this series, then you definitely should be! Highly recommend!

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This is the seventh book in the Detective Tracy Crosswhite series, I have read them all and was very excited to read this latest installment.

Tracy and her attorney husband Dan have temporarily moved back to Cedar Grove while their home in the big city is being renovated. Tracy and Dan both grew up in Cedar Grove, a small town that is still slower paced than the city they now live in and everyone knows each other. They want their new daughter two month old Daniella to know where her parents grew up and to learn about her family history. Tracy is still on maternity leave, she hasn't decided if she will return to work. Part of her doesn't think she can give up her career but she also knows how dangerous her job can be and she has a child to care for now.

Retired Sheriff Calloway (also best friend to Tracy's father) is back as acting sheriff because the new Sheriff Finlay is on leave. His wife Kimberly died when their house burned to the ground, but the medical examiner finds that she actually died of blunt force trauma to the head, prior to the fire. Sheriff Calloway is also dealing with a old 1993 case, the unsolved murder of eighteen year old Heather Johansen. There is one more unsolved murder, a attorney named Matthews. Matthews was was looking into Heather's murder, he was hired by Heather's parents. The Johansen's however, fired Matthews when he told them some of the rumors he uncovered about Heather. .

Sheriff Roy asks Tracy to help him investigate the three cases. Tracy jumps at the chance which Dan is not too happy about. Meanwhile Dan is representing a merchant from town, Larry Kaufman. Larry Kaufman is suing the town of Cedar Grove. Soon Tracy's cases and Dan's case start to reveal some strange coincidences. They are seeing their hometown in a new light and not happy with the level of corruption they are finding.

Mr. Dugoni has once again delivered a wonderful page turner. He brings the characters to life, there are always enough twists and turns to keep me guessing. I was very surprised at some of the turn of events, especially when the bad guy was revealed. I will be anxiously awaiting the next book by Mr. Dugoni.

I love this series and A cold trail didn't disappoint. The story was well crafted and pulls in the past without alienating the reader who has not read any of the previous books in the series.

Thanks to Thomas & Mercer I was granted copy of this seventh Tracy Crosswhite book for my enjoyment through NetGalley. I have read all of the books in this series featuring a female Seattle homicide detective.
The now happily married and new mother Tracy is on baby leave from her job and the couple is temporarily living in husband Dan's parents' cottage while their home is being remodeled in the Seattle area. Cedar Grove, Washington is thus the location where both grew up and where the 1993 murder of another young girl calls for new investigation after others are killed after looking into it in concert with other suspicious happenings in the town.
"How could so much evil exist in one small town"...
A major real estate scam is linked to the dangerous events, and Tracy's husband Dan is the lawyer bringing the activity to light in the courtroom as attempts on Tracy's life eventuate.

3.5 stars from 5 for me as I have liked a couple of these books more than this highly emotional one.

Tracy Crosswhite and her husband Dan make the trip to their childhood home and are soon immersed into a tangled web of murder, betrayal, and conspiracies.

A series of brutal murder draws Tracy into investigating the cold case connections to a young woman’s death, along with that of Tracy’s sister, while Dan accepts a suspicious case against the city. When Tracy and Dan’s cases show a few too many coincidences, the danger ramps up.

As a killer draws close, Tracy fights not only her own parental instincts, but her husband’s disapproval. With more questions than answers, Tracy’s hunt leads to a surprise ending.

I love a good whodunit, and for the most part this story fit the bill. I did guess who the murderer was and would have liked to have felt a bit more tension throughout the book, but overall a good read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this advanced copy of A Cold Trail- 4 lovely kisses!

Tracy Crosswhite is in the middle of a life transition after having a baby and temporarily relocates to her small hometown to reflect and decide on the next path. But life intervenes and her small hometown secrets blow up to suck in her into a dangerous cold case.

Great addition to the series and if you already like the series you wont be disappointed with this next chapter. I like the new addition of Tracy with a husband and baby and Dugoni merges that into the story in an interesting way.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4

Having a new Robert Dugoni book to read is like opening and savouring your favourite Christmas present or bottle of wine.

A Cold Trail is a Tracy Crosswhite book which makes it even better.

Tracy has had her baby and is doing the local police department a favour to look into looking into a a couple of old murders and a current one . She is also struggling like all new moms with juggling work and home.

The pages turn quickly as you try and follow the trail to who is guilty and how deep are the secrets buried.

Dan in the meantime has his own challenges . Can they somehow be related ?

If you have not read anything by Robert Dugoni, you should add his books to your read pile !!

THanks to Net Galley and the Thomas and Mercer for the opportunity to spend some time in Tracy's world.

I loved the first books in 's series about Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite. Dugoni has now published the seventh book in the series, and in my reviews of the past couple of books, I have suggested that Dugoni should end the series as Crosswhite had become a domesticated, emotional and rather uninteresting character very much unlike the badass gunslinger from the beginning of the series. In fact, in this book, when facing mortal danger, Crosswhite acts like a deer frozen in the headlights of an approaching car.
The plot in this book shows promise but moves along with dragging feet and only becomes remotely interesting in the last quarter of the book when Crosswhite's old detective partner, Faz, comes to her rescue while recovering from the wounds he got in book 6. At the same time, Crosswhite's lawyer husband, Dan, is now such a major character in the series that - combined with Crosswhite's own diminishing role - it is hardly fair to continue to name the series after her alone.
Summing up, if Dugoni hadn't been one of my favorite authors in recent years, I would have deserted this series long ago, and I will repeat my suggestion that Dugoni stops the series now before even his fans turn their backs on it.

Series heroine Tracy, a Seattle cop whose sister's murder introduced her in the first book in Dugoni's popular series, is back in her hometown, digging around in another murder and making some of her old friends and neighbors very nervous They include the past and present sheriff and some real estate speculators who may have more in mind than renovating Main Street, but by the time Tracy figures it all our, this reader didn't really care, either because new mom Tracy doesnt really have her mind on the job or because there's nothing new here

The latest in the Tracy Crosswhite series finds Tracy a new mother struggling with whether she should go back to work or stay home with her daughter. She and Dan have temporarily moved back to Cedar Grove, where they grew up, while their home in the Seattle suburbs is being renovated. While there, she becomes involved in solving a new murder and a cold case murder that may be related.

Robert Dugoni has enriched the two main characters in this story, accurately illustrating the struggles a young couple might have. The mystery is also very good, especially engaging in the later chapters as Dan's civil case becomes important in helping Tracy solve the criminal cases.

I enjoyed reading this novel, A Cold Trail (Tracy Crosswhite #7), my first in the series written by Robert Dugoni. I would read forthcoming novels by this author. “A Cold Trail” is well written, carefully thought out and presented, and interesting. Thank you Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

Intriguing Novel

This is the seventh in a series by Robert Dugoni featuring police detective Tracey Crosswhite. While there are numerous references to past events in Tracey's life, I found it was a compelling read by itself without having read the earlier books.

Tracey is on maternity leave from the Seattle police department. She and her husband Dan plus baby Daniella have returned to Tracey's hometown of Cedar Grove while their city house is being renovated. While she has a lot to do has a stay-home mother, Tracey is recruited by an old friend, the acting Police Chief, to help with the investigation into a couple of murders. Dan meanwhile is retained by the owner of a long established grocery store to repel attempts by the town to expropriate his property as part of a major redevelopment initiative. The acting police chief is substituting for the actual police chief who is on leave grieving the loss of his wife in a fire that consumed their house and was clearly arson (There is suspicion that the police chief may have set the fire).

The chief's wife Kelly was a journalist who was digging into the unsolved murder of a young woman named Heather on a cold winter night some years before. So Tracey is pursuing both murders. There are many twists and turns in the plot as Tracey slowly unravels some of the mysteries to uncover the killer. Meanwhile her husband Dan discovers that the redevelopment of Cedar Grove also hides some dark secrets.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and intend now to read some of the earlier ones in this series.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an Advance Review Copy of this novel

Footnote: I had previously read one other novel by Robert Dugoni, The Eighth Sister, an espionage novel, which I also greatly enjoyed.

Detective Tracy Crosswhite and her attorney Dan O’Leary along with a new baby are in her Hometown..waiting on completion of their home. The town n brings backs bitter feeling and when she is asked by her former Chef to investigate a reporters death who was looking into a cold case.
I have read all the he books on this series this being one of the best. This book keep me Intrigued till the end. I highly recommend this series for those who enjoy reading about strong women and a good mystery.

This newest book by Dugoni is the next chapter in detective Tracey Crosswhite's life. She is now a new mom, out on maternity leave. Temporarily relocated to her hometown of Cedar Grove while her city home is undergoing a remodel, Tracey is once again pulled into a mystery. This time it involves a twenty year old situation involving teenagers, prominent town leaders, and possible misdeeds no one wants revealed. As in earlier books, her good friends from Seattle, Faz and Vera, are helping out with both the baby and the case and providing some light comic relief. We know she'll uncover the answers but how she does it is the fun part; fans will need to read this upcoming release to find out how.

My first Robert Dugoni book, but not my last

The beginning pages set the stage for a cold, dreary winter in Cedar Grove. I felt like I was walking next to Heather right before she was murdered. I enjoyed the characters and felt they were really well developed. I wanted to learn more about them and then realized I was in the middle of a series. If there had been a previous trial for Heather’s murder, in an earlier book, would readers feel alienated by believing the case had already been solved?

I was a bit distracted that the city would just hand over the answers to the interrogatories without the judge ordering them to do so. It seems unlikely this would be ordered before judgment was granted. Why would the city so freely hand over so much information? Finally it was revealed the premise was to bury Dan in information. Maybe I’m the only one who would nit-pick this and maybe I’m wrong. I let that minor irritation go and just enjoyed being in Cedar Grove.

I was surprised about who actually murdered Heather Johansen and Kimberly Armstrong. I would like to read the book about Sarah’s death and try and figure out what happened to Chief Calloway. This is a fun series and I’m excited for the next book. Does Tracy always feel sorry for the defendants or is it just hormones?

While I loved the overall book, the story at times did get a little bit confusing as all of the characters find themselves intertwined at some point or another and it makes it difficult to keep track of who knows who and what.
Tracy Crosswhite returns to Cedar Grove with her husband primarily to stay while their home is being finished. While there, she is asked a favor by local police chief and personal friend to dig into recent events in the town that have left several dead, and that may ultimately be tied to the previous death of Tracy's sister and a local teen years before. As Tracy delves into the case, she discovers a whole web of intricate lies and cover ups over the years. Meanwhile her husband Dan, an attorney, is helping spearhead a case to allow local merchants to keep their properties rather than have them redeveloped into more modern properties. As both stories unfold, they become intertwined. Could the local redevelopment plans have had anything to do with the murders of several of the townspeople? Who ultimately is the murderer? You will have to read to find out, no spoilers here!