I haven't read any of this series before. I liked the idea of a cold case investigation. Tracy was a strong female lead character which is always good, I wouldn't say I found her likeable, maybe it was just this book and the case she was investigating. I found the book dragged in places and had lots of dialogue which isn't my cup of tea. I would recommend this to others if they like a police series and I would dip in and try another one.

What She Found is the ninth book in the Tracy Crosswhite series by best-selling award-winning American author, Robert Dugoni. With her successes in her new role as the Cold Case detective being publicised, Tracy Crosswhite is asked by Seattle Times journalist, Anita Childress to look into the disappearance of her mother, then a Seattle Post-Intelligencer journalist, twenty-four years earlier.

In late February, 1996, after a phone call, Lisa Childress went out in the early hours to meet a source and never returned. Was she abducted by someone that one of her powerful hard-hitting news articles would damage? Did she leave of her own accord? Or did her husband murder her? It was this last that Seattle Detective Moss Gunderson settled on and pursued, without result.

While she suspects that Lisa is probably dead, Tracy decides not to reject any of the possibilities. Photos and a police sketch of Lisa as she would now look go onto a web page appealing for information. Lisa was working on four investigations at the time: a corrupt ex-mayor, a mayoral candidate facing accusations of impropriety, the Route 99 serial killer, and cops skimming off drug busts.

After some preliminary calls and interviews, it seems the police corruption around the drug busts is most worth a detailed follow up. But her colleague, Detective Del Castigliano, whose first murder case is closely related, is uncharacteristically evasive, and Detective Vic Fazio warns her that those covering up such a situation wouldn’t hesitate at violence: she should watch her back.

Tracy realises that city authorities might also have a stake in keeping things quiet to avoid what could be a national embarrassment of the highest order. In typical Tracy Crosswhite fashion, she doggedly pursues every lead, does some intelligent detective work, and eventually, she’s pretty sure she knows what happened, but she doesn’t have any credible evidence to prove it.

Dugoni offers another tightly plotted police procedural and just when the reader thinks they know where the story is going, he throws in an excellent twist. While not essential, reading the short story The Last Line first does enhance the enjoyment of this novel. Brilliant crime fiction, once again.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Thomas and Mercer.

This is the 9th entry in the Tracy Crosswhite series, and it hasn’t lost its luster. Even away from the A team, working cold cases, she still manages to be amazing and close cases. The daughter of a journalist who’s been missing for 25 years asks Tracy to find out what happened and, being reminded of her own personal struggle to solve the murder of her sister, she can’t refuse. There are three possibilities, she left, the husband did it or one of the articles she was writing threatened someone. This was back when journalists still researched stories - there were also payphones. Never in a million years did I figure out what was going to happen, so I really enjoyed the plot. The name of the missing journalist and one of her stories sounded familiar and then I remembered, there is an excellent Amazon short story about it. So it was nice for Tracy to work on this case. The one thing I worried about when Tracy became a unit of one was how it would hurt her funny repartee with her former team but, in this book at least, that’s not an issue. I missed Kins, who is away at trial, but it is always nice to hear from Del and Faz. This book was slightly more political than previous volumes. As a reader who doesn’t want any aspect of the real world polluting her entertainment, it wasn’t my favorite part but I guess it’s inevitable nowadays. I did like the fact that no pandemic affects Tracy’s universe. The final part was maybe a little disappointing but I guess it was realistic. I can’t wait to see where some of the cans of worms opened here take these characters.
I chose to read this book and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Thank you, #NetGalley/#Thomas & Mercer!

3.5 rounded up to 4

I discovered this series on Amazon Prime Reading because it was available as audio (the only reason Prime Reading interested me) and I listened to the first 4 or 5 books within a week. I probably said much of what I’ll say now when I reviewed the eighth book in the series last year.

In this installment, Tracy (chemistry teacher turned Seattle Police Detective whose life was defined by her sister’s disappearance) continues as a team of one in the Cold Case department and investigates the case of a murdered man, the disappearance/presumed murder of an investigative reporter, and what it has to do with a mysterious police task force.

What I enjoy about these books is that the plot is complex enough to keep you guessing and is not far-fetched. I like Tracey, and still would if she were not blonde, beautiful and brilliant and ‘having it all’… The series is undemanding, entertaining yet not at the sake of a good plot. It’s like watching a procedural series: the same characters return and they evolve over the years, you know who is good/bad and you know it’s going to turn out alright in the end. Speaking of: I don’t know why Kinsington wasn’t in this book - it really was like a series when the actor is unavailable so they make an excuse for why he’s not there.

In this book in particular I started to notice a lot of repetition. Tracey explaining the situation to multiple people, separately. Several people giving her the same advice, separately. The plot did stall for a while. There are also some rather heavy-handed attempts to be inclusive of a wider range of characters/issues, but well, this is not great literature; it’s escapism, to the world where the police are always the good guys (except when there’s corruption but our heroes will flush that out).

What She Found started out strong but fell into a spiral of repetition and demonstration. I enjoyed the case, but this was not one of the better books in the series. However, I’ll still be first in line for number 10.

'What She Found' is the latest book in Robert Dugoni's Tracy Crosswhite series and is a good one. In this one Tracy finds herself investigating a cold case involving a missing newspaper reporter. It is more than a little of what it seems. Tracy looks into deals with an old drug enforcement group called The Last Line and interviews some now retired cops to discover what has happened to a young woman who disappeared while doing investigative reporting that was linked to the group. The disappearance is mysterious. All logic points to the husband as the perpetrator but some things don't add up. In addition, Tracy gets crossways with her boss, the chief of police. Thru it all Tracy finds some allies in the cop world and some on the street that provide clues to the mystery and what actually happened to the missing woman. This book is a good read from the creative mind of Robert Dugoni. While it is part of a series, I had not read the preceding books and it worked well for a good read as a stand-alone novel. If you like twisty thrillers and good cop/bad cop stories this is one you won't want to miss. Thanks to #NetGalley#WhatSheFound for the opportunity to read and review this book.

he was meant to be a voice for those who no longer had one. She was meant to find justice, in whatever form she could for the families left behind.

I have pretty much invested in this series of Tracy Crosswhite. She always finds the answer, she is loyal to the T and she has a small but strong support group in her husband and co workers. That is the common thread in the series which I gravitate towards. Crosswhite is now in the cold cases and she is very articulate on the cases she picks. This one is different. A reporter from 25 years ago was a young mother, a wife, and autistic. Her disappearance created a hole in her families life. Her husband was a major suspect and her daughter grew up without a mother. Her daughter has asked for Crosswhite for help in finding out what exactly happened to her mother.

I like a thriller that I feel like I am right there in the thick of things. I appreciate the methodically way a case begins and then progresses. If you have read a few Dugoni's books, he does have a cadence that I find appealing. Is it predictable? Yes and no. Yes but the no becomes I want to know more. And yes you are rewarded with more!

A special thank you to Thomas & Mercer and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

Another excellent plot from this author, along with great storytelling and characters. A book that's very entertaining and easy to read.

Name of Book: What She Found
Series: Tracy Crosswhite #9
Author: Robert Dugoni
Publisher: Tomas & Mercer
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Pub Date: August 20, 2022
My Rating: 4.3 Stars!

Although only my sixth Robert Dugoni novel, he is a fav.
This is number nine in the Tracy Crosswhite series. Tracy is a Seattle detective who takes on cold cases typically involving missing women.

This story takes place a few months after the events that took place in the last story "In Her Tracks".
Anita Childress, a young newspaper reporter asks Tracy to look into the disappearance of her mother Lisa Childress who vanished twenty-four years ago.
At that time, the police suspected Lisa’s husband, but the case went cold.

I read a lot of psychological thrillers ~ I love the twists and turns. This is not a psychological thriller but probably one of the most unique as well as very interesting reads for me!.

Robert Dugoni tells us in his ‘Acknowledgements' that he got the idea for a story about amnesia as it is frightening yet fascinating. He personally suffered a stroke and was terrified that he would lose his memory.
The stroke actually turned out to be a good thing as the doctors discovered his stoke was cause by a blood clot from a valve that didn’t close at birth.

Needless to say, we are all grateful that he didn’t lose his memory.
I certainly am looking forward to Tracy Crosswhite Book #10!

Want to thank NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for this early uncorrected eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for August 20, 2022

Outstanding book. I highly recommend it. Just when you think you have it resolved a plot twist sends it into another direction. Characters are well developed and likable. Great read. Get it soon.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my copy of this book.

Detective Tracey Whitecross is busy working cold cases, when Anita Childress asks her to look into the disappearance of her mother 25 years ago.

As Tracey investigates more and more about this story comes to light. How is Lisa Childress’s disappearance linked to the deaths of two crewmen and who in the police force is corrupt and covering up? What does the ‘last line’ have to do with it all?

This is a well written story that keeps you guessing right up until a major plot twist right at the end.

I’ve loved this series and this didn’t disappoint.

This is the latest in Robert Dugoni's much loved Seattle based crime series featuring SPD's Tracy Crosswhite, now working on cold cases that offer her the opportunity of more normal working hours so that she can spend more time with her family, lawyer Dan, and her young daughter, Daniela. With her recent successes, Tracy finds herself fronting a media campaign to improve the image of the police when she is approached by reporter Anita Childress. 25 years ago when she was 2 years old, her well regarded socially awkward investigative journalist mother, Lisa, working for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, disappeared after setting out at night to meet an informant. Assumed to be murdered, Anita's father, Larry, had his life ruined as he became the prime suspect in a police inquiry that did not look into the 4 below the radar exclusives that Lisa was chasing, including looking into police officers from The Last Line taskforce thought to be skimming money from drugs busts. Her city editor, Bill Jorgensen, knew nothing of what Lisa was working on, relying on her ability to come up with the goods when it mattered.

Anita wants to know the truth of what happened to her mother, although she hopes her father's name will be cleared after his decades of living under a cloud of suspicion. The loss of her mother left a huge hole in Anita's life and it led to her following in Lisa's footsteps by becoming a journalist too. With her own traumatic past, Tracy cannot help but feel for Anita, and this is what she does, look into cold cases with a remarkable degree of success. So begins a complicated investigation that ends up with unexpected surprises and is to test Tracy's resilience when she finds herself on the path of conflict as she clashes with a Chief of Police who insists that she drops the case. As Tracy worries about what involvement Del and Faz have in her inquiry, she pursues leads gathered from interviews conducted with the likes of the colourful hippie Dennis Hopper with his razor sharp memory, and the imprisoned Captain Jack Flynt, the skipper of the Egregious, who tells of a raid that was never reported and 2 dead Mexican crew members.

However, although the truth begins to become clear, the problem is that Tracy has no proof and she stands to lose the professional career that she loves so much. This was a riveting addition to this brilliant series, well written and well plotted, with levels of suspense and tension that had me turning the pages as fast as possible, desperate to find out how it all ends. Fans of the series are likely to love this, and I encourage other readers of the crime and mystery genre to acquaint themselves with Seattle and Tracy Crosswhite too. Many thanks to the publisher for an ARC.

This was a very good installment of the Detective Tracy Crosswhite series. Tracy is approached by the adult daughter of a woman who disappeared and was presumed to be murdered 24 years ago. This is obviously one of a series and my biggest problem with it is that there wasn't the final resolution that I expected. It was like a soap opera where it is apparent that more will be mentioned in later installments. A big thing for me was the Irish accent that an American character had. Tracy has an Irish nanny and. the character likely came into contact with Irish people in her life, but nobody bothered to find out what part of Ireland her accent came from.

This is good if you don't need everything tied up at the end. I actually thought there was another chapter coming. Nope.

I love the Tracy Crosswhite character and these stories never feel stale or boring. This one was just as fast paced and interesting as the others.

This entry to the series has Detective Crosswhite looking into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress at the behest of her daughter, Anita. After 25 years though, there are few possibilities—none with what would appear to have a positive outcome.

Lisa was full-tilt into an extremely dangerous investigation. She was to meet someone in the middle of the night that might have exposed corruption within the police department. It was Lisa’s husband, however, that became the local police focal point of her disappearance.

Chief of Police Marcella Weber may be a stumbling block in Crosswhite’s digging into the Childress case as her directive is to investigate only those cases where new DNA evidence is found.

Crosswhite is surrounded by engaging support characters as well as a successful, supportive hubby and sweet baby girl. But she has a history and Crosswhite is driven to find the answers to the Childress case whether she secures approval or not.

I loved the well-plotted narrative and the conclusion is satisfying. Dugoni’s novels are well-paced and deliver leads that keep the reader engaged. They are always intelligent, offering learning opportunities as well as insight into strong characters and motives. Easy to invest in Crosswhite, follow her discoveries, look for the next, and applaud her victories.

I’m thrilled to see a new Dugoni book come up, one of this series that can be read as a standalone or his Charles Jenkins series.

Another great installment in the Tracy Crosswhite series. I randomly picked up book one of the series at my local library, and from that point forward, I have been hooked on this series and look forward to when a new book comes out each year.

Tracy is now investigating cold cases, and she is presented with the case of Lisa Childress, an investigative reporter who disappeared 25 years ago after she agreed to meet with an informant. Lisa's daughter, Anita, was two years old when her mother disappeared, and now she has done her own research as a local journalist and would like to learn what happened. Anita certainly holds out hope that her mother could still be alive, but after 25 years, that is looking less and less likely. With Tracy on the case, you know that she will discover the truth, and you will get a good story to go along with it.

I enjoyed the different layers to the story and how they weaved in what Lisa was investigating at the time of her disappearance and tied it to what was happening in current time. I can't wait to continue reading more about Tracy, her family, and her police colleagues as they investigate more cold cases in Seattle.

Thank you to Thomas & Mercer for the opportunity to read and review.

Tracy Crosswhite is settled into the cozy routine of being a mother and wife in Seattle as well as trying to get along with co-workers in the police department, but has that ever gone well? This book features a cold case revolving around a determined hard working female journalist who vanished. Her grown daughter contacts Tracy and asks for a fresh investigation. The daughter has followed in her mother's career path and wants to know the truth as to whether her mother was killed or just disappeared. She has figured she would find a champion in Tracy knowing her background in seeking the truth about her sister.
This turns out to be a gnarly, challenging task that Tracy takes on resulting in her suspension. It makes for a good cold case investigation that eventually finds a resolution to the client's satisfaction.
I have read all of the Crosswhite books and recommend starting earlier in the series for full enjoyment.

I received this book from NetGalley for my unbiased review.

Robert Dugoni is a great writer, and once again he delivers.

Tracy Crosswhite is a detective charged with cold cases. In this book she takes on a case that evolves to include a lot more than she originally expected. She takes it on despite the chance of personal loss. It is a full of twists and turns and is once again a great read for the team of Dugoni and Crosswhite.

Looking forward to more!

I don't know how Dugoni does it, year and after, serial after serial, book after book. But when a Dugoni book pops up for me, I know it is time to set aside the rest of the day for nothing will keep me from a cat and mouse chase exploding into an upside down roller coaster. In his ninth book about Tracy Crosswhite, this Seattle homicide detective is now the one person head of cold cases. When Anita Childress, an investigative reporter approaches her asking her to look into the disappearance of her mother from an incident 25 years ago, Tracy does not know that this will come at a cost to her personal work relationships and her own job authority. Anita felt that the police department took the easy way out and blamed her father, ignoring evidence and quickly closing the case. As Tracy cleverly delves into this unsolved case, she unspools murder, sex molestation, police corruption, and drug dealing.... far more than a simple disappearance. Skillfully executed, Tracy wraps up the investigation but not without sticking to her own moral code. Perhaps that is why I am so drawn to her character. In an age where all I see is a lack of morality and integrity, she makes me believe in a better world.

My thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review an ARC of What She Found. Expected publication date - Aug 23rd 2022

Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress, at the request of Lisa’s daughter, Anita. But after 25 years, the odds of her still being alive are slim.

Tracy is faced with reopening the extremely dangerous investigations that Lisa was following on the night she disappeared, including rumors of a city councilman’s criminal sex life; a drug task force scandal and the crooked police involved and an elusive serial killer.

Both Lisa and Anita have to be prepared to face whatever the truth might be and the high price to pay from uncovering decade long secrets.

What I loved...
📚 This was my first Robert Dugoni novel and I was very pleasantly surprised... not just from the content but that this author had seemingly slipped under my radar. It was an excellently paced thriller with a great plotline that constantly kept unfolding and revealing more details with every page!
📚 I was a little sceptical when I realised that this was the 9th book featuring Tracy Crosswhite and an ongoing series. But I loved that this novel delivered successfully as a stand-alone book and I'm excited to check out the previous offerings!

What I didn't love...
📚 The overall pace sometimes lost momentum and felt a bit rambling over minute details.
📚 Was not a fan of Weber as a character. Won't say too much to spoil anything but I thought the character a little underdeveloped and a missed opportunity

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You know a series is exceptional when this is the ninth book and it still manages to impress you.

Detective Tracy Crosswhite is now assigned to working cold cases and is approached by a woman looking for answers as to what happened to her mother who vanished 20+ years ago (she was an investigative reporter). Tracy always commits to any case she is asked to look into and is like a dog with a bone- relentless. As she goes over the events leading up to this woman’s disappearance, she learns this reporter was about to expose criminal activity by some important people- there seems to be more to her disappearance than anyone realized.

This was another solid police procedural story and I absolutely look forward to following Tracy Crosswhite on her next assignment. Thanks Robert Dugoni for this suspenseful series and thank you Thomas & Mercer for this ARC. What She Found is available 8/23/22.