What She Found
What She Found (Tracy Crosswhite, #9)
By: Robert Dugoni
“I want the truth, Detective. Whatever that may be. Even if finding out what happened to my mother means losing my father.”
The next book in the Tracy Crosswhite series!
It was kind of a comfort to come back and read another book in this series. I’ve been reading a lot of popular books but have been disappointed with some of the content. I like that when I read a Dugoni book it’s generally pretty clean, not a lot of profanity or sexual content.
This was a typical police procedural thriller where the main character is investigating a case.
The previous book showed Crosswhite being demoted to the Cold Case Department. And that’s where she still is.
In What She Found, Crosswhite is approached by Anita Childress, asking her to look into her mother’s case.
Her autistic mother, Lisa, disappeared when Anita was two (25 years ago). She was a really good reporter who often investigated cases without disclosing any details to her boss at the newspaper. Her husband was suspected of killing her but there was not enough evidence to convict.
It became a cold case.
Would Lisa really walk away from her family?
Would they find her body buried somewhere?
What could have caused anyone to murder her?
When Crosswhite discovers the cases Lisa was working on at the time of her disappearance, she must decide if it’s worth it to drudge up old crimes that may involve corruption in her very own police department.
When it comes to reviewing books in a series there’s not a lot to comment on. It’s the ninth book in the series and if you’re reading this one, you’ve probably read other books and know what to expect.
If you’ve never read a book in this series, you should! (The ones I’ve read and reviewed are linked below)
I will make a few comments of some of the things discussed.
First, it’s mentioned that the term ‘Asperger’s’ is no longer politically correct. Hans Aspberger was a paediatrician in Austria. Recent information has come to light indicating he worked with the Nazi’s euthanasia program, possibly for low functioning people. I had not heard this before.
I recently read a book, On the Spectrum, that was very enlightening to me to help me understand autistics and I would recommend it.
Second, taking place near Seattle and revolving around the police force, there is some commentary on the ‘defund the police’ initiatives, which is kind of interesting to think about it from the perspective of a police officer in terms of how they handle publicity of certain cases.
This was an interesting quote from the book:
“‘They won’t defund,’ Melton said. ‘They’ll talk a good game about things like sending social workers into domestic disputes, but not one of those social workers is going in without an officer, and as soon as everyone realizes that downtown Seattle is now a graveyard, the way it was in the 1980s, and homicides and gun violence are up, the pendulum will swing back the other direction. It always does. Money talks, and tourism is going to take a huge hit.’”
Defunding the police has always been a baffling topic to me. Probably because ‘defund’ is not a clear or helpful term for what they actually mean. But either way, something to think about.
Lastly, some random, less serious comments:
“she noted the time in the lower right corner of her computer”…. she is not a Mac user!
Is it harder to solve crimes in Seattle because of all the rain washing away evidence so quickly??
“she wet paper towels and cleaned off her daughter’s hands and mouth”… this is a clear ‘this book was written by a man’ detail because there are these really handy things called wipes and are more convenient and effective thing to use to clean up your child. Unless other moms do this… I don’t know, but it grosses me out.
Tracy’s husband, Dan, buys a gazebo from Costco because they were on sale and he saved $600. I am a recent convert to Costco and I understand this sentence deep in my soul.
Tracy says one of the hardest things for prisoners to get used to is the constant noise. And I had never thought about that before. So if I needed another reason to try to avoid prison, I’ve got it. Phew.
In conclusion, I liked this book and I’m looking forward to the next one. Seems like Tracy is going to stay on cold cases for awhile so we’ll see what case she solves next!
[Profanity: 0 f-words, 22 s-words]
**Received an ARC via NetGalley**
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