The first book in the series that has garnered millions of fans across the globe, from New York Times best-selling author Robert Dugoni. Tracy Crosswhite has spent 20 years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House - a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah’s murder- is the guilty party.

Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers. When Sarah’s remains are finally discovered near their hometown in the northern Cascade mountains of Washington State, Tracy is determined to get the answers she’s been seeking.

As she searches for the real killer, she unearths dark, long-kept secrets that will forever change her relationship to her past - and open the door to deadly danger.

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Listening Length	10 hours and 49 minutes
Author	Robert Dugoni
Narrator	Emily Sutton-Smith
Audible.ca Release Date	November 01 2014
Publisher	Brilliance Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0722TRBMC
Best Sellers Rank	#9,877 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #33 in Legal Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #165 in Women Sleuth Mysteries #199 in Police Procedural Mysteries

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Blend of legal thriller and romantic suspense set in the Cascades

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 23, 2021

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"My Sister’s Grave” is part mystery, part legal thriller, and part romantic suspense. Readers who appreciate any of these genres should enjoy this novel. The setting of the northern Cascades in winter was eloquently described and the narrative was fast -paced. The plot contains twists that will capture the attention of the reader, though I’ll admit I did figure out a few of the plot’s mysteries before they were revealed. The courtroom scenes were believable and well rendered – due, I’m sure, to the fact that the author is also a lawyer.

I intend to read “Her final breath“, the second book in the Tracy Crosswhite series. After reading “My sister’s grave” I bet you will too. Highly recommended!

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New Detective series peaked my interest.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 13, 2015

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Seattle homicide detective, Tracy Crosswhite, learns that her sister's buried remains have been discovered in a shallow grave twenty years after her disappearance. When her sister first disappeared Tracy had been a school teacher whose only involvement with guns was shooting them as a hobby for fun and prizes at various fairs. Returning from one of these shows and in a rush to spend time with her then boyfriend, she allowed her younger sister to borrow her car and drive herself home. Their parents were vacationing in Hawaii so Tracy took a chance and told her sister to stick to the main highway and not take the short cut through the back roads. That is the last time Tracy saw her sister alive. Her car was found abandoned on a back road. A previously convicted rapist was quickly apprehended, tried and convicted of the murder, even without a body. Tracy found the evidence lacking and suspect. She opened her own investigation which lasted ten years, during which time, she became a Seattle policewoman and eventually homicide detective. The case was closed as far as her small town was concerned, the accused was in prison and eventually she felt she had no more leads unless or until her sister's body would be discovered. So when this happenes, she reopens her own investigation convinced that the man in jail had been found guilty on false evidence and perjury by several of the witnesses. The story picks up the pace when an old classmate of hers, moves back to her home town and hangs out his shingle. He's the lawyer she needs to have the case reopened based on the new evidence she uncovered. I found her writing and plot twists reminiscent of John Grisham, combining mystery, mayhem and court room drama all rolled into one.

I was delighted to find a new detective series to get my teeth into and look forward to the next installment.. Thank you Robert Dugoni.

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A great legal mystery

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 23, 2022

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The characters come alive in the words. Makes you want to devour the book at a breakneck speed. An Author worth following.

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Linda

Tray Crosswaite Mystery

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 23, 2021

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Not a bad beginning to a series. The story was engaging and kept me entertained. I look forward to reading more in this series.

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Terri B

Glad I found it!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 19, 2017

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Awesome awesome awesome. There's something about Robert Dugoni's style that drew me to "My Sister's Grave". He writes as the voice of Tracy Crosswhite in such a way that I can actually hear her talking to me. His ability to switch from the past to the present is so smooth that it truly becomes a shared memory.

You'll catch on fairly early that something is not right but the twists & turns Dugoni throws into the story will leave you feeling like "I did NOT see that coming". Start this book only when you have a few hours to spare because if you're like me, you'll find it near impossible to put down.

I'm glad I'm finally finished tho... it's time to start his next book: "Her Final Breath". Great. Another nite w/ no sleep!

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Santa Claus

Love these Tracy Crosswhite stories.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 3, 2021

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Excellent excellent book.

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Kindle Customer Gary Dufour

great read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 17, 2021

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I use my reader while I am at therapy. This book kept me guessing right from the onset about who did what and why. A never boring take. I need to get another read like this. Well done

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3bunnies

Good story. Ending rushed. Will read more of the series.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 16, 2017

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This story grabbed my attention at the beginning. Partway through things seemed to get a little slower, but still enjoyed. I loved that the Kindle edition was not full of editing issues and typos, etc.
My only two complaints would be that I found characters were not introduced into the story well, causing some initial confusion. Also I found the ending lacking. It seemed very rushed for how long the rest of the book was. I will definitely be reading more of this series.

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Paul S

Two terrific novels by Robert Dugoni for lovers of police procedural crime thrillers.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 2, 2018

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Please note that while I have reported to Amazon that my review of Robert Dugoni novel 'My Sister's Grave' also appears under his novel 'Her Final Breath', I have been told the books are linked and so I cannot leave separate reviews for each book. As a result, I provide a review of 'My Sister's Grave' first and follow it with a review of 'Her Final Breath'. I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Review of My Sister's Grave:
Headline: A brilliant, police procedural & legal thriller that is deceptively easy to read & one that you'll find hard to put down.
When I was at school I remember some teachers of English literature asking me what a book was about and I would say (for example) "It's a story about a murder and the search for the murderer" ... to which they would reply (much to my annoyance), "Yes, Paul, but what is it REALLY about?". Reading this terrific story reminded me of those school days as on one level this is a relatively straightforward story about a police investigation into a cold case and the courtroom drama that follows. However, there is so much more to this story than that. This is a story about relationships, guilt and the search for justice.
'My Sister's Grave' is a very well written book. The setting is very atmospheric; set in winter in a small town in the United States, it focuses on the ramifications following the accidental discovery of the body of Sarah Crosswhite, some twenty years after she had disappeared. Tracy Crosswhite, her older sister, has never got over feeling responsible for the disappearance of Sarah, to whom she was devoted. It affected her life, her marriage and her subsequent choice of career. Now, on hearing the news that her sister's body has been found, Tracy hopes that the police will be able to find the real killer as she is convinced that the man who had been convicted for her murder had been convicted on hearsay and somewhat questionable evidence. The story follows Tracy, now a detective, as she returns to her hometown to follow the investigation and to participate in the court hearing regarding whether or not the original sentence should be quashed. It also explores the ramifications that the discovery has on those residents who, while still alive today, were involved in the original investigation.
The story flits between the past and the present but it is not difficult to follow. There are a few red herrings and a number of moments of high drama and tension as the story unfolds, with the courtroom scenes being particularly dramatic. In this respect the story is riveting and once 'hooked' I just could not put it down.
But for me, this story is more than just a police procedural and legal thriller. The author has captured a sense of the emotional bond that can exist between siblings (or sisters in this case) and the lasting impact and feelings of guilt that an action for which a person holds themselves responsible, has on their life. It also questions the relationships between the police and the judiciary. It examines how different people react when faced with a possible miscarriage of justice and a need to 'put things right'. And it also raises the issue of whether it is possible to trust oneself to become emotionally attached to another person following the experience of a marriage that had not survived a traumatic event.
So while one can really enjoy this story as a relatively straightforward police procedural and legal thriller (and with a hint of romance thrown into the mix), for me it went much further. It has certainly left me wanting to read more of the books in the Tracy Crosswhite series by Robert Dugoni.

Review of 'Her Final Breath'
Headline: A terrific crime thriller that has a gripping plot and great characterisation.
'Her Final Breath' is a brilliant follow-up novel to 'Her Sister's Grave', but it is not essential to have read the first book in the series as there are sufficient references to it in this novel to ensure one understands Tracy's back-story and why she reacts to certain situations in the way she does.
The main aspects of this novel that impressed me are (1) its writing - a real page turner of a story that is easy to read and follow; (2) the characterisation - all the characters are totally believable, including the bad guys and (3) the plot - very dramatic and increasingly so as it nears its dramatic climax.
One thing to be aware of is that the story contains a lot of characters and a number of possible suspects for the crime ... this should not be a problem if you have a good memory!
The plot follows Tracy's efforts to find a serial killer. It has plenty of twists and turns and 'false leads' and some shenanigans by her boss just to add further complexity and tension.
In short, this is a terrific story and it has resulted in my buying the next book in the series!

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Siltone

A cracking start to the Tracy Crosswhite series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 17, 2020

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Yeah, I know, I'm rather late to the party when it comes to reading/reviewing this thriller from Robert Dugoni, which came out way back in 2014. Interestingly, I had previously read another superb novel by this writer entitled: The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, which isn't a thriller at all, instead it's a beautiful piece of literature - which just goes to show that this author has many strings to his bow when it comes to penning a story. Anyway, that book whetted my appetite for reading further novels by Mr Dugoni.

In My Sister's Grave, the reader is introduced to Tracy Crosswhite, a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, who had interestingly once been a chemistry teacher in the small town where she was raised, at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. In the opening pages, we discover that Tracy had a younger sister who had gone missing twenty years previous. Although her sister was never found, someone did own up to abducting and murdering her. That 'someone' is Edmund House who was charged, and later found guilty of Sarah's murder, he has subsequently spent the last two decades behind bars. However, all these years later a female body has been found, and this discovery potentially reveals 'new' evidence, which brings into question the original validity of House's guilty verdict.

I really got pulled into this thriller. It's cleverly constructed, and doesn't follow the usual clichéd paths that you find in so many crime novels these days. I thought the characters were very well drawn. Tracy is a likeable female protagonist, whom I quickly warmed to. She's hard around the edges, but beneath that tough exterior is someone who can be sensitive and vulnerable at times, especially demonstrated when she has to recall the circumstances of her younger sister's disappearance. This is definitely one of those stories that hits the ground running, tension is maintained throughout, and it reassuringly doesn't lead you where you expect it to. I'm also pleased to say that it reaches a satisfactory conclusion. Being the first in a series, means one or two avenues are still left open to explore in further novels. One such story arc concerns Sarah's love life - as in, will she or won't she continue her romance with Dan, the childhood friend she reunites with in My Sister's Grave? I look forward to the next instalment to find out......

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Lalla

good read but ending not stellar

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 19, 2022

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I enjoyed the plot and the writing. I read the book in one go and while I thought I had everything guessed, I was actually only half right. So for me it was a page turner. The characters were believable, if a little stereotyped. The storyline was good, allowing for some suspension of disbelief as to why nobody said anything about what was going on, the explanation given was a bit thin. But what annoys me of these books is this: it must be Detective/FBI training 101 that says “when you are hunting a psychopath, make sure that you follow him alone at night, especially if you are female, down to the remote shack where he lives and especially if you know there is no mobile cover and/or your mobile is dead”. Please! A more original ending next time!

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The Bagster

In the end, it’s just “meah”

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 11, 2021

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This book is well written. I didn’t find a single typo or other error of the kind that turn up far too frequently these days. (Recently, I started to read a book published by Faber who, of all people, ought to be turning out immaculate books and found within 10 pages that someone was said to have given his assent to something – but assent was spelt ascent. I put the book down and never picked it up again). My Sister’s Grave has plenty of movement and zips along nicely. The motivations are good and the plotting is clever. And yet, I’m only giving it 2 stars. Why? There are two problems that simply shouldn’t be there. The first is a bit of laziness that an author of this quality should never be guilty of: in the middle of a blizzard, with power out and phones down everywhere, the female cop goes ALONE to the abandoned mine where she KNOWS a psychopath who once killed her sister is now hiding out, waiting for the cop. I hate this. This writer is good enough to have found a different way to skin this cat and I can only assume he lacked sufficient respect for his readers. The second is that we are told over and over again that things were done the way they were done to prevent the cop feeling guilt over her sister’s death. The cop confirms that, if she had known what people hadn’t told her, she would feel guilty in a way that would be completely incapacitating for her. They tell her. And there’s no sign of guilt whatsoever. Oh, I don’t mean that the author doesn’t suggest that the cop is feeling guilty – but there’s no attempt to show that to us. When an author who could be really good turns out something like this, I’m not going to give him 5 stars. I’m not giving him 4, or 3, either. He disappointed me and I don’t get the feeling that he cares one little bit.

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My new obsession...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 30, 2021

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Very impressed with this book & absolutely thrilled that it's the first in a long series... Tracy Crosswhite is my new obsession...

There is definitely a difference in male crime writers compared to female ones especially when the protagonist is female & I'm loving the realistic, relatable way Dugoni portrays Tracy... He's given her depth, character & emotions that I thought only a female author could truly excel at...

The descriptions for each scene were vivid but not overly detailed; I felt drawn in like I could picture everything but he didn't have to use flowery waffle to do so - a true skill

The plot itself was intriguing & I loved the slow reveal of the ending & effortless intertwining of current scenes with flashbacks

Great book but only 4 stars because there's always room for improvement... Personally I didn't like the fact that we didn't get a conclusion to her Seattle case, also I need to know that her & Dan have a future - it was too open-ended for me... But other than that, fantastic book - just about to download the next in the series!

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