Huge disappointment!

Tracy and Dan move back to Cedar Grove while their home is being remodeled, Tracy is on maternity leave daughter is 2 months old, hire a nanny, get involved with a police cold case

So that's the outline of this book, Dugoni is just not a 'great' writer for me, he inserts too much description of everything you just don't need and has nothing absolutely nothing to do with the story!
1. Baby-cries, poops so change diaper, whimpers, eats, cries, poops, whimpers, eats, over and over WHO CARES!
2. Tracy takes on case without consulting Dan--hard feelings finally smoothed over, REPEAT REPEAT
3. Nanny is wonderful! over and over, then almost gets killed so removed from the picture
4. Dan has his own case-lots and lots of descriptions that are just brain numbing boring

So there will always be the reference to Tracy sister that got killed--alright already let's move on but Dugoni has to repeat and repeat about it
The cold case Tracy takes on is just another investigation that has descriptions and pages and pages of italic print back history of the case, I finally skipped all that

I basically just found this installment of this series just long drawn out mess with descriptions galore (pet peeve) that are just boring and really not necessary or you can pick out from all those pages any sentence you might find you need but I didn't need any so I skipped and skimmed a lot of pages and didn't miss a thing
There is always a point in a book that you can usually figure out the who and maybe just need the why, in this case? the why? stupid really stupid

I looked up the next book and I think I'll pass, it's just another cold case and of course that means a lot of back history (probably in italics) with boring boring pages of descriptions

I think I'm done with this series!

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While on maternity leave, Tracy and her husband Dan return to their hometown for a short stay. Dan is the attorney representing Larry Kaufmann, a local citizen who is suing the city whose revitalization efforts will put him out of business. Meanwhile, Acting Police Chief Roy Calloway asks Tracy to help him investigate the murder of local reporter Kimberly Armstrong. Kimberly was investigating the twenty-year-old murder of Heather Johansen. The main suspect in Armstrong's death is her husband who is also the current police chief.

This was a solid entry into the Tracy Crosswhite series. Most of the information on Dan's case comes out in a series of cross-examinations on the witness stand. I thought this part of the story was slow. Tracy's investigation has a better pace. Seattle Detective Vic Fazzio and his wife Vera also make an appearance in this book. My rating: 4 Stars.

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