Make Up Reading

Another wonderful Tracy Crosswhite novel. Every time I open a Tracy Crosswhite novel I get excited. I would put Tracy right up there next to Kinsey Milhone as my favorite female leads in a mystery series. This novel did not let me down for the most part.  Before, I get into the mystery let me say what I really liked and the one or two things I felt the need to nit pick a bit. Things I loved? I think one of the best parts of this novel was the bumped up roles of the rest of the A team. We got some good quality time with Faz and Del as well as some good moments with Tracy and Dan and with Tracy and her partner Kins. I liked that Tracy realized in this book that she is not alone, that the A team are her family. Heck, even Nolasco had an actual bit of good advice. My main little nit pick? It is kind of silly but, Tracy's whole watching everything she put in her mouth thing. That is something new added to the series and I just found it to be a bit annoying. It didn't fit her charac...

I really love the Tracy Crosswhite series. I read "My Sister's Grave" last summer and enjoyed it so much and was waiting for the new book. I was so pleasantly surprised by the first novel. Tracy, Dan and their world completely won me over. I feel that if you are reading what I would consider darker mystery it is important to really like and care about the main characters. I kind of befriend the main characters in a book series and enjoy each and every visit with them. Robert Dugoni's second Crosswhite book was even better than the first. "Her Final Breath" revisits the murder Tracy was investigating in the first book before she had to leave. In the first book we find out about Tracy's past and visit her home town in the new book we see what Tracy's world in Seattle is like, we meet her partner and the other cops she works with. We meet her cat Roger and of course we follow her as she solves the mystery. I have not liked a character as much as Tracy s...