By Robert Dugoni
Tracy Crosswhite has spent two decades wondering the evidence surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the homicide trial that undefined. She doesn’t think that Edmund House—a convicted rapist and the guy condemned for Sarah’s murder—is the accountable celebration. stimulated through the chance to procure genuine justice, Tracy grew to become a murder detective with the Seattle PD and devoted her lifestyles to monitoring down killers.
When Sarah’s continues to be are eventually came upon close to their homeland within the northern Cascade mountains of Washington kingdom, Tracy is set to get the solutions she’s been looking. As she searches for the genuine killer, she reveals darkish, long-kept secrets and techniques that might perpetually switch her courting to her past—and open the door to lethal possibility.
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That won't last long, though. " "Well, Skeeter," said Will Henry, "I guess we better get our money's worth out of you while we can. " "That's exactly what I'm going to do, boy, after I give you the benefit of my experience. " He pOinted to-the rear of the new building. "Hugh, I'd make the jail just as deep as the firehouse, but maybe not as wide. Will Henry don't have. to get a fire engine in it. I'd put four cells back there at the back, about eight by eight apiece. That may sound like a lot, but the first rowdy Saturday night you have you'll wish you had more.