

I agreed to review this gem of a short story before I realized its connection to the author’s Tracy Crosswhite series, which I’m starting as a Goodreads group read in January. As Del works the case, he gradually realizes he’s taken on much more than solving two murders. He’s assigned to work his first case with veteran Moss Gunderson who immediately places him as the lead. Visit his website at and follow him on twitter and on Facebook at Delmo (Del) Castigliano leaves Madison, Wisconsin and heartbreak behind to start fresh as a homicide detective with the Seattle Police Department. Robert Dugoni’s books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages.


He has also been a finalist for many other awards including the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest.

Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. He is also the author of The Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and the literary novels, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, for which Dugoni’s narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award and the critically acclaimed, The World Played Chess as well as the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle, which has sold more than 8 million books worldwide.
