Review "In Dugoni’s outstanding fourth Tracy Crosswhite mystery, the Seattle homicide detective investigates the death of Andrea Strickland, a young woman whose body a fisherman finds in a crab pot raised from the sea...In less deft hands this tale wouldn’t hold water, but Dugoni presents his victim’s life in discrete pieces, each revealing a bit more about Andrea and her struggle to find happiness. Tracy’s quest to uncover the truth leads her into life-altering peril in this exceptional installment." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “Dugoni drills so deep into the troubled relationships among his characters that each new revelation shows them in a disturbing new light… an unholy tangle of crimes makes this his best book to date.” —Kirkus Reviews “Dugoni has a gift for creating compelling characters and mysteries that seem straightforward, but his stories, like an onion, have many hidden layers. He also is able to capture the spirit and atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest, making the environment come alive.…another winner from Dugoni.” —Associated Press “All of Robert Dugoni's talents are once again firmly on display in The Trapped Girl, a blisteringly effective crime thriller…structured along classical lines drawn years ago by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. A fiendishly clever tale that colors its pages with crisp shades of postmodern noir.” —Providence Journal “Robert Dugoni, yet again, delivers an excellent read.…With many twists, turns, and jumps in the road traveled by the detective and her cohorts, this absolutely superb plot becomes more than just a little entertaining. The problem remains the same: Readers must now once again wait impatiently for the next book by Robert Dugoni to arrive.” —Suspense Magazine “The Trapped Girl is a blistering mystery, and some of Robert Dugoni’s best work to date.” —The Real Book Spy “Dugoni weaves an intricate and absorbing story that’s as hot as the unseasonable Seattle weather his detective battles through.” —Authorlink Praise for The Tracy Crosswhite Series: “Combines the best of a police procedural with a legal thriller, and the end result is outstanding…Dugoni continues to deliver emotional and gut-wrenching, character-driven suspense stories that will resonate with any fan of the thriller genre.” —Library Journal, Starred Review “Dugoni does a masterful job... If you are not already reading his books, you should be!” —BookReporter “Dugoni does a superior job of positioning [the plot elements] for maximum impact...” —Publishers Weekly “Well written, and its classic premise is sure to absorb legal-thriller fans…The characters are richly detailed and true to life, and the ending is sure to please fans.” —Kirkus Reviews “A stunningly suspenseful exercise in terror that hits every note at the perfect pitch.” —Providence Journal “Dugoni has become one of the best crime novelists in the business, and his latest featuring Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite will only draw more accolades.” —Romantic Times, Top Pick Read more About the Author Robert Dugoni is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series, including In the Clearing, Her Final Breath, and My Sister’s Grave, which became an #1 bestseller, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, a finalist for the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, a finalist for the International Thriller Award, and winner of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for Fiction. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling David Sloane series, including The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm, Murder One, and The Conviction. Murder One was also a finalist for the Harper Lee Prize. In addition to the stand-alone novel Damage Control, Dugoni penned the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, which was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year selection. His books have been likened to Scott Turow and Nelson DeMille, and he has been hailed as “the undisputed king of the legal thriller” by the Providence Journal.Visit his website at www.robertdugoni.com and follow him on Twitter @robertdugoni and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorRobertDugoni. Read more
S**2
A Winner
I just finished reading Dugoni's ,The Trapped Girl. And I want to read it again! Good title, by the way, our protagonist is indeed trapped in a very bad marriage with an emotional wreck of husband who would gamble everything away, even her protected inheritance.Our detective, Tracy Crosswhite, is as committed as ever to finding the murderer of the dead woman brought up in a crab pot in the Puget Sound. Tracy works with a good team of detectives who are on their way to uncovering the truth when their case gets taken away from them.Three bodies later, the clues lead in one direction while the solution lies in another. The ending promises to surprise you. In fact, I want to read it again to find out how I got there. The Trapped Girl is a great whodunnit. No doubt about it, you will enjoy this one.
C**S
Man I Love this Tracy Crosswhite Series and this Dugoni guy is great!
First, I would like to express my thanks to Thomas and Mercer Books, NetGalley and the author who provided a digital copy in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.Robert Dugoni is on a very hot roll currently. However, Dugoni is, also, IMHO at, or very near, the top of his game, too. I am currently reading the Tracy White police procedural/legal thriller series. The Trapped Girl is book four in this series, and the writing and the stories just seem to get better and better. I really enjoy this series, and this definitely was my favorite in the series. I have not read book three, yet. We can only hope that he is not having his “Dylanesque” peak anytime soon. Let the songs keep coming.Kurt Schill, a Seattle teenager, is out trying to make a few extra bucks illegally in the wee hours by poaching crabs. He goes out into the fog and darkness and drops his crab pots, and then returns to get them, hopefully full. This all works fine and dandy until one night he has the one-in-a-million misfortune to pull out a very heavy pot, and it don’t look like any crabs are in this pot. Schill resigns himself to calling in the found body even though he is breaking the law. Tracy Crosswhite, Seattle major crimes unit, is the quick to respond. The first order of business will be to identify the victim which turns out to be extremely difficult and very time-consuming, along with a couple of other things that are better left unsaid if one has not read the book yet.The usual cast of quirky detectives are present: Del Castigliano, Vic “Fazz” Fazzio, Kinnsington “Kins” Rowe, and Tracy in the pit, or the crew. Del and Fazz cover the bases of the paper trails and background work with people. Kins and Tracy chase down and speak with suspects, persons of interest, and people familiar with these people. And, they, especially Tracy, report directly to Captain Johnny Nolasco, and their working relationship lacks a lot to be desired. Dugoni seems to maximize the amount of interest that the reader can garner without going too far, a not so easy accomplishment IMHO.Graham and Andrea Strickland are a couple with a troubled marriage. Graham leases a Porsche and is a lawyer. He wants the best of everything with sugar on top, but he really does not want to have to work for it. That’s so, so yesterday. He is better at spending money that making money, he is greedy, lazy, unfaithful, and dishonest. Other than that, I guess that he is okay. His wife is Andrea. She is a very quiet, demur and a predictable creature of habit. She has a job helping a friend, but she is not a very sociable person. She has stack upon stack of books, and she devours books quickly. She only wants to read and hike. Anyway, somehow they are involved in the crab pot case.Once again, Robert Dugoni’s writing is off the charts crazy. Police procedurals are not supposed to be like this? Legal thrillers are seldom this exciting. Dugoni’s creativity and original ideas and his ability to advance them with story and plot and characters is definitely something to keep in the back of your mind while reading The Trapped Girl, or any other book in the Tracy Crosswhite series. Dugoni is quickly becoming one of my favorite go-to authors. The Trapped Girl tops this list. I would have no problem recommending this book to anyone, regardless of what they read. This is a 5-star.
L**O
My favorite of the Tracy Crosswhite series so far!
I won a copy of The Trapped Girl in a Goodreads Giveaway. I thought I should start reading the Tracy Crosswhite series from the beginning in order to give it my best review.The Trapped Girl is book four in a series, but reading them in order is not necessary to follow the plots and understand the story lines. Personally, I'm glad I did read them in order though, because I think I got to know the main characters better and by book four, it was like reading about friends.Without giving too much away, I liked how The Trapped Girl went from third person to first person giving the reader another view of the story which added more suspense.It seems that Detective Tracy Crosswhite and the rest of the A team can't catch a break. They go from one difficult case to another, and when a lady's body is accidentally found stuffed in a crab pot under the water, things definitely go from bad to worse. Once some evidence is discovered, Tracy and her team think they've identified the victim. But, as they proceed with the case, one discovery leads to the next, and soon they have more questions than answers. This turns out to be more than a simple murder (if there is such a thing). Greed, betrayal, and violence...it's all here, just waiting to be uncovered and the trapped girl is the key!
V**I
A girl trapped in every sense of the word
A girl trapped in every sense of the word. A body is found in a crab pot in Puget Sound, a female with a bullet hole in the head. The detective, Tracy Crosswhite, has to try to identify this woman in order to figure out who murdered her but it seems like the victim was trying to hid who she really was-- reconstructive surgery on her face, brand new birth certificate and driver's license, and no friends or family coming forward to claim her. A break comes in the case when a state park ranger calls, saying they may have found the body of a woman who disappeared while hiking Mount Rainier with her husband. The missing woman seems to have plenty of reasons to want to escape her life: a failing business started by her volatile, smooth talking lawyer husband who forged her name on bank guarantees on the business and was cheating on her. Her trust fund also mysteriously disappeared when she did. This case with the seemingly straight-forward clear motive has so many twists and turns that Tracy start to question everything about this case and what the police think they know. This mystery keeps you guessing to the very end on the "who done it" and why. None of my guesses throughout the book were correct. I had only read the first book in this series last year and it in no way affected me understanding the plot or the characters by not reading the rest of the series before reading this book but now I want to read the other books.I gave this 4 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.I received a free advanced copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.
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