One Split Second - (Tracy Crosswhite) by Robert Dugoni (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series.

A girl's unsolved disappearance. A tragic shooting. Two crimes, forty-five years apart, with a blood-chilling connection in a gripping new Tracy Crosswhite novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.

Detective Tracy Crosswhite is assigned to defend an old friend. Sheriff Jenny Almond has been charged with first-degree murder for shooting an unarmed veteran on a stormy night of confusion, paranoia, and split-second choices. Tracy is certain there's more to the story of Anthony Alvarez's killing--and her investigation draws her back to a cold case that still haunts the community.

More than forty years ago, Alvarez was the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of a teenage babysitter. The lead investigator, Jenny's late father Buzz Almond, always believed Alvarez had been framed. Decades later, his suspicions of a conspiracy are driving Tracy to find answers. Digging deeper into both the past and the present, she discovers a complex web of sinister motives and long-buried secrets, unearthing them one by one.

As a decades-old mystery casts its dark shadow on a small town, only the truth will finally set the innocent free.

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Review Quotes

Praise for One Split Second

"Dugoni masterfully illustrates how a single moment can irrevocably alter the course of lives, weaving together past and present with the kind of propulsive, assured storytelling that has made his Tracy Crosswhite series a standout in modern crime fiction." --Jeff Ayers, firstCLUE

Praise for the Tracy Crosswhite Series and Robert Dugoni

"A gifted, original storyteller and a master of the suspense thriller mystery genre." --Midwest Book Review

"Dugoni brilliantly folds murders past and present into his heroine's earlier cases and her troubled history." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Dugoni is a superb storyteller..." --The Boston Globe

"Dugoni is every bit the equal of Lisa Gardner and Harlan Coben when it comes to psychological suspense." --Providence Journal

"As usual, Dugoni unfolds the complications in a steady stream in and out of the courtroom, and the denouement...is highly satisfying"--Kirkus Reviews

"Tracy Crosswhite is one of the best protagonists in the realm of crime fiction today." --Associated Press

"Crosswhite is a sympathetic, well-drawn protagonist, and her next adventure can't come fast enough." --Library Journal (starred review)

"[Dugoni is the] master of Seattle menace." --The Big Thrill

"Dugoni breathes life into the police procedural like never before. Put the Tracy Crosswhite series...on your 'must read' list!" --Suspense Magazine