My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni

Hi everyone!

I took a brief hiatus to spend a two week "staycation" with my hubs and son.  We were supposed to have gone to DisneyLand, Universal Hollywood, and San Francisco.  Obvi, Covid has other plans.  Instead we stayed within CT doing mostly outdoor activities like hiking, horseback riding, Mystic, and swimming.  I am hopeful our back to back weekends in New Hampshire later this summer will go on as planned.

This detective novel is my book club's July selection.  I am new to this group--a definite hodgepodge of teachers, other school staff, and Westie community members.  I am looking forward to meeting, whether virtual or in person, to discuss books!

I am not sure who chose this one, but I loved it.  I later learned from Carrigan's Mrs. Tirollo it is the first in a series, and if I didn't have a 20-something deep pile to read already this summer, I'd be adding it to my Amazon cart! (An aside, speaking of Amazon's cart, a copy of Leigh-Ann Hauer's newly illustrated children's book will be headng to each of our elementary schools!)

Tracy is a detective in the Seattle area.  She had been a chemistry teacher at the high school, in a very tiny town hours away, that she graduated from prior.  She and her younger sister were competitive shooters.  In 1993, her younger sister Sarah drove their truck home alone, through a storm.  Sarah knew Tracy' boyfriend was to propose, and sent them off to dinner.  Sarah would never make it home.  The truck would be found out of gas, although Tracy had filled it the day before, along with Sarah's personal belongings.  Seven weeks later, a recently released convicted rapist is convicted of Sarah's murder, although her body was never found.  

Tracy believes an innocent man has been framed, and leaves teaching to become a police officer as a means to continue searching the evidence for her sister's killer.  

20 years later, Sarah's body is found, in an area Tracy's family and army of volunteers had already searched.  Old wounds are opened, and a tiny town is going to have to face the possibility a man was wrongfully convicted, and that Sarah's killer still walks free.

I don't want to spoil too much, as this IS a mystery.  I really had my "whodunnit" guess wrong here though.

I will be adding this to our collection when/if we return to school!

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