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Tracy Crosswhite Books in Order

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See the Tracy Crosswhite books in order by Robert Dugoni, with quick summaries, series background, and simple help on the best place to start.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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23 books

1

My Sister's Grave

by Robert Dugoni

2014

When Sarah Crosswhite's remains are finally found, Seattle detective Tracy Crosswhite returns to the case that shaped her life. The search for the real killer forces her back into old secrets and immediate danger.

2

My Sister's Grave

by Robert Dugoni

2014

3

The Academy

by Robert Dugoni

2014

Before she was a homicide detective, Tracy Crosswhite was a teacher entering the Seattle Police Academy with one goal, finding justice for her sister. This prequel shows the grit, bias, and pressure that shape her early path.

4

Her Final Breath

by Robert Dugoni

2015

A serial killer called the Cowboy is hunting young women in North Seattle, and Tracy Crosswhite may have been marked as part of the game. To stop him, she has to reopen an old investigation others want left alone.

5

Her Final Breath

by Robert Dugoni

2015

6

Third Watch

by Robert Dugoni

2015

Young patrol officer Tracy Crosswhite answers what seems like a routine domestic disturbance while a reporter shadows her for the night. The call turns into a hostage crisis and a sharp test of the nerve that will define her career.

7

In the Clearing

by Robert Dugoni

2016

Tracy helps an old academy friend revisit the decades-old death of a Native teenage girl once ruled a suicide. The cold case leads into a small town with long memories and carefully buried lies.

8

In the Clearing

by Robert Dugoni

2016

9

Close to Home

by Robert Dugoni

2017

The hit-and-run death of a young boy should have an answer, until the suspected driver is shielded by the military and key evidence disappears. Tracy's search for justice exposes a wider criminal operation tied to the base.

10

Close to Home

by Robert Dugoni

2017

11

The Trapped Girl

by Robert Dugoni

2017

A woman's body hauled up in a crab pot gives Tracy Crosswhite a victim with no clear identity and too many missing pieces. As the case unfolds, betrayal and greed drive it toward a dangerous finish.

12

The Trapped Girl

by Robert Dugoni

2017

13

A Steep Price

by Robert Dugoni

2018

A missing young woman who resisted her family's plans is found dead in an abandoned well, and Tracy takes the case. At the same time, trouble inside her unit puts careers, and lives, on shaky ground.

14

A Steep Price

by Robert Dugoni

2018

15

A Cold Trail

by Robert Dugoni

2020

Back in Cedar Grove with her husband and baby, Tracy hopes for a quiet stretch of time and gets anything but. A reporter's murder and an old local case pull her toward a conspiracy with roots in her hometown.

16

A Cold Trail

by Robert Dugoni

2020

17

In Her Tracks

by Robert Dugoni

2021

Reassigned to cold cases, Tracy investigates the long-ago abduction of a five-year-old girl while another woman vanishes in the present. Both cases hinge on family secrets, fractured marriages, and what people hide behind quiet doors.

18

In Her Tracks

by Robert Dugoni

2021

19

What She Found

by Robert Dugoni

2022

Tracy reopens the disappearance of reporter Lisa Childress, a case that has haunted the missing woman's family for decades. The answers lead into political corruption, police scandal, and a killer who may not be finished.

20

What She Found

by Robert Dugoni

2022

21

One Last Kill

by Robert Dugoni

2023

Tracy reopens the Route 99 serial killer case, a failure that has shadowed Seattle for decades. Working with her old adversary Johnny Nolasco, she finds corruption and cover-ups almost as dangerous as the killer.

22

A Dead Draw

by Robert Dugoni

2025

After a suspect with ties to her sister's killer gets free on a technicality, Tracy Crosswhite heads to Cedar Grove to regain her footing. What follows is a tense cat-and-mouse fight with revenge driving every move.

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One Split Second

by Robert Dugoni

2026

When Sheriff Jenny Almond is charged with murdering an unarmed veteran, Tracy Crosswhite digs into the shooting and an old disappearance tied to the same man. The case links split-second choices in the present to secrets buried for decades.

Series background & context

Tracy Crosswhite is a Seattle homicide detective, but the series starts before she has the badge, the desk, or the authority to chase the truth the way she wants. What drives her is older than her police career: the disappearance and murder of her younger sister, Sarah. That loss is the engine under the whole series. It explains why Tracy leaves teaching, why she enters the police academy, and why unsolved cases hit her differently than they hit almost anyone else around her.

That backstory gives the books their shape, but the series is not built on grief alone. These are police procedurals, and Dugoni clearly enjoys the day-to-day work of investigation. Tracy interviews witnesses, follows cold trails, revisits bad assumptions, and worries over details other people miss. She is methodical, analytical, and hard to rattle. Her science background and her marksmanship matter, but Dugoni never turns her into a superhero. She feels like a detective who wins by staying steady and thinking longer than everyone else.

Seattle matters here too. So do the mountains, the water, the wet streets, and the smaller Washington towns that sit on old grudges and buried secrets. Some books stay close to Tracy's work inside the city. Others pull her back toward Cedar Grove and the northern Cascades, where her family's history keeps colliding with her professional life. That mix gives the series a nice range. You get the pace of city homicide work, but you also get the unease of small-town cases where everybody remembers something and nobody tells the whole truth.

The past never stays quiet for long.

A big part of the appeal is the way Dugoni lets Tracy's world expand without losing what made it work in the first place. Her colleagues matter. Office politics matter. The strain of being a woman in a hard-edged department matters. Later books shift her into cold cases and deepen her home life, especially once Dan becomes part of the picture, but the focus stays on the work. Tracy is not interesting because chaos follows her around. She is interesting because she keeps showing up and doing the job even when the emotional cost is obvious.

The tone is serious but very readable. The mysteries move fast, yet Dugoni leaves room for loyalty, recovery, and the question that sits underneath almost every book: what does justice actually change? Sometimes Tracy gets answers. Sometimes the answers come late. Sometimes they come with collateral damage. That tension keeps the series from feeling tidy.

If you want the fullest version of Tracy, read in order and include the short prequels like The Academy and Third Watch. The cases can stand alone, but her personal arc is part of the reward. This is a series about solving crimes, yes, but it is also about what a determined person can and cannot repair once a family has been broken.

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