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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Will There Be a Season 3 of 'Tracker'? Here's What's Next for Justin Hartley's Colter Shaw
Tracker's Colter Shaw has more missing people to find and more rewards to collect. Back in February 2025, CBS renewed the show for a third season — which isn't exactly surprising, considering Tracker is currently the top show on broadcast TV, averaging at 10.84 million viewers per episode, per Nielsen. "Thank you all for watching us. Because of the #trackerbackers we get to make more of these @trackercbs episodes. Here we go!!" Hartley wrote on Instagram when season 3 was announced. The series, based on Jeffery Deaver's novel The Never Game, follows lone-wolf survivalist Shaw (Justin Hartley), who helps law enforcement find people in exchange for a finder's fee. The season 2 finale — which aired on May 11 — saw Shaw reunite with his mother (Wendy Crewson) when he headed home to Echo Ridge to investigate the case of a missing diner owner. From returning cast members to potential plot details, here's everything to know about Tracker season 3. Yes, Tracker will return for a third season. CBS announced the show's renewal in February 2025 — and Hartley had the honor of delivering the news to the show's cast and crew. "Because of all the hard work you've done on season 2, they have picked us up for season 3," he said in a video posted on Instagram. "I just want to say thank you for all your hard work and dedication." CBS hasn't released any specific plot details about Tracker season 3. However, during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in April 2025, Hartley did share an idea he and producers have been "kicking around" for a while. "It would be interesting, I think, to see him be set up. In other words, to see him using all those skills to run from the authorities," he said. "I'd love to have all that tie into the family background, the government." Hartley continued, "We have the underlying theme of what we're going to do next year, while not really changing the direction of where our story is going." Hartley will reprise his role as Colter Shaw in Tracker season 3. CBS hasn't confirmed any other returning cast members. In season 2, Hartley was joined by series regulars Fiona Rene as Reenie Greene, Abby McEnany as Velma Bruin and Eric Graise as Bobby Exley. CBS hasn't announced a premiere date for Tracker season 3, but the network confirmed it will be back for the 2025-26 season, airing in its regular slot of Sunday nights at 8 p.m. ET., per Variety. Hartley believes season 3 will consist of 18–22 episodes, per the video on his Instagram. All episodes of Tracker seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Paramount+. Read the original article on People
New York Times
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
New Crime Novels With Unexpected Twists
South of Nowhere Colter Shaw is a professional 'rewards seeker,' a skilled tracker who specializes in finding missing people — usually for the reward money, though sometimes out of the goodness of his heart. It's a simple enough vocation and yet, as the suspense veteran Deaver has demonstrated in four prior Shaw novels (and the TV adaptation 'Tracker'), the ways in which Shaw finds peril — or peril finds him — keep multiplying. In SOUTH OF NOWHERE (Putnam, 403 pp., $30), his sister Dorion implores him to help to locate potential survivors after a levee collapses in a small Northern California town. From here, Deaver is off to the proverbial races. Does every chapter have a twist? Pretty much. Is Colter just likable enough to brush off needless conflict and still find time for romance? Definitely. Is the writing a little too reminiscent of detailed outlines like the ones Deaver is known to fashion before writing a first draft? You bet. Could I put the book down? Not a chance. The Colter Shaw series prioritizes action and the constant possibility of calamity, leaving only the barest amount of room for character development, like Colter's continued grappling with the effects of his survivalist upbringing. The books don't measure up to the best of Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme novels, but they all accomplish their mission: thrilling engagement. Detective Aunty Kausar Khan, introduced in DETECTIVE AUNTY (Harper Perennial, 326 pp., paperback, $17.99), has spent the past 20 years relishing the stability of placid North Bay, where she and her husband moved after fleeing busy, bustling Toronto in the wake of a family tragedy. But then her husband dies shortly after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and her daughter, Sana, calls with upsetting news: 'I'm in trouble. There's been a murder, and I'm the prime suspect.' It seems Sana's landlord has been found inside her clothing store with a dagger in his chest. Kausar returns to Toronto's Golden Crescent neighborhood as both a concerned mother and a tenacious amateur sleuth. The case against Sana is strong, but as Kausar discovers, the murder victim had many enemies. If only the ghosts of Kausar's past would stop haunting her present-day investigation! Jalaluddin, who has crossed into crime fiction from the romantic comedy genre, doesn't skimp on plotting — the whodunit twist caught me pleasingly flat-footed — but shines most with character and community, showing the complexities of mother-daughter relationships and the variability of longtime friendships. 'Detective Aunty' is the first in a new series and I certainly welcome more installments. Night in the City Reading Michael McGarrity's noir novel NIGHT IN THE CITY (Norton, 263 pp., $28.99), about the midcentury death of a Manhattan socialite named Laura Neilson, I found it difficult to avoid thinking about Vera Caspary's 1943 classic suspense novel 'Laura' (and the equally classic film adaptation featuring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews). While I wished for more structural innovation along the lines of what Caspary accomplished, I did enjoy McGarrity's more conventional narrative here: A man finds his ex-lover murdered and must clear his name, rooting out widespread corruption as the atmosphere thickens. The man is the assistant district attorney Sam Monroe, who dated Laura for a time and never really got over the way she broke up with him by bringing a new flame to the local bar that was 'their private haunt and rendezvous.' So when she summons him to her Manhattan penthouse, off Sam goes, waved in by an expectant doorman — only to find her body, his Army dog tags wrapped around her neck. One thing is clear: He's been set up. With the help of an intrepid private eye and his former lover's diary, Sam sets out to find her killer. McGarrity paints a seedy portrait of a bygone New York that pulses with life, lust and larceny. Big Bad Wool Finally, it gives me great pleasure that Swann's exceedingly delightful Sheep Detective books are once again available for American audiences. 'Three Bags Full,' first published in 2005 and reissued in February, introduced an intrepid flock on the case of who had killed their beloved shepherd. In BIG BAD WOOL (Soho Crime, 384 pp., $28.95), the sheep — including Zora, 'a Blackface sheep with a weakness for the abyss,' Ramesses, a 'nervous young ram full of good ideas,' and Miss Maple, 'the cleverest sheep in the flock and maybe even the world' — return with a new minder, Rebecca. They're wintering next to a French château, which sounds idyllic, but the disappearance of other sheep, the mounting deaths of deer and, eventually, a human, strike fear in the hearts of the flock, who are worried they or their shepherd may be next. Is it a werewolf, the shape-shifting creature called Garou, as the local goats seem to believe? Or a more prosaic yet sinister culprit? How the sheep discover the truth will enchant readers who pay close attention.
