Mattie is an intelligent and skilled main character, but with flaws and past demons to work through just like everyone else. Turns out, it's a lot more complicated and dangerous than a missing person's case.

When a fellow deputy's girlfriend disappears, Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner, Robo, are on the case. I'm starting the next in the series, Hunting Hour right now! here I am at the base of the Snowy Mountain Range, the stream gurgling in my ears, shimmering in the late summer sun and aspen leaves dancing in the crisp breeze. The setting is a small town close to Denver Colorado which is smack dab in between my home in New Mexico and my family's cabin in Centennial, Wyoming and Margaret Mizushima paints the scenery perfectly! A strong 4.5★'s!Īfter reading the first book back in March of this year, I saved the next three until now so I could read them back to back while at our family cabin in Wyoming. As the clues to the crime emerge the danger and apprehension raised my heart rate higher and higher with each step Mattie and Robo come to catching the killer! While this book wasn't quite as good as the first as I had an inkling about who the killer was early on, it didn't distract me from enjoying the tension and excitement of the story from beginning to end. The storyline is engaging and realistic, with a fast pace that had me unwilling to put it down until the very end. The first book, Killing Trail, was a thrilling beginning to what has proved to be an exciting new series for me and this one was no exception. Stalking Ground by Margaret Mizushima is the second book in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery series. His two-day search for the missing woman had come to an end. She could read Robo's distress in the tightness around his eyes. She felt her chest tighten, unable to catch her breath. He pinned his ears as he approached-hunkered and slinked up, poking his nose into a crack in the mound.

Robo darted toward a large pile of rocks. He shifted, stood at attention, and looked down into a draw off to the west. When Mattie drew up beside him, he turned to look into her eyes. He paused with his ears pricked forward, nose up, sniffing the wind. As they neared the spot where they would leave the trail, she wanted him to remember the reason they'd come up here was to look for Adrienne.Īs they breached another steep rise, Robo came to a sudden halt.

The second in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery series! Another exciting crime thriller, fraught with tension and danger! I love this series!Īlthough she doubted Robo needed it, she took the scent article from her utility belt to refresh his memory.

Killing trail by margaret mizushima