MYSTERY

Gathering Mist

Crooked Lane. (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, Bk. 9). Oct. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781639108947. $29.99. M
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Just days before her wedding to veterinarian Cole Walker, police Deputy Mattie Wray must fly to Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where a celebrity’s nine-year-old son has disappeared from a film set; the skills of Mattie’s search-and-rescue dog Robo are needed to comb through the region’s rainy forests, trails, and creeks. While working, the search teams learn that other boys have disappeared from the area in the last few years. Then one of the dogs and several searchers are poisoned by arsenic-tainted water. Fearing for Mattie and Robo, Cole flies in to act as veterinarian for all the dogs. When they realize that the missing boy was probably kidnapped and didn’t just wander off, their search becomes more desperate. Mattie fears that it will be the cadaver dogs that discover the boy, rather than Robo and the other air-scent dogs.
VERDICT The sequel to Standing Dead sends Mattie and Robo to a difficult search environment. The story of the search, and the setting, are beautifully developed in a mystery that builds in intensity and suspense. Readers who enjoy Sara Driscoll’s “FBI K-9” books will appreciate the emphasis on search-and-rescue dogs in Mizushima’s series.
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