Tracking Game
(Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #5). By Margaret Mizushima. 2019. Crooked
Lane Books (ARC eBook).
When deputy Mattie Cobb and her beau, veterarian Cole Walker, seek
out the source of what sounded like an explosion interrupting the
rural town of Timber Creek’s Saturday night festivities, they come
upon a burning van and a man shot dead. As the investigation begins,
several leads quickly develop, only to be interrupted by a distressed
911 call that sends Mattie and her K-9 partner, Robo, out into the
Colorado mountains. The search ends with the discovery of a second
murder victim and the threat of a large predator on the prowl. The
double homicide points to the Redman cattle ranch, but ferreting out
who the cold-blooded murderer is unfolds into a story with a nice mix
of mystery, action, setting and character.
When deputy Mattie Cobb and her beau, veterarian Cole Walker, seek
out the source of what sounded like an explosion interrupting the
rural town of Timber Creek’s Saturday night festivities, they come
upon a burning van and a man shot dead. As the investigation begins,
several leads quickly develop, only to be interrupted by a distressed
911 call that sends Mattie and her K-9 partner, Robo, out into the
Colorado mountains. The search ends with the discovery of a second
murder victim and the threat of a large predator on the prowl. The
double homicide points to the Redman cattle ranch, but ferreting out
who the cold-blooded murderer is unfolds into a story with a nice mix
of mystery, action, setting and character.
This is my first book by this author but Tracking Game reads
as a standalone. There are a lot of interesting details provided in
how a law officer works with a K-9 partner; so readers who like
animals involved in their mysteries will definitely enjoy this
procedural. While it felt to me like Tracking Game
opened stronger than it closed, the pace and plot are, overall, done well and I would be interested in future installments in this
series, and for sure, reading
the first
book for the origin story of how exactly Mattie and Robo come
to be partners.
