Standing dead

"Deputy Mattie Cobb and her sister, Julia, travel to Mexico to visit their mother, but when they arrive, they discover that she and her husband have vanished without a trace. Back in Timber Creek, Mattie finds a chilling note on her front door telling her to look for 'him' among the standing dead up...

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Main Author: Mizushima, Margaret (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crooked Lane Books, 2024.
Series:Mizushima, Margaret. Timber Creek K-9 mysteries ; 8.
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Summary:"Deputy Mattie Cobb and her sister, Julia, travel to Mexico to visit their mother, but when they arrive, they discover that she and her husband have vanished without a trace. Back in Timber Creek, Mattie finds a chilling note on her front door telling her to look for 'him' among the standing dead up in the high country. The sheriff's department springs into action and sends a team to the mountains, where Mattie s K-9 partner, Robo, makes a grisly discovery a body tied to a dead pine tree. Mattie is shocked when she realizes she knows the dead man. And then another note arrives, warning that Mattie's mother is in desperate straits. In a last-ditch gambit, Mattie must go deep undercover into a killer's lair to save her mother -- or die trying"--
Item Description:Includes excerpt from "Gathering mist" by Margaret Mizushima.
Physical Description:308 pages 22 cm.
ISBN:1639106421
9781639106424
9781639102440
1639102442
Author Notes:Margaret Mizushima is an American author. She was born in Kansas, and was raised on cattle ranches in Texas and Colorado. She is a graduate of Colorado State University with a degree in Speech Pathology. After college, she worked as a speech pathologist in a hospital, and later started her own rehabilitation agency. Eventually she sold her business, and began to study fiction writing. With her interest in crime fiction and crime documentaries, she focused her efforts on mystery writing. She writes the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery series, which includes Killing Trail, Stalking Ground, and Hunting Hour. She also wrote the short story, Hay Hook. It was published in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2014 anthology.

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