Dying Cry

Newlyweds Mattie and Cole Walker are out in a remote Colorado canyon, teaching Cole's daughters to snowshoe, when a scream cuts through the cold air. Someone nearby is hurt, or worse. Cole takes the girls to safety while Mattie and her K-9 partner, Robo, head deeper into the canyon to find the source. From a distance, they spot a shadowy figure at the foot of a cliff. Before they can reach the person, a rockslide buries them under stone and shale. Mattie and Robo dig frantically in case there is still a chance of life, but it is too late. The victim is dead. Up on the canyon rim, Mattie finds signs that the fall was no accident, and the news gets harder still: the dead person was a friend of Cole's. The Timber Creek County investigative team takes up the case and follows a trail of greed through the snowy high country. It leads toward a killer who now threatens the family Mattie has only just begun to build, and it puts her to the most demanding test she has yet faced in her work as a K-9 handler. Dying Cry is the tenth book in Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mystery series and won the IBPA Gold Award for fiction in the mystery and thriller category.