Finalist for "Best Mystery," RT Reviewer's Choice Award
An RT Book Reviews "Top Pick"
Finalist for "Best Mystery," Colorado Book Award
When the daughter of Mattie's on-again, off-again love interest
disappears, she and her K-9 partner race to find the missing
girl--before it's too late.
Deputy Mattie Cobb is in a dark place and has withdrawn from Cole Walker
and his family to work on issues from her past. When she and her K-9
partner, Robo, get called to track a missing junior high student, they
find the girl dead on Smoker's Hill behind the high school, and Mattie
must head to the Walker home to break the bad news. But that's only the
start of trouble in Timber Creek, because soon another girl goes
missing--and this time it's one of Cole's daughters.
Knowing that each hour a child remains missing lessens the probability
of finding her alive, Mattie and Robo lead the hunt while Cole and
community volunteers join in to search everything--to no avail. It seems
that someone has snatched all trace of the Walker girl from their midst,
including her scent. Grasping at straws, Mattie and Robo follow a
phoned-in tip into the dense forest, where they hope to find a trace of
the girl and rescue her alive. But when Robo does catch her scent, it
leads them to information that challenges everything they thought they
knew about the case.
Mattie and Robo must rush to hunt down the kidnapper before they're too
late in Hunting Hour, the heart-pounding third installment in Margaret
Mizushima's exhilarating Timber Creek K-9 mysteries.
