{"product_id":"hunting-hour-isbn-9781683312772","title":"Hunting Hour","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for “Best Mystery,” \u003ci\u003eRT\u003c\/i\u003e Reviewer’s Choice Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e “Top Pick”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinalist for “Best Mystery,” Colorado Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhen 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girl—before it’s too late.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Deputy Mattie Cobb is in a dark place and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and his family to work on issues from her past.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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mattie and Robo must rush to hunt down the kidnapper before they’re too late in \u003ci\u003eHunting Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, the heart-pounding third installment in Margaret Mizushima’s exhilarating Timber Creek K-9 mysteries.\u003cb\u003e2018 Silver Falchion Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003eTopShelf Indie Award Nominee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Suspenseful [and] meticulously detailed . . . [A] rewarding, small-town police procedural.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fans who miss Virginia Lanier’s ’Bloodhound’ series, and readers who relish strong female characters and procedurals with a strong sense of place will want to get better acquainted with Mattie and Robo.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“After exploring her heroine’s history in \u003ci\u003eStalking Ground\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), Mizushima presents a fresh mystery in which the heroine’s motivations may reveal even more about her background.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mizushima’s best mystery yet! . . . \u003ci\u003eHunting Hour \u003c\/i\u003eis suspenseful and engaging, keeping readers on edge the entire way through this third Timber Creek K-9 Mystery.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, Top Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A compelling story peopled with full-dimensional characters about whom you grow to care deeply.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDeadly Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Mizushima\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the Timber Creek K-9 mysteries, which includes \u003ci\u003eKilling Trail\u003c\/i\u003e (Crooked Lane Books, 2015) nominated for an RT Reviewer’s Choice award for best first mystery, \u003ci\u003eStalking Ground\u003c\/i\u003e (Crooked Lane Books, 2016) a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards mystery category, and \u003ci\u003eHunting Hour\u003c\/i\u003e (Crooked Lane Books, 2017). She has a background in speech pathology and practiced in an acute care hospital before establishing her own rehabilitation agency. Currently, she balances writing with assisting her husband with their veterinary clinic and Angus cattle herd. She enjoys reading and hiking, and she lives on a small ranch in Colorado where she and her husband raised two daughters and a multitude of animals. She can be found on Facebook\/Author Margaret Mizushima, on Twitter @margmizu, and on her website at www.margaretmizushima.com.","brand":"Crooked Lane Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300661022949,"sku":"NP9781683312772","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781683312772.jpg?v=1767729545","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/hunting-hour-isbn-9781683312772","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}