Burning Ridge: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima

Burning Ridge: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Genre: Contemporary, Suspense/Mystery
Length: Full length (279 pages)
Rating: 5 stars
Reviewed by Aloe

On a rugged Colorado mountain ridge, Mattie Cobb and her police dog partner Robo make a grisly discovery―and become the targets of a ruthless killer.

Colorado’s Redstone Ridge is a place of extraordinary beauty, but this rugged mountain wilderness harbors a horrifying secret. When a charred body is discovered in a shallow grave on the ridge, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called in to spearhead the investigation. But this is no ordinary crime―and it soon becomes clear that Mattie has a close personal connection to the dead man.

Joined by local veterinarian Cole Walker, the pair scours the mountaintop for evidence and makes another gruesome discovery: the skeletonized remains of two adults and a child. And then, the unthinkable happens. Could Mattie become the next victim in the murderer’s deadly game?
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A deranged killer torments Mattie with a litany of dark secrets that call into question her very identity. As a towering blaze races across the ridge, Cole and Robo search desperately for her―but time is running out in Margaret Mizushima’s fourth spine-tingling Timber Creek K-9 mystery, Burning Ridge.

Mattie is looking forward to seeing her brother again after so many years apart. They share bad memories and she’d rather not relive them but seeing him would be good. She never imagined he’d be dead when she saw him next.

When Cole and his girls go for a horseback ride in the high country, he’s horrified when his dog brings them a boot with a remainder of a foot in it. That sets off a search. Not only do they find that victim, they find three more in other graves.

One of them was her brother, which she discovers when investigating the crime. The others were adults and children. Why would someone kill her brother and who would kill children? Also, why would they have used this alpine meadow for a burial ground? The rangers and the cops have their work cut out for them.

Mattie can’t figure out why someone would want to murder her brother. She better figure it out quick because she’s the next on the list. And there are more surprises yet to come.

This author always writes suspenseful stories that grab your attention. It’s fun to read about her interaction with her dog. She’s beginning to develop a boyfriend in this book and she needs a friend. She was abused in the past and hasn’t gotten over the trauma yet. Mattie is a complex character and she never gives up on a case. She’s someone to admire despite the baggage she carries.

This was a really good mystery.