Coming November 29, 2018!
From the winner of the
Dog Writer’s Association of America “Best Fiction Book of the Year 2017”award comes
this thrilling new installment in the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery series.
The annual Hansonville, North Carolina Founder’s Day
Festival always draws plenty of locals and tourists alike who are eager to
immerse themselves in the Smoky Mountain culture and show their support for
local businesses and civic organizations.
For dog trainer and Humane Society volunteer Raine Stockton, it’s a
perfect opportunity to raise money for the local animal shelter. But when a stranger wanders into her
fund-raising booth with his young daughter and their beautiful black Lab, the
peaceful country afternoon is turned into chaos. Within
moments the man is arrested for murder, his child is placed in foster
care, and Raine finds herself the temporary custodian of what may well be the
most valuable dog in the world.
While Raine’s
ex-husband, the newly appointed county investigator Buck Lawson, tries to sort
out the tangled threads of a murder case that isn’t even his own, Raine
discovers that the man they’ve taken into custody is the world-famous research scientist
Dr. Jason Broderick and that the Labrador, Bongo, is one of an elite group of
dogs Broderick has bred and trained to detect concealed micro-technology. Raine can’t believe that someone she so
admires could be guilty of murder, particularly when she learns that one of his
associates is her own fiancé, Miles Young.
But is her faith in both men misplaced?
It turns out that Bongo has skills that go beyond even those
of his fellow scent-detecting canines—skills that are worth billions of dollars
to some people, and are worth killing for to others. When
the unthinkable happens and an innocent life is placed in jeopardy, Raine is
forced to make a terrible choice: one
that will shake her to her very core and cause her to question not only
herself, but everything she has ever believed.
This thirteenth installment of the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery series begins a story arc that will take the lives of Raine, Miles and Buck down paths they had never before imagined. Don't miss it!
