'A taut page-turner on multiple levels' Booklist
An effortlessly engrossing read filled with tension, excitement and heart, Stalking Ground, the second in Margaret Mizushima's lauded debut series, will send a chill down every reader's spine.
Deputy Ken Brody's girlfriend goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, and Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called to search. But it's mid-October and a dark snowstorm is brewing over the high country. And they're already too late. By the time they find her body, the storm has broken and the snow is coming down hard.
While Brody hikes down to bring back the forensics team and veterinarian Cole Walker gathers supplies to protect them from the storm, Mattie and Robo find themselves alone, guarding the gravesite overnight in the dead of the early winter. And that's only the first long, dark night in a series of them, because as their investigation develops, Mattie, Robo, Brody, and Cole find themselves in the middle of the killer's stalking ground - where the hunters have just become the hunted.

Margaret Mizushima is the author of the Timber Creek K-9 mystery series which includes Killing Trail (Crooked Lane, 2015), nominee for an RT Reviewer's Choice Award; Stalking Ground (Crooked Lane, 2016), finalist in the 2017 Colorado Book Awards and International Book Awards, and Gold Medal winner in the Reader's Favorites Awards; and Hunting Hour (Crooked Lane, 2017), nominee for an RT Reviewer's Choice Award. 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.