Burning Ridge by Margaret Mizushima

Burning Ridge by Margaret Mizushima ISBN-13: 9781683317784 Hardcover Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Released: Sept. 11, 2018

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
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?

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.


My Review:
Burning Ridge is a K9-detective mystery. It's the fourth in a series. You can follow this book without reading the previous ones, and this book didn't spoil the previous mysteries.

The main characters were likable and complex, and they acted realistically. I cared about what happened to them. They dealt with personal struggles while solving the crime. Mattie's painful childhood is connected to the current crime, pulling up painful memories. She needs Robo, her loyal and talented working dog, and Cole, the veterinarian who loves her, to get her through. The crime was a clue-based mystery but turned into a suspense when the murderer kidnapped another person...and he tortured his last target using fire. (This was suspenseful but not traumatizing to read.)

The crime scenes were not described in gory detail. There were no sex scenes. The was occasional use of bad language. Overall, I'd highly recommend this interesting and exciting novel.


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