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Hunting Hour

Hunting Hour

Hunting Hour by Margaret Mizushima Are you an incurable devotee of K-9 mysteries? Have you already devoured (and loved) Suspect and The Promise by Robert Crais and Blood on the Tracks by Barbara Nickless? Then you can do no better than to add Hunting Hour to your reading list. Hunting Hour features the lovable, and doggedly persistent Robo, a German Shepherd officer. You will love him as much as you love Maggie and Clyde–those larger-than-life dogs that leap off the…

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Author Spotlight with Margaret Mizushima

Author Spotlight with Margaret Mizushima

Please join me in welcoming Margaret Mizushima! I’m excited to spotlight Margaret Mizushima, the author of the Timber Creek mysteries featuring Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo. Together they keep the peace in Timber Creek, Colorado. Today we’re discussing the upcoming novel Hunting Hour to be released August 8th. Welcome, Margaret! Thank you, Deb. I’m happy to be here! I appreciate you hosting me and highlighting Hunting Hour. DA: You’ve clearly spent a lot of time around dogs….

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Working Dogs: Canines in Fiction

Working Dogs: Canines in Fiction

Today I am guest blogging “Working Dogs: Canines in Fiction” over at The Writer’s Drawer where Beryl Belsky generously promotes writers. Mouse yourself on over and discover essays, short stories, book reviews, and poetry by a myriad of authors as well as pieces by Beryl. I hope to see you there!

Book Review: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Book Review: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski Publisher: Harper Collins, 562 pages Format: Hardcover Source: Purchased What it’s about: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle begins, unexpectedly, in 1952 Busan with a secret night meeting between a US serviceman and a Korean herbalist. The service man offers penicillin in exchange for poison. The herbalist says, “I think here we trade one life for one life” (5).     The prologue ends without naming the serviceman, and chapter one begins with…

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