Gathering Mist

A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, Book 9

De: Margaret Mizushima

Narrado por: Nancy Wu

Secrets hide within the fog deep in the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest, in this ninth thrilling installment in award-winning author Margaret Mizushima’s Timber Creek K-9 Mystery series.

Deputy Mattie Wray, formerly Mattie Cobb, is summoned to Washington’s Olympic peninsula for an urgent search and rescue mission to find a celebrity’s missing child. With only a week left before her wedding, Mattie is hesitant to leave Timber Creek, but her K-9 partner Robo’s tracking skills are needed.

Dense forest, chilling rain, and unfriendly locals hamper their efforts, and soon Mattie suspects something more sinister than a lost child is at play. When one of the SAR dogs becomes ill, her fiancé Cole Walker suspects poison. Fearing for Mattie’s and Robo’s safety, Cole joins the search and rescue team as veterinary support.

Secrets that have lain hidden within the rugged terrain come to light and when it is uncovered that the missing child was kidnapped, the search becomes a full-blown crime scene investigation, forcing Mattie, Robo, and Cole into a desperate search to find the missing child before it's too late.

©2024 Margaret Mizushima (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

Love the relationships and of course Robo

Clean engaging continued saga of Maddie and friends family and canine plus law enforcement looking forward to the next book

Three Thumbs Up! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Loved the PNW setting of this story. Good story premise and the character development is a good balance of conflict, compassion, and chaotic. The narrative started off slow, but ended at a good pace.

Gathering Mist

Review addresses series. All books are 9-10 hours of listening in audiobook format. More sequels to come.

Plot. The Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series are police procedurals in a small town. The lead characters are Mattie Cobb and her partner, Robo, a 100lb German Shephard Dog - a search and rescure team. The overall stories stand-alone - murder the basis for good guys, bad guys and Mattie's small circle of devoted friends, mostly co-workers, and, of course, Robo. However, there is a sub-plot that traverses the entire series - Mattie's personal life. This includes a disturbing childhood incident, her current, fragile psyche, and a mutual attraction between her and a recently divorced veterinarian, Cole Walker, and his two girls. Each story comes to a satisfactory conclusion - but, start with book one to get full advantage of a budding romance. No spoilers .. but.

Not so hot. Early in the series Mattie's a little too fragile for the role, IMO - maybe that's just me. But, I don't think I'd be willing to put a gun in the hand of someone so .... personally breakable - not frail physically, but she always seems on the verge of tears - nightmares included. That and her continued rejection of Cole isn't real - he's handsome, unattached, financially secure, and is over-the-moon crazy about her. Eventually Mattie gives the reader a break - but you'll read several books before she does.

Narration is okay, but problematic in places. The entire series is narrated by Nancy Wu - and at times she's a bit too breathy and whispering. A bit slow, so pumped the iPhone audio up to 1.4. No other issues with audio production,

Liked. Robo, of course! A gorgeous, devoted dog, beautiful in disposition, brains, and strength. A perfect representation of this magnificent breed. Robo will take pleasure playing with kids or a ball, protect Mattie with his life, and quickly bring a grown man to tears of terror. Great dog. The stories are interesting and realistic tales of small-town policing.

The Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries are not great literature and they're not intended to be; just curl up on the sofa and enjoy. Try not to glare at your own dumb dog. 🤪

GATHERING MIST

This is another good book about Mattie and her dog Robo. In this book Mattie goes to help find a kid that they think at first is lost. Then learn that everything is not as it seems. Her and Cole is planning there wedding. Cole goes to help Mattie when he relizes how dangerous it is. I have liked all the books in this series. It is best to listen to these in order. I like the detective work that's involved. Nancy Wu does a great job narrating this book. If my review is any help will you please click on the helpful link below. Thank you.

Mattie and Robo

This series is never disappointing. What should be a relatively simple SAR search twists and turns down several avenues all of which keep one guessing. But, of course, all come full circle to be solved to everyone's satisfaction.
And then...the long awaited union of Mattie and Cole.