Welcome to my website. I'm D. L. Keur (Dawn), author of The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries
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For Those Wondering ...Yes, More Books are Coming!
This is my promise to you, my readers: No dogs die.
This is my guarantee: I use no ghostwriters. Likewise, I use no AI, not in plotting my books, not in writing my books, not in editing my books, and not in creating artwork for the covers or the covers themselves.
Books by D. L. Keur
Reading the books of a series in order is recommended.
Death Scent
Her first mistake was calling 9-1-1.
Drones were supposed to make life easier for Jessie and her search and rescue dogs. Instead, they've made everything a lot more complicated. Her equipment confiscated, her very freedom threatened, Jessica Anderson finds herself in the crosshairs of both law enforcement and a vicious killer when her drones discover a body on the slopes of Long Peak.
When evidence points to other victims, though, it's Jessie and her search dogs who law enforcement need to find their remains. What nobody suspects, though, is that the killer is watching, waiting, anticipating ...ready.
A novel of a woman and her beloved dogs, a woman who, having fled a career in law enforcement, finds herself the target of, both, the sheriff and a murderer.
Clean, safe reading
No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And--spoiler alert--yes, dear reader, no dog dies in this book.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
Stray Trouble
Predator or prey? Jessie must decide.
Called out on a night search for two missing teens, Jessie and her pack of search dogs again team up with Bitterroot County Sheriff Landon Reid on a dangerous case involving multiple missing persons, felonious assault, and, ultimately, murder.
When Reid takes a bullet following a lead from Jessie’s snooping drones, his second-in-command authorizes a manhunt to run the fugitives to ground. Despite the risk, and against her better judgment, Jessie sets her dogs to tracking down the criminals, only to find that she and the deputies with her are in lethal danger from silent killers.
The story of a woman and her beloved dogs who step into the line of fire to save the lives of others.
Clean, safe reading
No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And--spoiler alert--yes, dear reader, no dog dies in this book.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
Grim Track
Dead or alive? Only her dogs know.
When an Alzheimer’s patient goes missing, no one thinks it’s more than a daughter’s careless mistake …except Jessica. When members of the patient’s family go missing, foul play becomes a certainty.
The Bitterroot County Sheriff’s Office and the whole search and rescue team kick it into high gear with the disappearance of Sheriff Reid and some of the last surviving family members.
The story of a woman and her beloved pack of search dogs who will stop at nothing to save the lives of both friend and stranger.
Clean, safe reading
No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And--spoiler alert--yes, dear reader, no dog dies in this book.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
Dire Traces
Her dogs keep finding them, but more keep disappearing.
A lost teen in Western Montana, four strayed hikers in Eastern Oregon, then more kids lost in Bitterroot County tests the mettle of the newly formed multi-county SAR group and stretches the endurance of Jessica Anderson and her dogs to the breaking point. When camera crews catch a rescue on film, Jessie and her dogs are put in dire jeopardy, and Sheriff Landon Reid and his deputies can't get there fast enough to save her.
The story of a woman and her pack of search dogs who risk it all to save the life of an innocent.
Clean, safe reading
No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And--spoiler alert--yes, dear reader, absolutely no dog dies in this book, either.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
NOTE TO FANS: This is an ongoing series. It doesn't stop here.
Dead Falls
The living and the dead—her dogs keep finding them.
Rape, abduction, and multiple victims dead from unknown causes confound the Bitterroot County Sheriff’s Office until Jessie’s dogs uncover a connection to an even bigger case. Jessie and her pack are on task and tracking, but what they’re tracking could make Jessie the prime target for revenge.
The story of a woman and her beloved pack of search dogs who will stop at nothing to protect their own.
Clean, safe reading No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And–spoiler alert–yes, dear reader, absolutely no dog dies in this book, either.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
NOTE TO FANS: This is an ongoing series. It doesn’t stop here.
Troubled Pursuit
Jessie & her dogs step right into the crosshairs of the desperate.
Missing kids, a missing mom, and a headless cadaver confound the Office of the Sheriff and lead Jessie and her dogs deep into the wilderness in search of someone determined not to be found. But the kids are there. So is the killer.
The story of a woman and her beloved dogs who keep on trying, though time is running out.
Clean, safe reading No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And–spoiler alert–yes, dear reader, absolutely no dog dies in this book, either.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
NOTE TO FANS: This is an ongoing series. It doesn’t stop here.
Game Trail
Jessie’s dogs are hot on track when unknown assailants hit the Bitterroot.
Three shots, two hunters near death from blunt force trauma delivered by an unknown attacker …or two …or more. Somebody is hunting hunters …with high-powered, customized paintball rifles. An anti-hunting campaign? That’s what it seems. And the assailants carry real guns, too.
When two Search and Rescue personnel out endurance training are also hit, that makes it personal for Jessie. Yet another attack leaves multiple victims critically injured, and one dead—same MO. Now it’s murder.
Conspiracy, murder, and mayhem pit Jessie and her dogs, along with Sheriff Landon Reid and his deputies against attackers playing a dangerous endgame.
The story of a woman and her beloved dogs determined to save lives, no matter the odds.
Clean, safe reading No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And–spoiler alert–yes, dear reader, no dog dies in this book, either.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
NOTE TO FANS: This is an ongoing series. It doesn’t stop here.
Cold Scent
An angry mother, two missing persons, and it’s personal. Jessie and her dogs are on a cold trail.
It’s coming Christmas in the Bitterroots when cross country skiers turn up lost, and Jessie and her dogs are on a cold trail as acts of vengeance begin to mar the peace. Kidnapping, arson, and attempted murder pit Jessie Anderson and Sheriff Landon Reid against the elements and unknown assailants, the dogs their allies and support in fending off the acrimony of revenge.
The story of a woman and her beloved search and rescue dogs who, working together, save lives.
AUTHOR’S NOTE TO HER READERS: You’ve asked repeatedly, and I’ve listened. So, here, in this tale of Christmas, I share with you some of the secrets held so close by both families, the Andersons and the Reids. Not all things do I share, but things that I would normally have, over the course of the series, just dropped in passing, things I might have only alluded to, I have, for you, exposed—a bit of the backgrounds of the what and why both Jessie and Landon have their scars …along with their aspirations, determination, and strength.
Clean, safe reading No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And–spoiler alert–yes, dear reader, no dog dies in this book, either.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
NOTE TO FANS: This is an ongoing series. It doesn’t stop here.
Furtive Prey
Stolen top secret technology, and Jessie’s dogs are in desperate pursuit of the thieves who took it.
It’s March in the Bitterroots—still winter—and Jessie and Landon are on their way home from their honeymoon when an HSI special agent and U.S. Marshals jerk Landon out of the car and whisk him off in a helicopter. From there, a crisis of national security proportions pits Sheriff Landon Reid against the Department of Homeland Security, with the FBI’s regional director, Special-Agent-in-Charge Andy Newsome, stuck in the middle after a very advanced organoid intelligence—an experimental biocomputer using lab-grown human brain tissue infused with AI—is stolen from the DARPA lab out of Idaho Falls, Idaho …and its signal emanates from somewhere in Bitterroot County. They just can’t find it. But maybe Jessie’s dogs can.
The story of a woman and her beloved pack of search dogs who, when asked to, try to find the improbable against impossible odds.
Clean, safe reading No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And–spoiler alert–yes, dear reader, no dog dies in this book, either.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
NOTE TO FANS: This is an ongoing series. It doesn’t stop here.
Critical Traces (on Pre-Order)
A land use war puts Jessie, her dogs, and her SAR group in the middle of murder.
More details coming closer to publication date.
The story of a woman and her beloved SAR dogs who push their every limit to save the guilty and the innocent.
Clean, safe reading No sex, gore, or profanity.
(And–spoiler alert–yes, dear reader, no dog dies in this book, either.)
NO AI content, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur.
NOTE TO FANS: This is an ongoing series. It doesn’t stop here.
A NEW K-9 MYSTERY SERIES COMING SOON
Night Trouble, a King & Midnight K-9 Mystery (on Pre-Order)
Let me introduce you to… Mike ‘Midnight’ Murphy and his dog King. This series is K-9 police procedural/crime and set in Arizona! And, yes, it’s on pre-order opens in new tab or window already …because it’s almost done.
Mike “Midnight” Murphy has two goals in life—find his wife’s killers and let his retired bomb dog live out his days in peace. Wounded in war, terminated from Austin P.D., Mike returns home to Mogollon County, Arizona, and lands himself a job …with the local sheriff’s office. He’s back on the inside. He’s back on the hunt.
More details closer to the release date …which may be sooner than suggested on Amazon.
CLEAN, SAFE READING – No profanity, no gore, no sex, and NO DOGS DIE!
No AI, no ghostwriters, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur
MORE BOOKS & STORIES by D. L. Keur & her alter egos, E. J. Ruek, Aeros, and C. J. “Country” James. (available in eBook & print)
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