Author: D. L. Keur
Why Clean? Why No Sex or Profanity?
People—mostly other authors—ask me: Why clean? Why no sex or profanity? Nobody much asks me why no gore.
So, here’s why in a nutshell: Because readers, especially me, are tired of dodging the cringe factor, which, as time goes on in entertainment (be it books, movies, music performances …you name it, and in our culture in general), now strives to reach a higher level of ‘shock impact’, each iteration trying to outdo the previous. It all becomes a race to the bottom.
Honestly, sex, gore, and profanity aren’t necessary for good, solid story.
I used to pride myself on realism. And, yes, especially with the workarounds needed to remove any and all profanity, that can push the credibility off a cliff, because, also honestly, most cops …most people curse …unless they come from a very strict upbringing and stick with it. However, as an author, creating story without it is doable. It just takes figuring out another way to deliver the same meaning or effect without losing impact.
There’s your nut taken out of its shell for the morning.
—Dawn
Murphy’s Law & Corollaries
It never fails. I have things all ordered, lined out, figured out, and …our internet goes down …for days. Right in the middle of a book launch, a promise to send free audio book codes to people who email, etc., etc., etc.. Okay. So I go to somebody else’s house or the library to do anything. …Okay. Except, oh, I can’t access email from there because …guess what? I put in protections that only allow me coming from my home computers to access. Right. Well, instead, I worked on ‘web stuff’, yes, I did. And manuscripts, of course. Anyway, we’re back online. It was the ISP’s problem, not an issue on our end …which, they always claim, don’t you know …until they finally figure out that, yep, they messed up, yes, they did! I’m downloading email as I type this.
Furtive Prey, JA K-9 Mystery, Book 9 is Out!
Furtive Prey, A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery, Book 9
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 (and no ghost writers)–never. All original D. L. Keur.
NOTE TO FANS: The series doesn’t stop here.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
I had no idea how one of my favorite authors would pursue this series after Cold Scent. Now I know. Once again, Dawn hits the bulls eye in Furtive Prey with a completely different plot, perspective, and execution of a story that is timely to what’s happening in our world today. A winner for me for sure. —L. L. Alexander, freelance editor
I beta read this in one day, shoving aside tasks that I really should have been working on because I just couldn’t stop. From the first line to the last, this was a completely absorbing read. And I love the humor in between the tension. Just super! —Joanne Robinson, mystery lover
Right from the start, Furtive Prey started out hitting hard. Landon gets abducted. What?! Yeah. I couldn’t stop reading, and the story just kept getting more and more intense right through the epilogue. An outstanding follow-up to Cold Scent. I rate Furtive Prey as yet another five star read by D. L. Keur! I can hardly wait to get my hands on the next one when it becomes available. These books are totally addictive. —Mark Peterson, crime and mystery reader
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Game Trail (Book 7) & Cold Scent (Book 8) are Released!
RELEASED: Dec 20, 2023
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.
RELEASED: Nov 5, 2023
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. 🙂 )