I had to get out and clean some crusted snow and ice off, so writing time got reduced to a couple of hours only. In good news, we passed our fire inspection so the new furnace is now legal. (Murphy’s Law: If the furnace is going to go out, despite being only six years old, it will wait until the temperature plunges into the subarctic zone …which it did.)
In other good news, and in the realm of writing and novels, Lisa Baarns, one of my book narrators, just finalized Night Trouble and so we’re waiting on ACX/Audible to approve the audio book for release. Happy day. Here’s a sample of the audio book!
The latest release in The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries, Book 10, Critical Traces is out in eBook, Large Print Paperback, and is also available to read for free on Kindle Unlimited. This novel in the continuing K-9 SAR (Canine Search and Rescue) career of Jessica Anderson and her Wonder Mutts was released on November 29th, 2024. The story takes place during late spring/early summer in Bitterroot County, Idaho, while there’s still snow in the high country. Jessie and Landon have now been married 4 1/2 months when war breaks out between wildland trail users. Follow the track as Jessie and her dogs seek their targets, both bad guys and good. FREE on Kindle Unlimited, $3.99 to buy, PRINT $13.99
Let me introduce you to… Mike ‘Midnight’ Murphy and his dog King. This series is K-9 police procedural/crime and set in Arizona!
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.
CLEAN, SAFE READING – No profanity, no gore, no sex, and NO DOGS DIE!
No AI, no ghostwriters, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur
EDITORIAL REVIEW For me to stay up turning pages is rare. This story moves and keeps moving. It got under my skin. There is an attention to small things, an attention to details that takes you right into the scene as if you’re there, yet the story never drags, or at least it didn’t for me, despite only having one dog instead of lots like the author’s other series. And what a dog! This boy is a good, smart dog, smarter than his person. I really was hooked all the way through. Highly recommend. —Larry Hubbard, beta reader
The book is about halfway done. What’s it about? Mike is fighting off the military’s attempt to press gang him back into service while Mogollon County land owners are besieged by what seems to be destructive behavior by rowdy teens. The hidden truth is much more insidious, though.
eBook: FREE on Kindle Unlimited, $3.99 to buy, Print $13.99 (14pt type for easy reading)
A land use war puts Jessie, her dogs, and the entire SAR group in the middle of mayhem and murder.
An injured horseback rider, then two missing ATVers, a gunshot through the engine of one of the machines–thus begins a strange series of wildland trail incidents, all of them on the county’s public lands. When a calamity in a public park brings death and injury due to sabotage of a viewing platform, Sheriff Landon Reid shuts down all public lands. And the incidents stop …only to start again when the trails are reopened for public enjoyment and recreation.
Hikers are hurt, mountain bikers are shot, users of off-road vehicles are found injured or dead, ATVers crushed under their machines when trails are purposely changed to lead to danger, and the sheriff’s office knows they’ve now got a land use war going on, one that puts Jessie, her dogs, and the entire Search and Rescue group in the middle of mayhem and murder.
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 (and no ghost writers)–never. All original D. L. Keur.
EDITORIAL REVIEW
I was asked to read this prior to its publication. I was hesitant. Then, learning what the story was about in a candid talk with D. L. Keur, the author, I went ahead. I’m a horsewoman and dog owner. I’ve lived here in Virginia my whole life, ridden horseback with my father, mother, grandfather, and with my kids. And then, mostly because of a few selfish people, I found myself banned from using trails that, for generations horsemen, including my grandfather and my father, have maintained and used. I am so heartened that somebody–this author–is bringing this to the attention of everyone she can, because our efforts to stop and reverse these decisions banning horseback riders and even dogs have fallen on deaf ears. Thank you, Ms. Keur, for writing this book. …Oh, and, hold onto your socks when you read this book, because it’s incredible. —Sam (Samantha) Miller, horsewoman, wife, proud mother, dog lover, and reader
ebook: FREE ON Kindle Unlimited, buy for $3.99, print: $14.99, 557 pages (14pt print for easy reading)
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.
CLEAN, SAFE READING – No profanity, no gore, no sex, and NO DOGS DIE!
No AI, no ghostwriters, guaranteed. All original D. L. Keur
EDITORIAL REVIEW
For me to stay up turning pages is rare. This story moves and keeps moving. It got under my skin. There is an attention to small things, an attention to details that takes you right into the scene as if you’re there, yet the story never drags, or at least it didn’t for me, despite only having one dog instead of lots like the author’s other series. And what a dog! This boy is a good, smart dog, smarter than his person. I really was hooked all the way through. Highly recommend. —Larry Hubbard, beta reader
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
