novels – To Infinity & Beyond Forever

What’s Coming & What’s Available Now

Posted on June 26, 2024June 29, 2024 by D. L. Keur

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Latest Release: Furtive Prey

The latest release in The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries, Book 9, Furtive Prey, 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 June 7th, 2024. The story takes place while it’s still deep winter in Bitterroot County, Idaho, the snow deep and the consistency of a slushy—not dog tracking/trailing weather in the wilderness. That doesn’t mean there isn’t something happening, though, and, in fact, happen it does. Enjoy the adventure. Follow the trail as Jessie and her dogs, once again, seek their targets, both bad guys and good.

Coming Soon! – Lots of News Here.

Audio books becoming available

for Stray Trouble, Book 2 of The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries

Stray Trouble is being narrated by the incomparable Sam Guncler. I’m in awe of his performance of it. It’s …WOW! Can’t wait for you to hear it!

BTW, the audio version of Death Scent came out a while back. It’s narrated by Lisa Baarns of Red Baarns Audio. Those who would like a code to get a free copy, sign up for my newsletter for the instructions on how to. , because that’s about the only way you can keep up with new releases, plus there will be other stuff coming for you …like maybe a prequel—what happened that caused Jessie to flee home to the Bitterroots.

and for The First Promise (A Love Story co-authored by D. L. Keur and Carole HIll), narrated by Lisa Baarns of Red Baarns Audio.

Coming Soon in New Book Releases

Critical Traces, A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery, Book 10

Yes, it’s already in the works and on pre-order . And it’s nothing but the wonder mutts in action trying to save the lives of both the innocent and guilty.

And, Psst! There’s something else in the works, too!

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 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

Furtive Prey, JA K-9 Mystery, Book 9 is Out!

Posted on June 7, 2024June 29, 2024 by D. L. Keur

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

Only at Amazon:
FREE on Kindle Unlimited, $3.99 eBook, also available in Large Print.

Troubled Pursuit, Book 6 of the Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries

Posted on August 28, 2023June 29, 2024 by D. L. Keur

RELEASED: July 12, 2023

AVAILABLE AT AMAZON IN EBOOK (3.99) and PRINT. Also available to read for free on Kindle Unlimited!

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.

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Mysteries are mental mazes, and this one had me going …and going. First, I couldn’t see the connection …and, even when the characters made the connection for me, it took till the end for me to slap my forehead and groan. Well done, D. L. Keur. And, as usual, the book tears at your heart and makes you laugh, too. And then, of course, there’s the consequences to BOTH my dog’s and my diet. The food!! Beware the food scenes! —L. L. Alexander, freelance editor

I am so glad that somebody believes in good and, no matter what, kept going to find the missing. I was so afraid, but, when the end came, the rewards were worth the nail-biting tension. A really good read! —Joanne Robinson, mystery lover

I think what I like best about this author’s work is that the handling is consistently real. I went back and read the first four that I had not read before being asked to beta read number 5, Dead Falls, and reading that in beta, before editing, I was hooked. So when number six came my way, I jumped in. This author knows her world, her characters, and the life and story situations are so real it makes one wonder if this isn’t actually non-fiction dressed as fiction. I really feel like, were I to travel to Idaho and chase them down, they’d be there real-time. Troubled Pursuit is an excellent book and a great continuation of a great series. —Mark Peterson, crime and mystery reader

Troubled Pursuit-I’m Having an Awesome Time Writing It For You.

Posted on June 3, 2023June 27, 2024 by D. L. Keur

The book has been full of surprises for me as an author. The police procedural part got written straight through …except for the very tense ending which I tend to avoid doing until there’s no other choice …because it takes me hours to recover from the stress. (Authors, at least this author, live the scenes as they write them, so your body’s adrenaline rush gets to you.)

The book is already on pre-order and it says it has a release date of mid-August. I’m planning on a much sooner release, but we’ll see, won’t we?

Meanwhile, it’s been a real kick experiencing the ongoing SAR and HRD ops that Jessie and her wonder mutts execute, sometimes with the whole team involved. And Landon? People keep throwing wrenches into his attempt to keep an ordered life, especially his new house guest, Dr. Sol Preston!

This update happened because I just finished another scene that thrilled me!

Okay. Back to your regular activities, now, as I get back to writing. 🙂

A New Series in the Making

Posted on January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 by D. L. Keur

Yes. That’s right. I’m writing a new fiction series.

No. I’m not going to tell you much about it, yet. It will be a surprise.

But I will share this: It features a female protagonist. It’s set in today’s rural West (as in U.S. West), but, unlike Through Better & Worse and To Have & To Hold, it’s NOT a Western Family Saga, and it’s certainly not Modern Western Romance. It’s got absolutely no profanity and no sex. It’s got no ‘gruel’ — no gratuitous cruelty, gore, and/or barbarism.

Will you like it? I think a lot of people will, yes.

Why am I writing it? Because I need something in my catalog that will appeal to a broader audience than my more literary efforts.

I write good books. But, unfortunately, what I’ve published doesn’t fit neatly into a genre. This series will, though. This series will fit right into one major fiction genre that people love.

More later.

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