What’s Coming & What’s Available Now

Posted on December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 by D. L. Keur

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Latest Releases: Critical Traces and Night Trouble

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.

FREE on Kindle Unlimited, $3.99 to buy, PRINT $14.99

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

AUDIO BOOKS OUT

Death Scent, Book 1 of the Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries, narrated by the wonderful Lisa Baarns of Red Baarns Audio.

Stray Trouble, Book 2 of the Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries, narrated by the incomparable Sam Guncler (pronounced Gun-sler)

The 1st Promise, Book 1 of The Promise series, narrated by the awesome and talented Lisa Baarns of Red Baarns Audio.

In Production are

Grim Track, Book 3 of the Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries. It’s with Sam Guncler.
The 2nd Promise, Book 2 of The Promise series, which is presently being narrated by Lisa Baarns of Red Baarns Audio.

Also in production is Night Trouble, Book 1 of the King & Midnight K-9 Mysteries, which is presently pending a rethink on the audio performance.

NOVELS IN THE WORKS

Coercive Power, Book 2 of The King & Midnight K-9 Mysteries

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.

Coercive Power is already available on pre-order

ALSO COMING: Book 11 of The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries. What’s its title? I’m not telling. Not yet.

Critical Traces, JA Book 10 Released Nov. 29, 2024

Posted on November 29, 2024December 30, 2024 by D. L. Keur

Critical Traces: A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery (The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries Book 10)

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

ONLY ON AMAZON

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. 🙂