Friday, November 08, 2024

Ten great mysteries set in the great outdoors

Margaret Mizushima writes the internationally published Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries. She serves as past president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and was elected Writer of the Year by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. She is the recipient of a Colorado Authors League Award, a Benjamin Franklin Book Award, a CIBA CLUE Award, and two Willa Literary Awards by Women Writing the West. Her books have been finalists for a SPUR Award by Western Writers of America, a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award, and the Colorado Book Award. She and her husband recently moved from Colorado, where they raised two daughters and a multitude of animals, to a home in the Pacific Northwest.

Mizushima's new Timber Creek K-9 mystery is Gathering Mist.

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At CrimeReads Mizushima tagged ten favorite mysteries set in the great outdoors. One title on the list:
The Night Woods by Paula Munier

Munier’s Mercy Carr Mysteries are set in the beautiful woods of Vermont. The latest is The Night Woods, book #6, in which the very pregnant Mercy and her Belgian Malinois Elvis discover a body in a missing friend’s cabin. She and Elvis battle a storm to search for her friend, who is the number one suspect in the murder investigation, and they uncover evidence that the real killer is out there ready to strike again. Munier delivers an immersive outdoor setting as a backdrop for a twisty whodunit.
Read about another mystery on the list.

My Book, The Movie: The Night Woods.

The Page 69 Test: The Night Woods.

--Marshal Zeringue