Dying Cry
By (Author) Margaret Mizushima
Crooked Lane Books
Crooked Lane Books
25th November 2025
14th October 2025
United States
General
Fiction
Hardback
320
Width 155mm, Height 234mm
A killer lurks in Colorado's snowy high country in Dying Cry, the tenth thrilling installment of award-winning author Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mystery series. A killer lurks in Colorado's snowy high country in Dying Cry, the tenth thrilling installment of award-winning author Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mystery series. Newlyweds Mattie and Cole Walker are teaching Cole's daughters how to snowshoe in a remote canyon when a shattering scream pierces the air. They know that somewhere ahead, someone has been injured or worse. Cole takes the girls while Mattie and Robo go deeper into the canyon to search for the source of the scream. From a distance, Mattie and Robo see a shadowy figure at the base of a cliff, but a rockslide buries the person under layers of stone and shale before they can provide help. Desperate to uncover the individual in case they're still alive under the rock, their efforts are in vain. The victim is already dead. When they investigate the canyon rim from which the person fell, they discover evidence that indicates the fall was no accident. To make matters worse, the victim was one of Cole's friends. The Timber Creek County investigative team springs into action, uncovering a trail of greed that leads to a killer who threatens Mattie's cherished new family and tests her with the most difficult task she's faced in her duty as a K-9 handler.
Praise for Dying Cry:
Mizushima has a terrific series . . . Ten books in, and Mizushima still gets better with every entry.
First Clue Reviews
Absolute perfection . . . a true tour de force. Mizushimas storytelling is both deeply specific and universally resonant, woven with vulnerability and empathy.
Laurie Buchanan, author of the Sean McPherson thrillers, including The Illusionist
Margaret Mizushima served as past president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and was elected 2019 Writer of the Year by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. 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.