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Margaret Mizushima'south latest mystery, Tracking Game, finds sleuth Maggie Cobb and her canine companion Robo on the chase for both a murderer and a wild beast in the dangerous terrain of the Rocky Mountains. Here, Mizushima lists her favorite crime-solving, very good dogs in fiction.

Like many of you, my family unit and I love our dogs. My husband is a veterinary, and he's happiest when we have a pack of dogs at our house. Correct now we have four, all working dogs who either hunt birds or herd cattle. Only our experience from years ago when we trained 2 of our dogs in search and rescue gave me the background I needed for developing the canis familiaris character in my Timber Creek M-nine Mystery series.

Robo is a German shepherd trained in patrol and narcotics detection, and he's Deputy Mattie Cobb's partner in the fictional mountain town of Timber Creek, Colorado. Along with veterinarian Cole Walker, Robo and Mattie solve crimes that involve animals and humans in their mount community.

Robo plays a big part in every novel, staying busy with tracking fugitives, searching for bear witness, sniffing out drugs and rescuing people. He stars in five books so far, with the fifth, Tracking Game, out today from Crooked Lane Books.

The number of canis familiaris characters in mysteries has blossomed over the past few years. I could keep and on list these great stories, but to get you started on some enjoyable reading, here is a partial listing of some of the most popular dogs in crime fiction.

Maggie from Robert Crais' Scott James & Maggie mysteries
Crais' Suspect introduces traumatized LAPD officer Scott James, who is recovering from an assault in which his partner was killed and he most lost his life. He's barely fit to render to duty until he'south paired with his new partner Maggie, a bomb-sniffing German shepherd that lost her handler in Afghanistan. Their partnership offers healing for both; and if you dear Maggie equally much every bit I practise, Crais has written a sequel chosen The Promise that continues the story of this crime-fighting duo.

Hawk from Sara Driscoll's FBI G-ix mysteries
Solitary Wolf is our intro to FBI Special Amanuensis Million Jennings and Hawk, her search-and-rescue Labrador. It'southward a thrilling novel in which this squad races confronting time to track down a bomber who is one of the deadliest killers in the state. Driscoll volition release the 4th volume in the series, No Man'due south Country, afterwards this month.

All of the dogs in Alex Kava's Ryder Creed mysteries
Alex Kava pens a series featuring FBI agent Maggie O'Dell and Ryder Creed, an ex-marine turned K-9 rescue canis familiaris trainer. In Breaking Creed, one of Creed's narcotics detection canines discovers a secret compartment on a commercial angling vessel off the Pensacola Beach coast. But the Colombian cartel's latest shipment isn't drugs—it's people. At that place are five books in the series and so far.

Elvis from Paula Munier's Mercy & Elvis mysteries
A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier features ex-soldier Mercy Carr and retired armed services K-nine Elvis, who were both traumatized when Mercy'southward fiancé—also Elvis'south handler—was killed on their final deployment. Blind Search, the second book in this Vermont-set serial, is out at present.

Clyde from Barbara Nickless' Sydney Rose Parnell mysteries
Blood on the Tracks is volume 1 in this thrilling series featuring railroad constabulary Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell and her Belgian Malinois partner Clyde, both haunted by their fourth dimension spent in the armed services in Iraq. Set in the depths of an icy Colorado winter, Parnell and Clyde descend into the underground world of runway riders to solve a murder. At that place are three mysteries in this series and so far.

Chet from Spencer Quinn's Chet and Bernie mysteries
Spencer Quinn introduced a wise and lovable canine narrator in Canis familiaris On It, the first volume of the Chet and Bernie mystery serial. In this outset episode, Chet teams up with Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator, when they take on a new case involving a frantic mother searching for her teenage daughter. Currently, there are ix mysteries in this entertaining series.

The novels listed here offer reading pleasure to mystery lovers and dog lovers akin. I invite you to partake and hope y'all enjoy the twists, turns and adventures as much equally I exercise. Here's wishing you happy reading!