I like books about police dogs, and "Killing Trail" by Margaret Mizushima is a fine edition to police dog books. This book centers around Deputy Mattie Cobb of the Timber Creek, Colorado Police and her police dog, Robo. Mattie and Robo haven't been a team for too long as the book opens. However, the pair are already working quite well together.
Timber Creek is a fairly quite place, but recently, there has been an uptick in drug crime in the area. With Robo's help, the police are hoping to get a handle on the problem.
The main plot of the book involves a murder of a young girl. Robo discovers the body, and the girl's dog who is wounded. Mattie takes the dog to the veterinary and meets the recently divorced Dr. Cole Walker. To Mattie and Cole's shock, they discover that the wounded dog was being used to traffic drugs inside her body.
Thus begins an interesting mystery that Mattie and Robo set out to solve. During the course of the novel, we learn more about Mattie's past, and Mattie's relationships with her colleagues on the force and with Dr. Walker develop during the course of the book.
Robo is an important part of the book and not just an afterthought as you will find in some books with police dogs. His relationship with others in the book also develops as the story moves along.
"Killing Trail" is well-written, and you will quickly be drawn into the action and the mystery. The author has done an excellent job of setting up the situation and the characters to have several other books in this series.
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