Deputy Mattie Cobb is in a dark place and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and his family to work on issues from her past. When she and her K-9 partner, Robo, get called to track a missing junior high student, they find the girl dead on Smokerโs Hill behind the high school, and Mattie must head to the Walker home to break the bad news. But thatโs only the start of trouble in Timber Creek, because soon another girl goes missingโand this time itโs one of Coleโs daughters.
Knowing that each hour a child remains missing lessens the probability of finding her alive, Mattie and Robo lead the hunt while Cole and community volunteers join in to search everythingโto no avail. It seems that someone has snatched all trace of the Walker girl from their midst, including her scent. Grasping at straws, Mattie and Robo follow a phoned-in tip into the dense forest, where they hope to find a trace of the girl and rescue her alive. But when Robo does catch her scent, it leads them to information that challenges everything they thought they knew about the case.
Mattie and Robo must rush to hunt down the kidnapper before theyโre too late in HUNTING HOUR, the heart-pounding third installment in Margaret Mizushimaโs exhilarating Timber Creek K-9 mysteries.
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