Tracking a Killer in Blind Search

I hope you had a chance to pick up a copy of Time to Your Elf this weekend when it was on sale! Some of the other books that were on sale or free may still be, so take a look and see what looks like a good addition to your TBR list. You can still get the first book in the Reg Rawlins, Psychic Investigator series, What the Cat Knew, for free.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

My current read is Blind Search, by Paula Munier, the second book in the Mercy Carr mystery series. It is set in Vermont and includes lots of description of local flora and fauna (though not in so much detail that you want to skip over it.) Mercy Carr, the main sleuth in the book, is ex-army and has an army-trained dog (Elvis) to help her out with her investigation. Her sidekick is a game warden and also has a dog (Susie-Bear) trained to track.

It has been quite an enjoyable read so far, I have enjoyed the interplay between the big humans, the dogs, and little Henry, an autistic boy traumatized by whatever he saw in the woods when the victim was murdered. I’m a sucker for dogs and kids!

“Run, Henry!” she whispered.
Henry ran.
And he didn’t look back.

Paula Munier, Blind Search

It’s October, hunting season in the Green Mountains—and the Vermont wilderness has never been more beautiful or more dangerous. Especially for nine-year-old Henry, who’s lost in the woods. Again. Only this time he sees something terrible. When a young woman is found shot through the heart with a fatal arrow, Mercy thinks that something is murder. But Henry, a math genius whose autism often silences him when he should speak up most, is not talking.

Now there’s a murderer hiding among the hunters in the forest—and Mercy and Elvis must team up with their crime-solving friends, game warden Troy Warner and search-and-rescue dog Susie Bear, to find the killer—before the killer finds Henry. When an early season blizzard hits the mountains, cutting them off from the rest of the world, the race is on to solve the crime, apprehend the murderer, and keep the boy safe until the snowplows get through.

Inspired by the true search-and-rescue case of an autistic boy who got lost in the Vermont wilderness, Paula Munier’s mystery is a compelling roller coaster ride through the worst of winter—and human nature.