The Fog Season: Pacific Northwest K-9 Mysteries, Book 4

About The Fog Season: Pacific Northwest K-9 Mysteries, Book 4

Three hikers presumed dead. One missing now. The fog has been hiding more than the trail.

The four pins on Sheriff Vickers’s map all sit on the same twelve-mile stretch of coastal trail. Three are faded. Cold cases.

Solo hikers who vanished in fog season over the past two years — each presumed dead, each case classified as misadventure, each family told their loved one was lost to the marine layer that swallows the Olympic coast from March through June. The fourth pin is fresh. Petra Holm.

Six days missing. Same stretch of trail. Kate Soren reads the map and sees what nobody else has seen.

Eleven months on the Olympic Peninsula, three cases behind her, and Kate has learned that fog is not weather — it is a permanent condition, and a permanent disguise. Scout works air scent in conditions that defeat sight: visibility under thirty feet, sound deadened, every direction the same uniform grey. The fog hides the trail.

The fog hides the predator. The fog has been hiding something the official investigations missed for twenty-six months. The hikers aren’t dead.

They’re three hundred yards off the trail, in a hidden compound, with a woman named Ines who lost someone to the fog and cannot let anyone go. And Petra Holm has six days of supplies left. THE FOG SEASON is the fourth book in Sophie Lyon’s Pacific Northwest K-9 Mysteries, a cozy-adjacent wilderness procedural where the weather is the antagonist and the dog is the way out.

For fans of Sara Driscoll’s FBI K-9 series, Margaret Mizushima’s Timber Creek mysteries, and Dana Stabenow’s atmospheric wilderness procedurals. What readers will find:A standalone serial-disappearance mystery with no graphic violenceThe Pacific coast fog belt rendered with full atmospheric authenticityReal K-9 air-scent work in conditions that defeat every other toolAn antagonist whose grief is wrong but coherentThe protective community of Thorsen’s diner deepensThe dog always comes home.