The Burning Season: K-9 Search & Rescue Mysteries, Book 5

About The Burning Season: K-9 Search & Rescue Mysteries, Book 5

The Ridgeline Fire is four thousand acres and growing. The Warren Haskell trial begins in one week. And someone just found remains in the burn zone. Twenty-six years after Brianna Hartley disappeared into the Colorado wilderness, justice is finally within reach. Gemma is set to testify. Vera Hartley-Price, who has attended every legal proceeding in Elk Creek for a quarter century hoping for answers, is finally going to get them. But the mountains have other plans. When firefighters report human remains in the path of the advancing wildfire, Gemma and Kira are deployed into an active fire zone to confirm and recover before the evidence burns. What they find deep in the Haskell family’s back country is the final piece of a case that was never supposed to be solved. The trial will happen. The evidence will speak. But Warren Haskell has spent twenty-six years being the most untouchable man in Elk Creek and he didn’t build that protection to abandon it now. In a season of fire and reckoning, Gemma will finally learn whether the truth is enough. And whether the mountains that kept Brianna’s secret so long are finally ready to let it go.

Perfect for fans of C. J. Box, Dana Stabenow, and Nevada Barr. The Burning Season is the culmination of the cold case arc, emotional, propulsive, and deeply satisfying. Book 5 of 14. The Brianna Hartley cold case reaches its courtroom reckoning. Start with Book 1: Trail Gone Dark