D. L. Keur's Novels, Books, and Series

Night Trouble — a King & Midnight K-9 Mystery (Book 1)

Mike “Midnight” Murphy has two goals in life—find his wife’s killers and let his retired bomb dog live out his days in peace. Wounded in war, terminated from Austin P.D., Mike returns home to Mogollon County, Arizona, and lands himself a job …with the local sheriff’s office. He’s back on the inside. He’s back on the hunt.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Coercive Power — a King & Midnight K-9 Mystery (Book 2)

Chief Deputy Mike Murphy is in trouble. The military is doing its best to press gang him back into uniform. He needs a lawyer, one really well-versed in military law. Meanwhile, somebody is trying to run a newcomer off their land in escalating incidents of violence. When that violence turns to attempted murder, Mogollon County Sheriff's Office mounts a counter-offensive and discovers subversive coercion is in full play.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Toxic Deceit — a King & Midnight K-9 Mystery (Book 3)

When a young woman exhibiting signs of psychosis is killed, it seems like a drug-induced frenzy ...until Chief Deputy Mike Murphy looks into her background—she was a vegan, a Buddhist, a mid-level bank manager with a Bachelor's in Business Management, not a drug user. Then, another woman dies after falling into a seizure-induced coma and, hours later, a family of four is admitted to the hospital, all of them showing signs of poisoning, possibly due to contaminated food. And then toxicology reveals the hidden truth: there's a spree killer on the loose in Mogollon County.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Zero Tolerance — a King & Midnight K-9 Mystery (Book 4)

Sheriff Hank Powers has vanished. Suspected kidnapped, Chief Deputy Michael J. “Midnight” Murphy must, by law, put out a ‘Blue Alert’, notifying appropriate agencies, including the AZDPS and the FBI, as he assumes temporary control of the Office of the Sheriff of Mogollon County. What Mike knows is that he’s got hours only to find and secure the life of a man he not only admires, but respects, because the people who Mike suspects took Powers aren’t playing games. They’re playing for keeps, and state and federal help are ten full hours away.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Death Scent (Book 1)

Her first mistake was calling 9-1-1.

Drones were supposed to make life easier for Jessie and her search and rescue dogs. Instead, they've made everything a lot more complicated. Her equipment confiscated, her very freedom threatened, Jessica Anderson finds herself in the crosshairs of both law enforcement and a vicious killer when her drones discover a body on the slopes of Long Peak.

When evidence points to other victims, though, it's Jessie and her search dogs who law enforcement need to find their remains. What nobody suspects, though, is that the killer is watching, waiting, anticipating …ready.

A novel of a woman and her beloved dogs, a woman who, having fled a career in law enforcement, finds herself the target of, both, the sheriff and a murderer.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Stray Trouble

Predator or prey? Jessie must decide.

Called out on a night search for two missing teens, Jessie and her pack of search dogs again team up with Bitterroot County Sheriff Landon Reid on a dangerous case involving multiple missing persons, felonious assault, and, ultimately, murder.

When Reid takes a bullet following a lead from Jessie’s snooping drones, his second-in-command authorizes a manhunt to run the fugitives to ground. Despite the risk, and against her better judgment, Jessie sets her dogs to tracking down the criminals, only to find that she and the deputies with her are in lethal danger from silent killers.

The story of a woman and her beloved dogs who step into the line of fire to save the lives of others.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Grim Track

Dead or alive? Only her dogs know.

When an Alzheimer’s patient goes missing, no one thinks it’s more than a daughter’s careless mistake …except Jessica. When members of the patient’s family go missing, foul play becomes a certainty.

The Bitterroot County Sheriff’s Office and the whole search and rescue team kick it into high gear with the disappearance of Sheriff Reid and some of the last surviving family members.

The story of a woman and her beloved pack of search dogs who will stop at nothing to save the lives of both friend and stranger.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Dire Traces

Her dogs keep finding them, but more keep disappearing.

A lost teen in Western Montana, four strayed hikers in Eastern Oregon, then more kids lost in Bitterroot County tests the mettle of the newly formed multi-county SAR group and stretches the endurance of Jessica Anderson and her dogs to the breaking point. When camera crews catch a rescue on film, Jessie and her dogs are put in dire jeopardy, and Sheriff Landon Reid and his deputies can't get there fast enough to save her.

The story of a woman and her pack of search dogs who risk it all to save the life of an innocent.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

This is an ongoing series. It doesn't stop here.

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Dead Falls

The living and the dead—her dogs keep finding them.

Rape, abduction, and multiple victims dead from unknown causes confound the Bitterroot County Sheriff’s Office until Jessie’s dogs uncover a connection to an even bigger case. Jessie and her pack are on task and tracking, but what they’re tracking could make Jessie the prime target for revenge.

The story of a woman and her beloved pack of search dogs who will stop at nothing to protect their own.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Troubled Pursuit

Jessie & her dogs step right into the crosshairs of the desperate.

Missing kids, a missing mom, and a headless cadaver confound the Office of the Sheriff and lead Jessie and her dogs deep into the wilderness in search of someone determined not to be found. But the kids are there. So is the killer.

The story of a woman and her beloved dogs who keep on trying, though time is running out.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Game Trail

Jessie’s dogs are hot on track when unknown assailants hit the Bitterroot.

Three shots, two hunters near death from blunt force trauma delivered by an unknown attacker …or two …or more. Somebody is hunting hunters …with high-powered, customized paintball rifles. An anti-hunting campaign? That’s what it seems. And the assailants carry real guns, too.

When two Search and Rescue personnel out endurance training are also hit, that makes it personal for Jessie. Yet another attack leaves multiple victims critically injured, and one dead—same MO. Now it’s murder.

Conspiracy, murder, and mayhem pit Jessie and her dogs, along with Sheriff Landon Reid and his deputies against attackers playing a dangerous endgame.

The story of a woman and her beloved dogs determined to save lives, no matter the odds.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Cold Scent

An angry mother, two missing persons, and it’s personal. Jessie and her dogs are on a cold trail.

It’s coming Christmas in the Bitterroots when cross country skiers turn up lost, and Jessie and her dogs are on a cold trail as acts of vengeance begin to mar the peace. Kidnapping, arson, and attempted murder pit Jessie Anderson and Sheriff Landon Reid against the elements and unknown assailants, the dogs their allies and support in fending off the acrimony of revenge.

The story of a woman and her beloved search and rescue dogs who, working together, save lives.

AUTHOR’S NOTE TO HER READERS: You’ve asked repeatedly, and I’ve listened. So, here, in this tale of Christmas, I share with you some of the secrets held so close by both families, the Andersons and the Reids.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Furtive Prey

Stolen top secret technology, and Jessie’s dogs are in desperate pursuit of the thieves who took it.

It’s March in the Bitterroots—still winter—and Jessie and Landon are on their way home from their honeymoon when an HSI special agent and U.S. Marshals jerk Landon out of the car and whisk him off in a helicopter. From there, a crisis of national security proportions pits Sheriff Landon Reid against the Department of Homeland Security, with the FBI’s regional director, Special-Agent-in-Charge Andy Newsome, stuck in the middle after a very advanced organoid intelligence—an experimental biocomputer using lab-grown human brain tissue infused with AI—is stolen from the DARPA lab out of Idaho Falls, Idaho …and its signal emanates from somewhere in Bitterroot County. They just can’t find it. But maybe Jessie’s dogs can.

The story of a woman and her beloved pack of search dogs who, when asked to, try to find the improbable against impossible odds.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Critical Traces, A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery (Book 10)

A land use war puts Jessie, her dogs, and her SAR group in the middle of murder.

An injured horseback rider, then two missing ATVers, a gunshot through the engine of one of the machines--thus begins a strange series of wildland trail incidents, all of them on the county's public lands. When a calamity in a public park brings death and injury due to sabotage of a viewing platform, Sheriff Landon Reid shuts down all public lands. And the incidents stop ...only to start again when the trails are reopened for public enjoyment and recreation.

Hikers are hurt, mountain bikers are shot, users of off-road vehicles are found injured or dead, ATVers crushed under their machines when trails are purposely changed to lead to danger, and the sheriff's office knows they've now got a land use war going on, one that puts Jessie, her dogs, and the entire Search and Rescue group in the middle of mayhem and murder.

The story of a woman and her beloved SAR dogs who push their every limit to save the guilty and the innocent.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Urgent Track — A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery (Book 11)

A kid in a hole leads to more as Jessie's dogs scour the wilds of Bitterroot County. Against impossible odds, Jessie's dogs never give up.

It’s high summer when, after a SAR dog trial, Jessie’s pack mascot, Duchess, goes missing, and, in finding Duchess, Jessie’s dogs discover a child lodged in a hole deep below ground. Then Jessie’s dogs find evidence of another …and another.

Thus begins a desperate race against the odds to find them all when Bitterroot County Sheriff’s Office uncovers origin and cause. There are at least four kids out there, and Sheriff Landon Reid orders any available members from their entire multi-county, multi-state SAR group into the Bitterroots in an emergency search for bodies, alive or dead.

The story of a woman and her dogs who never give up, despite impossible odds.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Vanishing Traces — A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery (Book 12)

Her dogs keep trying.

When locals go missing, foul play begins to be suspected. There’s no proof of a crime or crimes; there is only the fact that people keep vanishing in the wilderness—people who normally wouldn’t—seasoned hikers. And the dogs can’t find them. Their scent just vanishes into thin air.

But the dogs keep trying, miss after miss, until, finally, the dogs themselves figure it out.

The story of a woman and her dogs determined to find the lost.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.

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Come Calling, A Sam & Mr. Nosy K-9 Cozy Mystery (Book 1)

With a new horse, a found dog, lost people push Sam Cassidy back out on the high trails in North Idaho.

Samantha “Sam” Cassidy, a widow and sixty-eight years feisty, is a member of the local mounted search and rescue (SAR). A transplant to North Idaho long time passing, come there when she was just fifteen, she’s now ‘vintage Idaho'.

When Sam’s horse succumbs to cancer, her son buys her ‘Trucker’, a horse she’s admired since first she set eyes on him two years ago. First day home with Trucker, and, come calling, is a dog—a big dog—lost and hungry.

Thus begins a fresh start in Sam’s life as that dog proves himself to be a new best friend and way, way more—a wizard at finding the lost.

Clean, safe reading — no sex, gore, or profanity. And no dog dies.

No AI, no ghostwriters. All original D. L. Keur.
Clean Reading—no sex, no gore, no profanity, and NO DOGS DIE.
Just pure, clean fun.

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