A Borrowing of Bones

The instant USA Today bestseller! The first in a gripping new series by Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones is full of complex twists, introducing a wonderful new voice for mystery readers and dog lovers. Grief and guilt are the ghosts that haunt you when you survive what others do not.

After their last deployment, when she got shot, her fiancé Martinez got killed and his bomb-sniffing dog Elvis got depressed, soldier Mercy Carr and Elvis were both sent home, her late lovers last words ringing in her ears "Take care of my partner." Together the two former military policeone twenty-nine-year-old two-legged female with wounds deeper than skin and one handsome five-year-old four-legged Malinois with canine PTSDmarch off their grief mile after mile in the beautiful remote Vermont wilderness. Even on the Fourth of July weekend, when all of Northshire celebrates with fun and frolic and fireworks, its just another walk in the woods for Mercy and Elvisuntil the dog alerts to explosives and they find a squalling baby abandoned near a shallow grave filled with what appear to be human bones. U.

S. Game Warden Troy Warner and his search and rescue Newfoundland Susie Bear respond to Mercys 911 call, and the four must work together to track down a missing mother, solve a cold-case murder, and keep the citizens of Northshire safe on potentially the most incendiary Independence Day since the American Revolution. Its a call to action Mercy and Elvis cannot ignore, no matter what the cost.

MUNIER is the author of the bestselling Plot Perfect, The Writers Guide to Beginnings, Writing with Quiet Hands, and Fixing Freddie A True Story of a Boy, a Mom, and a Very, Very Bad Beagle. She was inspired to write A Borrowing of Bones by the hero working dogs she met through MissionK9Rescue, her own Newfoundland retriever mix rescue Bear, and a lifelong passion for crime fiction. She lives in New England with her family, Bear, and a torbie tabby named Ursula.