Margaret MizushimaMargaret Mizushima is the author of the Timber Creek K-9 mystery series which includes Killing Trail (Crooked Lane, 2015), nominee for an RT Reviewer’s Choice Award; Stalking Ground (Crooked Lane, 2016), finalist in the 2017 Colorado Bok Awards and International Book Awards, and Gold Medal winner in the Reader’s Favorites Awards; and Hunting Hour (Crooked Lane, 2017), nominee for an RT Reviewer’s Choice Award. She has a background in speech pathology and practiced in an acute care hospital before establishing her own rehabilitation agency. Currently, she balances writing with assisting her husband with their veterinary clinic and Angus cattle herd. She enjoys reading and hiking, and she lives on a small ranch in Colorado where she and her husband raised two daughters and a multitude of animals. Read More Read Less