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Bone Yard (2000)

by Donna Ball(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Fiction

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Raine Stockton Dog Mystery

review 1: Nice dog/outdoors mystery series. Main character is much less bitchy in this book. (She should have taken a Xanax in the first book) Well worth readingFirst paragraphsONE It’s the kind of story the newspapers always love: family dog drags home human bones from the woods. Hunting dog sniffs out human remains beneath the autumn leaves. Beloved family pet digs up the bones of a murder victim in suburban backyard. Well, let me tell you, it doesn’t make for nearly such great reading when it’s your beloved family pet, and when the bones are buried in your backyard. And it’s even worse when that backyard has been in your family for over one hundred fifty years. I mean, it’s not as though you could blame the bones on the person who lived there before you. ... moreMy name is Raine Stockton, and I have lived in the small Smoky Mountain community of Hansonville, North Carolina all my life. My father was a judge. My mother was a respected community leader and member of the Hansonville Methodist Choir for two decades . My uncle, up until his heart attack last month, had been the county sheriff for almost thirty years. I even married—and divorced—one of his deputies. I think it’s fair to say I come from a perfectly respectable, law-abiding background.I have had my share of run-ins with the bad guys—my volunteer work in Search and Rescue has put me in harm’s way more than once—but for the most part I live a quiet life. I work part time for the Forest Service. I train dogs. I run a boarding kennel. I do my best to stay out of trouble.People don’t, as a general rule, get buried in my backyard. As you can probably tell, I was a little irked about it. It all started on a gray cold November morning, and my mood wasn’t much better than the dripping weather outside. I was on the downside of my thirties and was starting to understand that things were not going to work out at all as I had planned.Ball, Donna (2011-05-09). Bone Yard (Raine Stockton Dog Mystery) (Kindle Locations 53-71). Blue Merle Publishing. Kindle Edition.
review 2: I've been waiting for this book (well, not really a book - more like a long short story) for several years, ever since I read the first 3 books in the series. It features Raine Stockton, dog trainer, and an assortment of believable dogs, including Cisco, her golden retriever. (Also a collie, 2 Australian Shepherds, and a border collie who now belongs to a pet psychic) I hope she can squeeze in a sheltie along the way. The plot is good, for such a short story, and the characters are top notch. This is definitely a cozy - no gore or violence - just my kind of story.We've been promised a full length book around Christmas, and I'm eagerly awaiting it. This is a series that deserves quite a few more books. less

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