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On the Trail Again…Deep in the heart of the Smoky Mountain wilderness there are a thousand things that will kill you. One of them is human.Wilderness expert and dog trainer Raine Stockton agrees to help lead a survival skills training camp for her fiancé’s executive team. She is unaware that…

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1 author picked Dead Man's Trail as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

What I love about this mystery, the 16th in a series and the first in the Hunter saga that continues in the author’s two other mystery series, is that it’s the perfect blend of light and dark.

There’s a cute dog and his feisty owner, Raine. There’s a love story. There’s a band of disparate characters on a weekend corporate retreat, one of whom may or may not be a thief. There’s also a dismembered body or two, and a serial killer on the loose in a remote mountain setting where the not-so-merry band is trapped with no way out.

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