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Summit's Edge by Sara Driscoll Series: FBI K-9 #9
Published by Kensington Books on November 26, 2024
Genres: Romantic Suspense
Pages: 320
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
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As long as there’s hope of finding life, no mission is too dangerous for Meg Jennings and her colleagues in the FBI K-9 unit. But locating the wreckage of a hijacked private plane high in the Elk Mountains of Colorado is treacherous in a multitude of ways—some of them impossible for even a seasoned team to predict.
The plane, carrying the board of directors of Barron Pharmaceuticals, crashed on a rocky peak and was cleaved in two. Perilous weather means the rescuers have to ascend on foot, with their dogs unleashed in case of falls. It takes hours to locate the wreckage, but miraculously, Meg and Hawk find half a dozen passengers and crew still alive. The hijacker also survived, and has fled into the wilderness with the CEO’s son in pursuit.
The FBI K-9 series is one of the better ones for realistic work where the dogs are key in the story and do actual training and work. There is the police work the characters are doing with the dogs. The personal relationship of the teams, their friends and family is well developed.
Our team is sent to search for a crashed corporate plane. A flight attendant calls in to say a hijacker has shot someone on the plane. The crash is in the Colorado Rockies, north of Colorado Springs. The mountains there are very high and can be treacherous. Plus the cold weather can cause a variety of issues. When Meg is packing, her fiancé Todd brings up altitude illness. It’s another big factor for the search teams to manage.
Most of the story is the hard effort of covering lots of difficult terrain to find the crashed plane. Shockingly, there are survivors in various conditions. After only a couple hours of sleep, Meg and Brian, along with more local FBI folks are off to search for the hijacker who took off after the crash. Fighting weather, landscapes including avalanche, exhaustion, the team does their job. They get some information support from their journalist friend McCord who researches the hijacker’s real identity.
Summit’s Edge was tense in a different way than some earlier books. For one thing, they found the plane crash somewhat quickly. While the search area was huge, the plane wasn’t moving. The second part was tracking down the hijacker to bring him to justice. He needed to be caught before he left the area.
I always enjoy K-9 stories so much. The ending is a nice personal scene for the characters.
I read all types of books but my favorites are urban fantasy and romantic suspense.I like some romance and some action / adventure / mystery in everything.I like sex in my books but please, only between TWO people.Intimate conversation is equally important to the sex in a book.It lets me see the characters.The other thing I enjoy is humor.
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I like the sound of this series and the cover is nice. Anything dog related and I’m there lol.
I love this series. The dog work is more realistic than many of them.
This series looks good. I’ll be adding book 1 to my TBR. I’ve only found one other series that has been really realistic with dogs and I loved the series (K-9 Rescue by D.D. Ayres). Thanks for the great review.
I love this one and some others would be by Paula Munier and Margaret Mizushima.
Well I added Paula Munier to my TBR. Thanks for the recommendations. ^_^
Thank you so much for reading and sharing your thoughts on SUMMIT’S EDGE!
I love your series. Every book is great. I hope you’ll be able to write more.
Thank you so much! I’m working on the sequel, book #10, as we speak, and am contracted for book #11 to follow. Lots more Meg and Hawk to come!
Sounds like an intense mission! This is a series I’d like to read from the beginning.
yes you should read from the beginning to see the career and personal progressions and all the books are really great.
It’s the dogs that keep bringing my back to this series! Though Meg and Todd are great, too. I’m looking forward to reading this one when my library finally gets some copies of it.
yes I enjoy each book.
I honestly should read more romantic suspense.
I usually prefer it to contemporary romance without the mystery or suspense.
I’ve been slowly collecting these on my Kindle. I really need to start them!
oh I’m so excited for you having these to read!
Love that this series is paying off. Great review, Anne💜
Thank you. It’s really a favorite.