Laura Scott - True Blue K-9 Unit Christmas

’Tis the season for danger...

in these True Blue K-9 Unit holiday novellas

In “Holiday Emergency” by Laura Scott, paramedic Pete Stalling vows to help Officer Faith Johnson and her loyal K-9 track her ex’s killer before her daughter becomes the next victim. And in Maggie K. Black’s “Crime Scene Christmas,” Teddy Kowalski and his K-9 partner join forces with tech whiz Danielle Abbot on a deadly search to uncover a mysterious child’s identity.

LAURA SCOTTis a nurse by day and an author by night. She has always loved romance and read faith-based books by Grace Livingston Hill in her teenage years. She’s thrilled to have published over twenty-five books for Love Inspired Suspense. She has two adult children and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her husband of over thirty years. Please visit Laura at laurascottbooks.com, as she loves to hear from her readers.

MAGGIE K. BLACKis an award-winning journalist and romantic suspense author with an insatiable love of traveling the world. She has lived in the American South, Europe and the Middle East. She now makes her home in Canada with her history-teacher husband, their two beautiful girls and a small but mighty dog. Maggie enjoys connecting with her readers at maggiekblack.com.

True Blue K-9 Unit Christmas

Holiday Emergency

Laura Scott

Crime Scene Christmas

Maggie K. Black

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ISBN: 978-0-008-90076-2

TRUE BLUE K-9 UNIT CHRISTMAS

Holiday Emergency © 2019 Laura Scott Crime Scene Christmas © 2019 Maggie K. Black

Published in Great Britain 2019

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Meet the police officers of the True Blue K-9 Unit series and their brave K-9 partners

Officer:Faith Johnson

K-9 Partner:Ricci the German shepherd

Assignment:Figure out who killed her ex-husband before the killer comes after her daughter

Officer:Teddy Kowalski

K-9 Partner:Garfunkel the Belgian Malinois

Assignment:Keep K-9 unit tech expert Danielle Abbot safe and put the person after her behind bars

Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Note to Readers

Introduction

Holiday Emergency

Dear Reader

Bible Verse

Dedication

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

Crime Scene Christmas

Dear Reader

Bible Verse

Dedication

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

Extract

About the Publisher

Holiday Emergency

Laura Scott

Dear Reader,

Christmas is a very special time of the year, one in which we should always remember our blessings. It’s been an honor and privilege to work on this series with such a talented group of authors.

I hope you enjoyed Faith and Pete’s story, along with the entire True Blue K-9 Unit series. I’ve spent time in New York, but not necessarily in Queens, so please forgive my mistakes, as they are truly my own.

I love hearing from my readers, and can be found through my website at www.laurascottbooks.com, on Facebook at Laura Scott Authorand on Twitter, @laurascottbooks. I also offer a free novella for all newsletter subscribers. If you’re inclined to participate, you can join through my website.

Yours in faith,

Laura Scott

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

—Luke 2:11–12

This book is dedicated to my new son-in-law, Michael Collins, and his son, Lucas. We are blessed to have you as part of our family.

Paramedic Pete Stallings peered through the fat snowflakes in an attempt to find the spot along the Jackie Robinson Parkway where an injured man waited. The bright Christmas lights hanging from the streetlamps were almost obliterated by the falling snow.

There!

He yanked the wheel to pull over to the side of the road behind the squad car and threw the gearshift into Park.

“Let’s go.” Ignoring the wet snow melting on the nape of his neck he hurried to the back of the rig. It was disconcerting to have the crime scene so close to his home in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, but he thrust the thought aside.

His partner, Kim Turner, was waiting when he opened the side-by-side doors. Together, they carried the gurney over the snowbank to where the uniformed officer was waving them down. As they grew closer, Pete could see the body of a man lying in bloodstained snow with a bleeding abdominal wound covered by a towel placed by the cop on the scene.