Regional books of interest for September: “Striking Range,” by Margaret Mizushima (Crooked Lane) Striking Range by Margaret Mizushima (Crooked Lane Books) Things were a little dicey at the end of Margaret Mizushima’s last Timber Creek K-9 mystery. Raised by a foster mother, Detective Mattie Cobb had discovered her long-lost family. But her mother was still in hiding for witnessing the murder of her husband.