Review for Carolina Mountain Living by schuyler kaufman for Murder at Blue Falls
Maggie Bishop

Maggie Bishop's latest romance is also a murder mystery.
Bishop has chosen a new kind of setting-a dude ranch in the
western Carolina mountains-and all of her real-life characters
are in attendance.
Five years before, Jemma Chase had come back to Blue Falls
Ranch, the dude ranch her parents had set up in the Carolina
mountains. Now, dogs around the Watauga County community are being poisoned.
Almost immediately, we discover an unorthodox side to Bishop's engaging heroine: on the way into the sheriff's office to answer questions about the case, she thinks,"It's one thing to poison a person - but a dog?"
Standing six feet tall, Jemma intrigues Detective Tucker when he finds that he can look straight into her eyes. During her  interview, Jemma reveals that, years before, she was arrested in Colorado on a drunk driving charge. Bishop loses no time in providing the conflict between these two well-matched protagonists: Tucker's pet abomination is drunk drivers.
The dog-poisonings quickly fade to the background, when, during a ride up a steep trail, leading a passel of guests, Jemma's horse reacts to a peculiar stench. Jemma, not one of those shrinking-violet heroines, immediately ties her horse and goes into the bushes to investigate.
You guessed it-a body. Now Tucker is a part of Jemma's daily life, and Jemma finds herself enthusiastically (and somewhat to Tucker's dismay) finding a CSI side to her make-up. As they combine their assets to investigate, Tucker (whose first name appears to be Detective) and Jemma find that their styles are not so incompatible after all. In a rip-snorting action scene, the murderer is discovered and bagged, the remaining dogs in the valley are safe, and Tucker and Jemma join Bishop's endearing circle of interrelated romance protagonists in Bishop's loosely linked series of Appalachian
adventure-romance novels.