Heidideifel's Reviews > Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog

I thought this book would be about the compelling stories of people who were missing and how this woman and her dog found them. And from the title, do you blame me? Instead it was a bit about how the author helped other trainers before she got a dog, some about how she trained her own dog, a lot about the dynamics of the dog with the other pets in her house, some sad information about her bad health and failed marriage, and one actual search with the dog on the cover. She starts the book with a story about a missing person but then never says whether they found the person. Uh, hello? That's like a joke with no punch line but a sad version of that. And that lack of ending happened with several of her anecdotes. Instead I get to hear how her coffee was instead of the back story on the missing kid or whether his death was ever solved. The story does not go chronologically or even logically from bit to bit. I don't want to diminish her valuable service to community by giving her book a bad review. It's just that this book had an editor asleep at the wheel.