Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Scent of Sabotage by Dana Mentink Blog Tour Book Review

About the Book

Book: Scent of Sabotage

Author: Dana Mentink

Genre: Inspirational Romantic Suspense

Release Date: December 30, 2025

Detective Beth Wolfe’s reunion with investigative journalist Jack St. James is a matter of life or death—and when a masked assailant attacks them, a severe blow leaves Jack with amnesia. Beth and her K-9, Arthur, are determined to keep Jack safe while he regains his lost memories. Was he targeted due to a case he was working on…or does it have something to do with the son they placed for adoption decades ago? When their investigations lead them inside a booby-trapped amusement park, it’s a race against the clock to put all the pieces together and uncover the park owners’ nefarious plot…or die trying.

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My Review

This novel focuses on the older members of the security team, the mother of the family of investigators, Beth, and an older bloodhound, Arthur. But there is still plenty of action and suspense, including kidnapping, attempted murder, and a raging wild fire. Add in a baby given up at birth by teenage Beth, the appearance of the old boyfriend, and an abandoned puppy with a gimpy leg and you have a suspense filled novel with a couple of touching subplots.

Mentink is a skilled writer and this is another good novel and a fitting end to the series. It releases December 30.

My rating: 4/5 stars.

This is book six in the Security Hounds Investigations series. Each book in the series features a different hero and can be read alone. You can read my reviews of the earlier books: Tracking the Truth, Fugitive Search, Hunted on the Trail, Following the Clues, and Detecting Concealed Evidence.

About the Author

Dana Mentink is a New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author as well as a two-time American Christian Fiction Writers Carol Award winner, and a Holt Medallion winner. She is the author of over fifty titles in the suspense and lighthearted romance genres. She is pleased to write for Harlequin’s Love Inspired Suspense, Revell and Poisoned Pen Press.

More from Dana

How could we be at the end of a series? I’ve been having a wonderful time with the Wolfe family and their house full of hounds. The last book is finally Beth’s story. She’s the matriarch of the family who has experienced the loss of a spouse. In this story, she will meet the son she never knew and explore the idea of learning to love again. I feel especially fond of this book because Beth is an older heroine who has some living under her belt. She’s learned how to carry on, with her old dog Arthur, and stand faithfully in the face of adversity. Now that’s a heroine I can root for! I hope you enjoy this final installment of the Security Hounds series!