Dog Days and Murder Nights

An Unputdownable, Cozy Mystery with Twists & Turns

Rescue dogs. Ruthless secrets. Nobody fakes a heart attack this well.

Former wedding planner Kelsey Woods comes home for a fresh start, trading seating charts for pastry dough at Aunt Clara’s Comfy Café. With a major dog showcase about to flood Carlyle Cove, she whips up the café’s famous doggie treats, ready to impress the crowds. Then a crotchety dog show judge spends the weekend picking fights and collapses dead in public.

Everyone calls it “just his heart.” Kelsey disagrees. The pill bottle she saw him using did not look right.

With retired detective Elinor Brooks at her side, and Elinor’s dachshund Duke on unofficial patrol, Kelsey starts sniffing around. Suspicion circles a saintly animal rescuer, a jittery local veterinarian, and a fiery animal activist, each caught in the judge’s leash of accusations.

But the deeper Kelsey digs, the stranger it gets. When a whistleblower nearly dies in a “freak” accident and threats tighten, the case turns personal.

Now Kelsey has one last show-ring trap to spring. One wrong step could end her new beginning for good.