A Dog Gone Murder
Published on 25. April 2024
240 pages
978-1-62567-342-8 (ISBN)
Description
Mystery shopper Josie Marcus catches a new case when the owner of a popular doggy day spa bites the dust and her mother's friend is collared for the crime...
Josie's been assigned to sniff around Uncle Bob's Doggy Day Camp, one of St. Louis's hottest pet spas. It doesn't take her long to dig up dirt on the camp's top dog, "Uncle" Bob Manning himself. Employee Frank Hyzy-Josie's mom's new boyfriend-reveals Bob should be in the doghouse for his cruel treatment of the canine customers. But before Josie can write Bob up, someone puts him down...and Frank is the cops' prime suspect.
While Frank definitely had a bone to pick with the animal abuser, Josie doesn't believe he murdered Bob. So she must doggedly pursue the investigation on her own and hope she can cage the real killer before they fetch another victim.
Josie's been assigned to sniff around Uncle Bob's Doggy Day Camp, one of St. Louis's hottest pet spas. It doesn't take her long to dig up dirt on the camp's top dog, "Uncle" Bob Manning himself. Employee Frank Hyzy-Josie's mom's new boyfriend-reveals Bob should be in the doghouse for his cruel treatment of the canine customers. But before Josie can write Bob up, someone puts him down...and Frank is the cops' prime suspect.
While Frank definitely had a bone to pick with the animal abuser, Josie doesn't believe he murdered Bob. So she must doggedly pursue the investigation on her own and hope she can cage the real killer before they fetch another victim.
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Elaine Viets has written 34 mysteries in four series: the bestselling Dead-End Job series with South Florida PI Helen Hawthorne, the cozy Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper mysteries, and the dark Francesca Vierling mysteries. With the Angela Richman Death Investigator series, Elaine returns to her hardboiled roots and uses her experience as a stroke survivor and her studies at the Medicolegal Death Investigators Training Course. Elaine was a director at large for the Mystery Writers of America. She's a frequent contributor to
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris and Lawrence Block. Elaine won the Anthony, Agatha and Lefty Awards.
