Dog Fiction Mystery

Three lonely neighbors. Four loyal dogs. One big mystery. What do a retired pharmacist, a quirky church choir director, and a Gen Z gamer have in common? Nothing much—until a cheesy murder mystery party at their apartment complex ends in an actual murder. Drawn together by tragedy, Priya Visser, Gloria Williams, and Ryan Hsia form an unlikely team. As they follow a trail of long-buried secrets, the newfound sleuths must rely on each other and their dogs—a stately pug, two cheeky dachshunds, and an excitable lab puppy—to sniff out a killer hiding in plain sight.

Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner - Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company - lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.

What are cursed artifacts, a talking cat, and a dead body doing in the sweet little town of Citrus Grove? That’s what spirited shopkeeper Rebecca Cuthbert wants to find out, and she had better do it fast because she’s the prime suspect in the murder of the town’s shadiest antiquities dealer. It’s a troubling start to her reunion with her long-lost grandfather and a far cry from the Southern California vacation she was expecting. So far, nothing in Citrus Grove is quite what it seems. Not her grandfather, who suspiciously disappears at the strangest times, not his curious antique ...

Autumn Clarke is getting her life back to normal with the help of her extraordinary shih tzu, Chrissy, when the death of a local philanthropist reveals the man’s dark family secrets, as well as unexpected ties to Autumn. When Chrissy discovers a dog-eared diary in the dead man’s family home, Autumn discovers that things in the Clarke family are not quite as they seem.

Barb Stitch Cozy Mystery Box Set (Books 1–5) One small town. Endless secrets. Librarian-sleuth Barbara Stitch and her golden retriever, Suga, untangle murders and mysteries in the cozy mountain town of Broad Hollow, Wyoming. Friendship, curiosity, and courage uncover the truth one clue at a time. Murder by Arrangement When a feared flower judge is found dead inside a funeral display, Barbara must clear her friend the florist and dig through tangled gossip, cursed herbs, and blooming lies before she becomes the next arrangement. Murder at the Class Reunion A reunion turns deadly when a ...

When autistic dog rehabilitator Maddie "Mad Girl" Whitney discovers a corpse on her neighbor's ranch, she impulsively tries to drum up business by claiming that psychic abilities led her to the victim . . . with devastating consequences. Maddie's forced to start a K-9 Search and Rescue team with her ex-girlfriend's twin, a hostile sheriff, or risk losing her beloved former military dog. She reluctantly begins reaching out to others . . . and finds friendship and kindness in the unlikeliest of places.

Ivy has always wondered how sheepdog Keats became such an incredible companion and sleuth. When her beloved dog’s breeder tracks them down, she finally gets the chance to find out.

New to the historic town of Metamora, Indiana, Cameron Cripps-Hayman is looking to make friends with her neighbors. What she isn't looking for is one of their bodies floating in the canal. When she and her estranged husband, the town sheriff, are both named suspects for the murder, Cameron takes solving the crime into her own hands, teaming up with her eccentric coworkers who dub themselves The Metamora Action Agency.

It's the day of the Christchurch Dog Show. The whole town is aquiver with excitement. The ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are hoping to make lots of new furry friends. After a very dramatic Best Biscuit Catcher competition, Fiona, Sue, and Daisy from the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop come across a shocking scene. The dog show's vet is performing CPR on a woman. The ladies rush over, but it's too late. Back at the shop, the ladies learn that the poor woman was murdered. Someone injected Sylvia Steadman with something very nasty indeed.

A Valentine’s wedding. A poisoned toast. A dead groom who planned to be the killer. When Rodger Holloway dies during his rehearsal dinner at the Bradford Inn, Emma Bradford is pulled into another dangerous mystery. What she discovers is shocking. Rodger was a con artist who planned to murder his bride after the wedding and frame the Inn for another tragic death. But someone beat him to it. As Emma follows the trail of secrets, she realizes the real target was never the groom. It was the bride. And the killer is still dangerously close. With greed disguised as romance and manipulation ...

She came to the mountains to escape death. It followed her. Former Minneapolis paramedic Gemma Hartley thought she'd left tragedy behind when she fled to the remote mountain town of Elk Creek, Colorado. With her search-and-rescue dog Kira by her side, she's built a quiet life finding lost hikers and learning to breathe again. Then a routine search for a missing woman leads Gemma and Kira to a body and evidence of murder. The deeper she digs, the darker the secrets become. Someone in this picture-perfect town has been hiding the truth about what happened twenty-five years ago, when another ...

In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters.

This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

In Willow Creek, history isn’t just preserved—it’s protected… sometimes fatally. When respected historian Harold Whitcomb dies after a fall near the town’s historic root cellar, most call it a tragic accident. But Cynthia Harper—former NYC strategist turned small-town B&B owner—has learned that Willow Creek’s calm exterior often hides careful rearrangements. With her golden retriever Duke sniffing out tension as reliably as crumbs, Cynthia starts asking inconvenient questions about missing archive pages and a trust tied to valuable land. The town’s polished Historical ...

A collection of psychological thriller novels featuring a woman with a dangerous past, a moral code she can't ignore, and a talent for uncovering what others want hidden. These are psychological thrillers that build. Tension simmers. Danger creeps. Secrets unravel minute by minute.

It’s all hands on deck when a dead body is found near the small town of Briar Creek in this Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Murder Plot. Just off the shores of the coastal Connecticut town of Briar Creek are two small islands, which...

Tessa and Charlie have been best friends since childhood. Now Tess is a famous travel writer who documents her adventures on social media while Charlie rarely leaves the safety of her home, living in fear after narrowly escaping a vicious attack years earlier. But despite their different lives, their bond of friendship remains unbreakable...even in death.

*****OUTRAGEOUS DEAL WOW***** "MY NEW FAVORITE SERIES! Can't stop reading and don't want to!" ~Goodreads Sophie just wants to even the score for those who need justice. Binge-read this award-winning series of NINE books bundled into a limited-time box set for maximum reading pleasure! You can't read just one! WIRED IN: The tale of Sophie's development of a cutting-edge rogue computer program, DAVID, and her discovery of a cyber vigilante whom she may, or may not, be able to bring to justice. WIRED ROGUE: An untouchable cult deep in the jungle has a leader who might be a stone-cold wife ...

🧵 Murder, Mayhem, and a Castle Full of Secrets—This Retreat Could Be Their Last Quilt shop owner Alex Allin expected a tranquil escape at Blair Castle’s Scottish quilting retreat—until the famed but foul-tempered instructor is found dead inside the locked sewing salon. No way in. No way out. Someone came armed—with more than just scissors. The clues? A centuries-old quilt, a cryptic symbol, a missing heirloom—and the haunting tale of Moira MacNairn, an accused witch whose final secrets are stitched into the castle walls themselves. Trapped by a storm, Alex leans on her loyal ...

Lilly may be losing a husband, but she's gaining a toy poodle. That could be seen as a win-win, since her new adopted pooch, Aggie (named after Agatha Christie), is cute and adorable and Lilly's dirty dog of a spouse is cheating on her with a blonde bimbo - except for one problem: Albert Echosby's just been murdered, and Lilly is the number-one suspect.