Gone to the Dogs

By Susan Conant

Thrown a bone—by a killer

Holly Winter’s a Dog’s Life columnist in the wrong side of thirty, a canine-loving detective sniffing our crime and corruption on the streets of Cambridge. Holly is a dog’s best friend—and murder’s worst enemy. . . . 
 
If your name is Holly Winter, Yuletide can be a real female dog. When a local vet and a pampered pet suddenly disappear, Holly scents hemlock amid the pine and mistletoe and follows the tracks of a purebred killer.
 
To get a leg up on the mystery, Holly takes her two Alaskan malamutes and hunk veterinarian Steve Delaney into the exclusive Cambridge Dog Training Club and back out onto the dangerous streets of the city. She won’t quit until she muzzles a rare breed of two-time killer because—when it comes to dognapping and sudden death—Holly has a short leash for murder. . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Feb 16, 2011
• ISBN: 9780307785466

Susan Conant

Susan Conant graduated from Radcliffe College and has a doctorate in human development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The author of twenty mystery novels and two short stories featuring Holly Winter and her Alaskan malamutes, Conant is an eight-time winner of the Dog Writers Association of America Maxwell Medallion. Conant’s dog mysteries have been legally translated into German, Swedish, Finnish, and Japanese, as well as pirated by a Russian publisher. She has published one mystery for cat lovers, Scratch the Surface; two nonfiction books; and has collaborated with her daughter, Jessica Conant-Park, on the Gourmet Girl culinary mysteries. Conant and her husband live near Boston with their Chartreux cats and their Shetland sheepdog.