The Spotted Dog

By Kerry Greenwood

Another mystery book from Kerry Greenwood, internationally bestselling author of the Phryne Fisher mysteries! Betrayal is a bitter pill to swallow...

Rising at four o'clock every morning isn't Corinna Chapman's favorite part of running her Australian bakery, Earthly Delights, and the glowing light of dawn feels even harsher when a man collapses in her shop. When the man, a military veteran, comes around and reveals that his beloved ex-service dog is missing, Corinna and her longtime companion, Daniel, feel compelled to help. It soon becomes clear, though, that they have gotten involved in something much bigger and more complicated than they had bargained for... especially when threatening notes begin to appear in Corinna's apartment. And with recreational drugs rising in popularity, the sleuths suspect that a dangerous smuggling ring might be behind everything.

Along with searching for the soldier's dog, dodging suspicious neighbors, and putting a stop to a string of local burglaries, Corinna has to keep her bakery running! It'll take everything she's got to crack the case and make sure delicious breads, muffins, and treats are still fresh and ready for her eager customers. Can she take the heat?

Part culinary cozy mystery, part small town mystery, and full of twists and turns, this latest addition to the Corinna Chapman Mysteries has it all!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Sep 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781464211201

Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has degrees in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written three series, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D’Arcy, is an award-winning children’s writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues which was a great success. Kerry has written twenty books in this series with no sign yet of Miss Fisher hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Kerry says that as long as people want to read them, she can keep writing them. In 2003 Kerry won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Association.

Reviews for The Spotted Dog

[lhaines56 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Very weird

[jetangen4571 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

verbal-humor, situational-humor, law-enforcement, women-sleuths, amateur-sleuth, Australia, SCA, private-investigators, recipes ***** Come to the Earthly Delights bakery in Australia in a building named Insula where the baker, Corinna, lives upstairs with her ex Mossad/private investigator lover in one of the apartments and works with her apprentice who is an ex-heroin addict who likes to be a midshipman from Master and Commander or Hornblower. The other residents of the building are equally colorful, including the Mouse Police, and naming the roof garden the Parsley Forest. Throw in a lot of Shakespeare quotes, other local residents including Sister Mary, an frustrated police lieutenant, a real mystery regarding who on earth would kidnap a retired Scottish Army dog from a PTSD sufferer lately from Afghanistan, and you have the very best sort of read! It's a laugh riot all the way through! I requested and received a free ebook copy from Poisoned Pen Press via NetGalley. Thank you!

[sarahebear · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The "Spotted Dog" follows the case of a missing dog, a former service dog and loyal companion of an ex-army officer. The pair must follow the clues to determine who would kidnap the furry friend, and why, and work out how to reunite him with his owner. I'm in two minds about "The Spotted Dog", the seventh in Kerry Greenwood's Corina Chapman series. I really enjoy the easy to read story, and love some of the long standing characters (the young apprentice baker, Jason, for example), but find something a little grating about Corina and her partner Daniel. Overall it's a solid cosy mystery, with some fun and funny moments. Chapman captures the modern Melbourne city well.

[delphimo_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

What a wonderful way to spend the stay-at-home Memorial Day weekend than reading mysteries. My first novel, The Spotted Dog, by Kerry Greenwood jumps into various topics: religion, espionage, morals, war, animals, and relationships. Corinna Chapman and her cat Horatio live in a unique building named Insula in Melbourne, Australia, where Corinna owns and operates Earthly Delights, a bakery. Corinna’s lover/boyfriend, Daniel, an ex-Israeli soldier, leaps back and forth in the story. The dog, Geordie, an Afghanistan trained sniffer, has been kidnapped from his handler, Alasdair. The story skips to too many diversions and characters with an over abundance of religion and religious wars. The language and description excelled, but too many details bogged the story.