Between teaching, mothering, and prepping her Poodle for
the next show, Melanie Travis barely has time to pencil in
some Christmas festivities. Especially once she finds
herself making a list of suspects—and checking it twice—
when murder comes home for the holidays…
This year, all Melanie wants for Christmas is a dull
moment—but she's not going to get it. Between her eight-
year-old son, Davey, her teaching job, and showing her
soon-to-be champion Standard Poodle puppy, Eve, there just
aren't enough hours in the day. Davey’s in the Christmas
play and the holidays are in full swing, so she'd like to
make merry...or at least get around to decorating the
tree! It would also be nice to spend a little time with
her fiancé, Sam.
But when Davey's usual bus driver, Henry Pruitt,
disappears and is replaced by a surly, pierced, gum-
chewing twentysomething, Melanie is concerned. The
elderly, amiable Henry was a friend to all in the
neighborhood, so she decides to check on him...only to
find that he died two days ago, under suspicious
circumstances.
As if that weren't bad enough, Henry's two Golden
Retrievers, Pepper and Remington, are now bereft of both
master and home. Naturally, Melanie can't just abandon
them. So she brings them to her Aunt Peg, the most
stubborn woman on the planet, who’s now determined to find
out the truth about Henry's death, no matter what it
takes.
It turns out that Henry wasn't always a bus driver—before
he retired, he had another career as a high-powered
executive at an exclusive brokerage firm. He was also
quite the ladies' man. Could one of his loves have turned
lethal? Soon, the indomitable Aunt Peg has Melanie leashed
to another murder investigation. And unless she sniffs out
this Scrooge of a killer fast, a lump of coal in her
stocking might not be the worst thing Melanie gets this
Christmas…
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