Summer means two things to Melanie Travis: a break from
her teaching duties at Connecticut’s elite Howard Academy
and a chance to plan the perfect wedding to her fiancé,
Sam. She certainly doesn’t need the unwelcome arrival of a
dinner invitation “peace offering” from Sam’s ex-wife,
Sheila Vaughn. And dinner proves to be only the beginning
of her problems. Sheila’s new man turns out to be Brian
Endicott, an old buddy-turned-enemy of Sam’s. To make
matters worse, Sheila announces her temporary stay in town
is now permanent: she’s accepted a job as co-publisher of
Woof!, a new gossip rag for the dog show world. But before
the first issue is even out, a hotter story breaks when
Sheila is found dead, strangled with a leather dog leash.
As far as Melanie’s concerned, the woman should have been
on a leash long ago. And it seems she isn’t alone in her
dislike of Sheila. Some of Woof!’s salacious stories
threatened to expose the dirty paws of quite a few
important exhibitors, and someone on Sheila’s staff may
have found her high-handed attitude worth silencing. Then
there’s the question of the life insurance policy Brian
took out only days before Sheila’s death.
Even more troubling to Melanie is her faltering
relationship with Sam, who’s hiding secrets—secrets that
put him more deeply under Sheila’s spell in death than in
life. Now, it will take the instincts of a bloodhound to
sniff out a killer who’s bent on putting an end to
Melanie’s amateur sleuthing...
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