Melanie Travis has her hands full with her two young sons, a
part-time job, and a half dozen Poodles to her name. But
even with the busy holiday season approaching, she still has
time to sniff out a Christmastime killer…
There’s nothing lovelier than Christmas in Connecticut, but
Melanie can scarcely find a moment to enjoy the festivities.
With her youngest son approaching toddlerhood, she’s decided
to return to her old job at Howard Academy, a posh private
school attended by the children of Greenwich’s well-heeled
gentry. Balancing work, motherhood, and the hectic dog show
circuit takes some fancy footwork, especially when the
headmaster taps her to be the chairman of the school’s
Christmas Bazaar.
The Christmas Bazaar is Howard Academy’s biggest and most
important fundraiser, so Melanie feels the pressure to make
it a huge success. She even enlists her longsuffering
sister-in-law Bertie to help with the Santa Claus and Pets
Photo Booth. But everything goes awry when a prize show dog
goes missing and Santa turns up dead. The dog’s owner is one
of the school’s most perfectly pedigreed alums, and she
enlists Melanie to help find the purloined pooch. But just
as Melanie starts pawing at the truth, she digs up a
sleighful of sinister secrets that leaves everyone feeling
less than merry…
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