Lauren Vancouver is the head honcho of HotRescues, a
practically perfect no-kill animal shelter in the San
Fernando Valley. The benefactor for the shelter is Dante
DeFrancisco who runs a multimillion dollar empire catering
to animals. Dante's latest product for HotPets is a line
of faux jeweled dog collars and he is running an advertising
blitz featuring them on Teacup breeds. The collars haven't
been put on the market yet, but there is a run on small dog
breeds at the rescue center due to the cuteness of the small
dogs wearing the HOTPETS bling collar.
Lauren has been notified that a raid on a puppy mill in
Missouri has rescued dozens of small puppies, and the
shelters in that area aren't equipped to take care of them.
Lauren contacts the director of the public shelter issuing
the SOS, and offers to take as many puppies as they can send
her. The pups will be ferried by Airborne Adoptions, a
generous organization of shelter volunteers who transport
animals in relay teams until the last point of the drop off
-- in this instance Las Vegas. Tom and Naya Fayler, a
HotRescue volunteer couple will pick up the adoptees in
their private plane, and bring the puppies from there.
When the Fayler's arrive to pick up their twelve puppies,
Teresa Kantrim, a really unpleasant woman, insists on
escorting the animals all the way to California. Teresa
had hoped to start her own shelter with the puppy mill
rescues, but didn't have the resources needed and is very
bitter. She keeps making veiled remarks about the honesty
of the "LaLa Land" personnel, and at a party given by Lauren
at the HotRescue facilities to introduce the puppies to
their new world, Teresa is murdered. Because of the
hostile attitude Teresa displayed toward the Fayler's, Tom
and Naya are the prime murder suspects. Lauren does not
want to get involved in finding the killer, but we all know
that she will.
Linda O. Johnston is such a wonderful author and an
inspiring advocate of pet adoption. Every time this
reviewer finishes one of Ms. Johnston's clever and
delightful cozy mysteries, I want to go get me some more
"fur babies". TEACUP TURBULANCE is an exceedingly fine
mystery with some wicked good story lines. The beautiful
adult relationships between the excellently drawn characters
is a joy to read, and like all of Ms. Johnston's books can
be read and appreciated by readers of all ages. This
reviewer is awarding TEACUP TURBULANCE the prized blue
ribbon and the enviable best of genre accolade.
Los Angeles animal shelter manager Lauren
Vancouver has a soft spot for animals in need—and a keen eye
for crime. . .
Thanks to a savvy ad campaign
featuring teacup pups sporting HotPets Bling—a new line of
faux jewelry dog collars—small dog adoptions have
skyrocketed across the city. So when Lauren discovers a
shelter in the Midwest with more toy dogs than it can
handle, she arranges a private plane to swoop in and fly the
pups back to LA.
But Lauren didn’t count on
rescue worker Teresa Kantrim coming along for the ride.
Teresa has cared for the dogs since they were found and
doesn’t trust anyone from La-La Land to take over the job.
Her biting comments clearly haven’t earned Teresa any new
friends, but when she turns up murdered, it’s time for
Lauren to dig into Teresa’s past and find out who wanted her
put down.
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