56. Ruff Way To Go (An Allie Babcock Mystery, 2) - Leslie O'Kane, Fawcett Mystery, February 2000, ISBN: 044900161X, 230p.
Featuring: Allie (Allida) Babcock
Synopsis:
DOG THERAPIST ALLIE BABCOCK IS BACK—
AND SHE HAS A BONE TO PICK WITH A KILLER
Allie's dog therapy practice is booming. Her divorcing neighbors Edith and Travor have hired her to choose which one should have custody of Shogun, their silky terrier. Another neighborhood pair, Cassandra and Paul, need help with a fostered Siberian husky and her pups. Everything's great until Allie finds Cassandra's bludgeoned body on Edith's deck with a bloody pawprint beside it—and Shogun long gone.
Who murdered Cassandra? Where's Shogun? What makes the old couple down the block so hostile? Hounded by the police and in the doghouse with just about everybody else, sleuthhound Allie cuts to the chase—and unleashes a close encounter with a cold-hearted killer. . . .
Comments:
Every once and a while, while reading this one, I felt like telling the heroine, "MInd your own business!" but otherwise this was another enjoyable mystery by Leslie O'Kane (who also writes under the name Leslie Caine). I'm a little sad that there is only one more book in this series.
Jo
