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Literary Wednesday — The “Bloodhound, Inc.” Series
Virginia Lanier’s Bloodhound Series is a must read for mystery fans who love dogs or dog lovers who enjoy good mystery stories. The first book in her series is Death in Bloodhound Red, published in 1995 when the author was in her mid sixties (giving us all hope that it’s never too late to accomplish [...]
Literary Wednesday — “Delilah Doolittle, Pet Detective”
Delilah Doolittle and the Purloined Pooch (Pet Detective Mystery Series) by Patricia Guiver is the first of six in a series featuring Delilah Doolittle, a British widow settled in sunny Southern California who makes her living by finding lost pets. She and her canine assistant, a doberman named Watson, have been hired to find the [...]
Literary Wednesday — “Sit, Stay, Slay”
Sit, Stay, Slay (Kendra Ballantyne, Petsitter Mysteries, No. 1) from Linda O. Johnston is the first of seven in the “Pet Sitter’s Mysteries” series. We meet the main character, Kendra Ballantyne, in a state of disgrace. She has been forced to resign from her high paid position as an high-powered Los Angeles attorney under less [...]
Literary Wednesday — “A Dog Lover’s Mystery”
Returning with our third installment of Literary Wednesday — Mysteries and Animals, I present “A Dog Lover’s Mystery” series by Susan Conant. She is a three-time recipient of the Maxwell Award for Fiction Writing given by the Dog Writers Association of America. There are 18 books in the “Dog Lover’s Mystery” series.
The series begins with [...]
Literary Wednesday — “Mrs. Murphy Mysteries”
Last week I began the Literary Wednesday series, a focus of mysteries in which the animals are central characters, with “A Cat Who…” This week we return with Rita Mae Brown’s “Mrs. Murphy Mysteries”. The series is set in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, an area rich in history, fox hunting, [...]
Literary Wednesday — “Cat Who…”
It is a cold and dreary day here. The sort of day designed for curling up with a fire, hot cocoa and a good mystery. I was scanning my bookshelves this afternoon to find the right book to go with the fire and hot cocoa, and I was struck by how many mysteries have either [...]