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Darlene's list on the best mysteries with sleuths with canine companions
There are 10 books in the The Pampered Pets Series series. The newest book is The Dogfather which came out in 2018.
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Get Fluffy
Get Fluffy
Disgraced Texas beauty queen Melinda (Mel) Langston owns Laguna Beach's Bow Wow Boutique. Mona Michaels, Mel's most despised client, owns a star dog, Fluffy, who is worth millions. When Mona is found whacked in the head with Fluffy's daytime Emmy, everyone wants Fluffy. But someone won,t stop at murder to…
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Kitty Kitty Bang Bang
Caro Lamont—pet therapist—and her cousin Melinda Langston—owner of The Bow Wow Boutique—pamper the kitties and pooches of Laguna Beach’s elites. Unfortunately, their human clients keep turning up dead.
“We were at an art exhibition at The Montage,” I told the detective, “and Kitty asked me to take her cats home…
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Yip/Tuck
One of Laguna Beach’s best-known plastic surgeons may need a new leash on life. Unless he’s just taking a very long nap on the bench outside Melinda Langston’s Bow Wow Boutique . . .
Dr. O’Doggle continued to give us the silent treatment. Fluffy eyed him intently. I studied him…
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Fifty Shades of Greyhound
“Fifty Shades of Greyhound gives ‘roll over and play dead’ a whole new meaning!”
—Ethel Merman & Ella Fitzgerald, canine companions to award-winning author, Holly Jacobs
It was a killer party.
Caro Lamont, Laguna Beach’s favorite pet therapist, is thrilled to support the elite fundraising gala for Greys Matter, a…
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The Girl with the Dachshund Tattoo
She has to stay low. Ears to the ground. Danger’s nipping at her heels.
Mel’s tracking a killer in the world of racing dachshunds.
Wiener takes all at the Laguna Beach Dachshund Dash. Melinda Langston, owner of Bow Wow Boutique, and her quirky assistant, Betty Foxx, are on hand to…
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Downton Tabby
Anyone for tea and crumpets . . . and murder?
Caro Lamont, amateur sleuth and well-respected animal therapist to Laguna Beach’s pampered pets, works with office mate and tech wizard, Graham Cash, whose beloved Scottish Fold tabby cat, Toria, is purported to have anger management issues. But when Caro drops…
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Raiders of the Lost Bark
Mel’s enemy may be barking up the wrong tree . . .
But someone is about to become a killer.
Melinda Langston, amateur sleuth and Bow Wow Boutique owner, finds herself “Glamping Under the Stars” with a blackmailer, Orange County’s hottest new gourmet pet chef, Addison Rae. But before Mel…
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Barking With the Stars
“Such a cute series!” — Polished Nails and Puppy Dog Tales blog
Lights! Camera! Murder!
A star-studded fundraiser to help provide service dogs for wounded warriors sets tongues wagging . . . about Caro Lamont, pet therapist to the stars.
Caro’s ex-husband Geoffrey is spreading rumors about her competence and…
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The Dogfather
“Sympathetic and delightful heroines.” —King’s River Life Magazine
Who knew the world of designer purses could be such a dog-eat-dog business?
When a local, designer handbags store owner is found dead, the police first believe it’s an unfortunate accident. But the evidence doesn’t lie. Before you can say "wiseguy," Bow…