A Dog's Life Sentence

She came to Maine to sell a dog rescue. She did not come to run one, and she certainly did not come to be a suspect.

Marlowe "Lo" Pettifer inherits eleven acres of headland, twelve dogs, a leaking roof and no money from a great aunt she met twice in her life. There is a developer with a chequebook who has wanted that land for twenty two years, and Lo has already decided to take his money and go home.

Then she finds him dead in her exercise yard.

The town of Gull Cove does its arithmetic and comes up with her name. A woman from away turns up on a Monday, and a man who wanted her land is dead on a Thursday. That is not thinking. That is arithmetic, and it has no manners.

The only witness is Biscuit, a grey muzzled shepherd mix who washed out of a scent detection programme for being too soft with strangers, and who has not come out of his run since the day the old woman died. He knows something. He has been trying to say so since the morning Lo arrived, and nobody in this county speaks his language.

To keep her freedom, and eleven dogs that nobody else wants, Lo has to learn a small town's secrets faster than it can make up its mind about her.

A warm, funny, dog-filled mystery set on the coast of Maine. Absolutely no harm ever comes to the dog.

A Dog's Life Sentence is the first Gull Cove Rescue Mystery. Perfect for readers who like their murders cosy, their small towns nosy, and their dogs firmly at the centre of the story.