Books

Dog Lovers (Series)

This series includes 18 books.


  1. Book 1

    A New Leash on Death

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    At dog obedience school, fighting is common-especially between owners. But columnist Holly Winter is shocked when a training session ends in murder-and she finds some bone-chilling clues... "The dog lover's answer to...The Cat Who series." ( Rocky Mountain News )

  2. Book 5

    Gone to the Dogs (Dog Lover's Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    When a local vet and a pampered pet disappear, Holly Winter and her veterinarian lover Steve Delaney go to the exclusive Cambridge Dog Training Club to investigate. Reprint.

  3. Book 6

    Bloodlines (Dog Lover's Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    When the proprietor of Puppy Luv, a pet store fronting for black market dog breeders, is murdered, Holly Winter links the killing with the disappearance of an adorable malamute pup and is soon entering the corrupt world of dog breeding. Reprint. K.

  4. Book 7

    Ruffly Speaking (Dog Lover's Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Ruffly, a mutt who hears for the hearing-impaired, tunes into sounds no humans can hear when he and his owner move into the home of a recently deceased dog-lover--and amateur sleuth Holly Winter suspects murder. Reprint. K.

  5. Book 8

    BLACK RIBBON (Dog Lover's Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Holly Winter and her Alaskan Malamute, Rowdy, are spending a week at Waggin' Tail Camp, but Holly receives a sympathy card for the loss of her pet--is it a sick joke or is Kimi, her other Malamute, in jeopardy?

  6. Book 9

    Stud Rites

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Groomed for a comeback: sixth in the dog lover's series. After two killings at the Alaskan Malamute National Specialty Show, the one-of-a-kind murder weapon is traced to Holly Winter's ex-boyfriend--and the stakes become more personal than she ever dreamed.

  7. Book 10

    Animal Appetite

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    When a canine lover is murdered, sleuth Holly Winter discovers his double life. But who can explain the odd behavior of his family? What was his strange connection to a local legend who died centuries ago--and how can Holly muzzle the killer before he strikes again?

  8. Book 11

    The Barker Street Regulars (Dog Lover's Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Holly Winter and her two malamutes make friends with fascinating Althea Battlefield, a 90-year-old Sherlock Holmes fan. When one of Althea's relatives is murdered, and another is scammed by an animal psychic, Holly's canine sleuths fetch clues to both crimes.

  9. Book 12

    Evil Breeding (Dog Lover's Mystery)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter has just landed a plum contract to write a book on Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge's legendary pre-World War II dog shows. Holly arranges to interview one of the last living participants in those fabulously opulent and exclusive shows: canine fancier B. Robert Motherway. But there's something decidedly unsettling about the gracious old gent's imposing home with its acres of kennels. His dying wife wails piteously in an upstairs room, his servants are his sullen son and his downtrodden daughter-in-law, and his favorite German shepherd dog has an ill-bred snarl. Meanwhile, Holly's mail is laced with anonymous packages-old photographs, letters in German, and a brochure on pills for listless pooches. Nothing makes sense until a garroted body is found in a nearby cemetery. Suddenly Holly and her Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, are on a seventy-year-old trail of deception, decadence, and death. And either they unearth the skeletons or join them.

  10. Book 13

    Creature Discomforts

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    A dogged killer When Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter regains consciousness atop a cliff in Acadia National Park, she has no idea who she is. Not even the arrival of two beautiful and oddly friendly dogs, who happen to be her own Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, is enough to jar her memory. Instinct tells her that her fall was no accident and she'd best keep her amnesia a secret. Yet when she follows the clues back to the guest house of Gabrielle Beamon, a charming woman surrounded by an eccentric band of preservationists, all she finds is more questions. What was a dead man, who reportedly hated exercise and the outdoors, doing hiking in the first place? Why did Holly have a file filled with information on arsenic? And why does the charismatic founder of the Pine tree Foundation seem so hauntingly familiar? As Holly gets closer to the truth, not even her faithful dogs may be able to save her from a human who is ruthless to the bone.

  11. Book 14

    The Wicked Flea (Dog Lover's Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    The wait is over, as Holly uncovers the murder of a particularly vicious dog owner.

  12. Book 15

    The Dogfather (Prime Crime Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Holly Winter's got a hot new gig: dog trainer to the Mob. Big Boss Enzio Guarini has recruited her to train his new pup. But when Guarini's right-hand man is shot dead, Holly's caught between a violent vendetta and a family well-trained in murder.

  13. Book 16

    Bride and Groom (Dog Lover's Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Dog trainer Holly Winter is set to marry veterinarian Steve Delaney, but the wedding plans have been spoiled by murder--and Holly's taking it personally. The victims have been female dog lovers, and since Holly fits the profile, "till death do us part" isn't just an upcoming vow--it's a dire warning.

  14. Book 17

    Gaits of Heaven (Holly Winter Mysteries)

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Dog lovers and mystery fans await this new novel from the award-winning author of Bride and Groom . Praised for its eccentric and quirky characters Susan Conant's hilarious series now finds dedicated dog trainer Holly Winter following the tracks of an odd breed of pup to an even stranger breed of human- when she's enlisted to rein in a dysfunctional New Age couple's over-spirited Aussie huskapoo. But when the wife succumbs to an accidental overdose of mixed meds, Holly becomes embroiled in the family's dirty little secrets, especially when the victim's daughter convinces Holly that it was murder.

  15. Book 18

    All Shots

    by Susan Conant

    Description :

    Holly Winter the malamute trainer knows she's not the only Holly Winter living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it would be so much nicer if Holly number two weren't a dog-hating academic... and if a third woman calling herself Holly Winter didn't happen to be dead. Holly number one can attest to this unfortunate fact, having discovered the gunned-down body while searching for a missing Siberian husky. Another missing dog-this time a blue malamute- is somehow tied into this tangled web. With her husband Steve away on a camping trip and her other human housemates otherwise occupied, Holly and her prize-winning pups will have to bring the case to heel on their own-before a killer sniffs them out.


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