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A CATERED DOGGIE WEDDING by Isis Crawford

A CATERED DOGGIE WEDDING

by Isis Crawford

Pub Date: June 28th, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-49673-496-9
Publisher: Kensington

Sisters Libby and Bernie Simmons find catering a wedding for dogs a walk in the park until the threats arrive.

The sisters, who own A Little Taste of Heaven, have agreed to make doggie delights for two golden retrievers belonging to Jennie, the girlfriend of their employee Googie. Jennie, who’s opening a doggie day care called Woof Woof, thinks holding the ceremony there will provide great publicity. Inevitably, there’s push back from financially distressed Renee, who owns the high-end dress shop next door. Soon someone slashes all four tires of the sisters’ van and sends threatening messages to the people providing flowers for the wedding and taking photos. Even after the sisters’ dad, former police officer Sean Simmons, points out that they have no proof that Renee did the deed, they still confront her and her boyfriend, Ivan. Googie suspects Jennie’s ex-boyfriend Liam Nelson, who denies any involvement—after all, he’s even been willing to help Tom Bannon, the carpenter working on the day care center. The police think Jennie’s drunk when she reports finding Tom dead in his car, especially when they can’t find it in the place where she said it was. When his body is finally discovered, though, Jennie’s the prime suspect. Bolstered by their long record of crime-solving, the sisters set out to find the killer.

A plethora of suspects and tangled subplots lead to mass confusion.