While preparing for the spring dog show, Melanie must investigate a murder after a talented canine portrait artist turns up dead behind her concession booth and her Aunt Peg's longtime dogsitter also disappears on the same day.
It's spring dog show season in Connecticut, and Melanie is determined to help her son lead his Standard Poodle toward a championship title. Aunt Peg even skips the judging panel to exhibit a pup of her own, standing out from the pack with a handmade leash from Jasmine Crane, a talented canine portrait artist who also crafts stunning accessories for discriminating show-goers. Then Jasmine is murdered behind the concession booth, strangled by one of her dazzling custom creations. And Amanda, Aunt Peg's longtime dog sitter and a renter on Jasmine's property, vanishes that same day. Melanie finds herself entangled in a mindboggling murder mystery-- and hot on the trail of a desperate killer. -- adapted from jacket.