A Dog Lover’s Mystery Series by Susan Conant (#1-7.9-11.13-15,17,20-21)
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Overview: I was born in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. The best friends of my childhood were pointers named Stuffy and Nonny. I had imaginary companions as well: a cat named Thirsty Melirsty Medrinkable, a family of dogs, and parents called Mommy and Daddy Suh. Thirsty and the dog family slowly faded away. The Suhs, however, perished suddenly; they ate fish guts and died. My career as a mystery writer thus began in early childhood: I invented animals, and I killed off fictional human beings.
Now, many decades later, I live just outside Boston. My husband is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Cambridge. Our daughter, Jessica, who is also my coauthor, lives in New Hampshire with her husband and their young son. My husband and I have an Alaskan malamute, Django (pronounced ‘Jango’) and two Chartreux cats, Kansas City (K.C.) and Shadow Celeste. The malamutes in my Holly Winter books are composites, but the cats in Scratch the Surface, Edith and Brigitte, are portraits of my own Chartreux.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspens
A New Leash on Death
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #1)
Holly Winter’s life is going to the dogs, but that’s just fine with her. She’s a feisty, 30-something dog-lover, and her expertise in the breeding, training, and caring for canines is just one of her inbred talents. She’s also a grand champion at tracking down criminals of the two-legged kind. When a dog owner is murdered at a training session, Holly enlists the victim’s big Malamute to find the killer.
Dead and Doggone
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #2)
A wolf roaming the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts? For Dog’s Life columnist Holly Winter, the missing wolf-dog is just one of the mysteries dogging her heels closer than even her big, beautiful malamute Rowdy does! First she discovers a pair of high-class grooming shears stuck in the body of a gossipy dog trainer. Then she picks up the scent of a scam that will chill the blood of every dog owner. But her detective work will son turn Holly into the hunted. And the hunter? The most dangerous beast of all …
A Bite of Death
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #3)
What if I died and came back to life as my own dog?
In Susan Conant’s third dog lover’s mystery, Dog’s Life columnist Holly Winter is writing a story based on that improbable premise when she’s interrupted by an urgent summons to rush to the aid of feminist psychotherapist Elaine Walsh, whose wild-acting Alaskan malamute, Kimi, has driven Elaine to take refuge on her kitchen table. Elaine inherited Kimi when a patient, Donna Zalewski, apparently committed suicide. Before long, Elaine, too, is found dead—of a fatal overdose of the same prescription drug that killed her patient.
Is a murderer targeting Kimi’s owners? Or is Kimi the intended victim? Since the orphaned Kimi is Holly’s dog now, Holly needs to find out who’s next on the killer’s hit list—and to protect herself and Kimi, she needs to find out fast!
While trying to convince her first malamute, Rowdy, to accept the tough, pushy Kimi and while persuading the uncivilized Kimi that Rowdy has rights, too, Holly now realizes that Kimi, her radical-feminist malamute, is the key witness to both murders, a canine witness whose testimony no one but Holly understands.
Paws Before Dying
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #4)
MURDER STRIKES. When Rose Engleman is found dead after a thunderstorm, lightning is blamed. But soon Holly Winter starts to think it wasn’t an act of God that killed the elderly woman. Was it an act of vengeance? Jealousy? Hatred? Greed? Accompanied by her malamutes Rowdy and Kimi — and her visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Leah — Holly tracks down the truth, and discovers that a retired kindergarten teacher can have a surprising number of enemies…. A DOG LOVER’S MYSTERY.
Bloodlines
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #5)
Normally Holly winter wouldn’t be caught dead in a place like Puppy Luv — a mall pet shop that’s no doubt an outlet for the puppy mill industry and a hotbed of forged papers, broken promises and mistreated animals. But a hot tip on a malamute pup suddenly has Holly charging to the rescue and panting to put the owner out of business. Trouble is, she’s not the only one who has a bone to pick with Diane Sweet. in a matter of hours the puppy love proprietress is gruesomely murdered. When Holly links the killing with the disappearance of another malamute — an adorable live wire named Missy — she digs up startling evidence that soon leads her into the fiercely competitive and deadly underworld of dog breeding. A place where her biggest fears are realized. And where her animal instincts are all that can save her.
Gone to the Dogs
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #6)
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.
Ruffly Speaking
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #7)
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.
Stud Rites
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #9)
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.
Animal Appetite
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #10)
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?
The Barker Street Regulars
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #11)
Susan Conant continues to surprise–this time by involving dog writer Holly Winter in a wickedly amusing tale full of dastardly deeds and delightful eccentrics.
An avid devotion to the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and an equally avid devotion to dogs, combine to draw Holly Winter and her two beloved malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, into one of Conant’s most original and entertaining mysteries to date.
Rowdy has finished his training as a therapy dog and now accompanies Holly on weekly visits to the Gateway Nursing Home, where they meet Althea Battlefield, still formidable at the age of ninety, and her two elderly, admiring cohorts, Hugh and Robert–all fanatic devotees of the Master (as they call Sherlock Holmes). When Althea’s grandnephew is murdered at the home of her younger sister, Ceci, everyone is horrified, but it’s the plight of Ceci herself–who is being victimized by an unscrupulous animal psychic–that finally unites this unlikely group in a crime-stopping spree that requires not only the finely tuned ratiocination of the Holmes admirers but the eager cooperation of an outraged Holly and the very particular talents of her willing canine accomplices.
Creature Discomforts
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #13)
A hike in the woods has memorable consequences for dog writer Holly Winter in this latest of Susan Conant’s Dog Lover’s Mysteries.
When Holly Winter awakens, battered and bruised, clinging to a boulder on the side of a cliff, she doesn’t even recognize her own beloved malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, much less remember their names–or her own. She does, however, realize they’re her dogs, and that she is–to put it mildly–a "dog person." And she vaguely remembers hearing a sinister voice from above.
Putting clues together, she discovers that she is in Acadia National Park, on Mount Desert Island, Maine, and that she’s the guest of one Gabrielle Beamon, a most attractive and charming woman, whom Holly doesn’t recognize at all. When it is discovered that there was another fall, this one fatal, at approximately the same time and close to the same place as Holly’s, she begins to fear for her own safety. In fact, she has all she can do to figure out what’s going on without giving away her own loss of memory.
The Wicked Flea
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #14)
Holly Winter’s malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, are a delightful a pair of canine companions as anyone could ask for. Less faithful is her ex-lover who left her with a bitter heart and over-priced therapy sessions. Add a bout with amnesia and trepidation over her father’s second marriage, and Holly is convinced that things can’t get worse. Until a walk in the park pits Rowdy against a vicious golden retriever whose owner is no less so. How odd that such a gentle breed could be so nasty. Not so odd for humans. And not at all surprising when the owner is found murdered .Holly has no choice but step into the fray–for she knows better than anyone that killers are a cunning and clever breed.
The Dogfather
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #15)
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.
from the back cover:
It’s an offer dog handler Holly Winter can’t refuse: train wiseguy Enzio Guarini’s new Elkhound puppy, Frey. But can she ignore the fact that Guarini’s killed so many people even the FBI’s lost count? Hardly. One day into training and Guarini’s right-hand man is shot dead. The official story is a heart attack. Holly knows better. Between jump-starting a romance on the side and teaching a Mob pup to fetch, she’s found herself in the middle of a vendetta with a family well-trained in murder. And it’s going to take more than an understanding of the animal instinct to get away without getting bitten.
Gaits of Heaven
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #17)
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.
Sire and Damn
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery #20)
Mistress of the dog lover’s mystery, Susan Conant is a seven-time winner of the Dog Writers Association of America’s coveted Maxwell Award. She has chronicled the adventures of dog writer and dog trainer Holly Winter and her Alaskan malamutes since 1990.
When Sire and Damn opens, it’s a hot August in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Holly’s unexpectedly pregnant friend Rita is about to marry the pretentious Quinn Youngman. As Rita’s and Quinn’s variously and hilariously eccentric, hostile, duplicitous, kleptomaniacal, and pistol-packing relatives gather for the wedding, deceit is ubiquitous.
Fibbing, cheating, and pilfering are one thing. Killing is another! Even a burglar deserves to live, doesn’t he? But how can Holly tell truth from lies when no one’s word is good? No human word, that is. Dogs don’t lie, especially Holly’s own bold and fearless Rowdy and psychiatric service dog Izzy, the most charming Labrador retriever ever to bound out of the pages of fiction and leap into the hearts of readers everywhere.
Two Vintage Holly Winter Stories
(A Dog Lover’s Mystery 21)
In 1991, Dog World magazine invited Susan Conant to contribute two mystery stories narrated by beloved dog maven Holly Winter. “Murder in Ring 19” appeared in Dog World in November 1991; “Murder Well-groomed” in July 1992. These two vintage short stories appear here.
About the Author
“The mistress of the dog lover’s mystery” (Dog Fancy), Susan Conant is a seven-time winner of the Dog Writers Association of America’s Maxwell award . She is the author of eighteen mystery novels featuring Holly Winter and her Alaskan malamutes; and one mystery for cat lovers, Scratch the Surface. Susan and her daughter, Jessica Conant-Park, are the authors of the Gourmet Girl mystery series. Susan lives near Boston with her husband, two Chartreux cats, and the world’s most perfect dog, the ancient and incomparable Mandy.
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