Susan Conant

Canine-loving detective Holly Winter is a columnist for Dog’s Life magazine. She thinks a week at Waggin’ Tail, a camp for canines in the scenic Maine woods, will be a vacation in pet heaven. So does Rowdy, her champion malamute—especially when there are pooches galore: mixed breeds, Pekes, cairn terriers, Labradors, shelties, and a gorgeous mastiff pup. But upon Holly’s arrival at the camp, things swiftly go to the dogs. Instead of the advertised...

Holly Winter and her malamute Rowdy, a trained therapy dog, begin volunteering at a local nursing home where they meet Althea Battlefield, a Sherlock Holmes fanatic who enlists the help of Holly, Rowdy, and a host of elderly friends in the investigation of who killed her nephew.

While searching for a missing Siberian husky, Cambridge, Massachusetts, malamute trainer Holly Winter stumbles upon the corpse of a woman calling herself Holly Winter and investigates a crime that could be linked to the town's third Holly Winter, a dog-hating academic.

Reeling from her breakup with her boyfriend Josh, Chloe Carter works as an assistant cookbook writer in Boston, until the mysterious death of one of Josh's friends brings him back into her life.

Chloe Carter’s Internet date commits the ultimate gastronomic faux pas: He dies before dessert
Ever in search of the perfect meal—and the perfect man—twenty-something grad student and food connoisseur Chloe Carter draws the line at speed dating. But when the Massachusetts native reluctantly signs up for Back Bay Dates, she’s soon communicating with a guy after her own heart. According to his online bio, DinnerDude...

As her chef boyfriend, Josh, competes to star in a new TV series by ambushing unsuspecting grocery shoppers and preparing them gourmet dinners, Chloe Carter turns sleuth when one shopper unexpectedly drops dead.

Holly Winter becomes caught up in the middle of the mob's latest vendetta when she takes a job training a new puppy belonging to a wiseguy with a nasty reputation on both sides of the law.