Dog Thriller

It started with the wolves. Then it spread to teh dogs. They acquired a new level of intelligence. But they retained their animal instinct. The desire to hunt and to kill. Their targets were human beings. They worked in packs and no one was safe. Read how a small band of survivors worked together to stay alive! Excerpt from Chapter One: Owen Grigsby was about to raise his rifle. The black bear was across the snow centered in front of a stand of trees. Like a hunting postcard. He was moving slow, that delicious and deliberate intention of using a weapon to kill. Until the cub meandered into ...

Detective Michael Gideon is used to being handed L.A.'s oddest cases, but his newest one assigned itself. When Gideon's K-9 partner, Sirius, rescues a lost dog from a pack of coyotes, the duo tries to return her home - only to discover her owner is missing. Heather Moreland has clearly disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and the more Gideon digs into her past, the more he's convinced of her abduction.

She hardly has time to pay much attention to her Aunt Peg's new protg, Nick Walden, a self-proclaimed "dog whisperer" with an uncanny gift for decoding dog-speak. The well-heeled dog owners of Fairfield County are lapping up his alleged talents, anxious to discover exactly what their pampered pets are thinking--that is until the pooches start spilling their secrets.When Nick is discovered dead in his home, his sister Claire enlists Melanie to help track down the killer.

Millie was excited that her dogs, Rosie and Daisy had been invited to a birthday party for a little wire-haired terrier named, Jillie. This was Millie’s chance to get to know the neighbors within her community. They’d been avoiding her ever since the body-in-the-bushes incident. It was as if the community believed she brought chaos to the complex, which Millie felt was ridiculous. She was anxious to prove them wrong. Trouble and mayhem did not follow her around, or did it?

Tending bar at the ancient saloon on old Route 66 seems like the perfect way to sort things out.

At least, that was the plan. But then the letters started arriving. Funny, rambling confessions of love from an unknown admirer, postmarked from every corner of the world. A Polaroid photo in each letter reveals a tantalizing glimpse of their sender, but never his true identity. And always the same strange sign off - Don't order dog. Jeri can't help but be intrigued.

Despite the sweltering summer, Maddie's problems keep snowballing. A freak accident sends her K-9 search and rescue team racing to locate the victim, but a gruesome discovery makes her question everything . . . and everyone around her. Her partner, Sheriff Oliver Desjardins, is keeping secrets. Her flirtatious veterinarian friend is spending a suspicious amount of time with an enticing widow. A loathsome new deputy threatens her. And Maddie must work with wild and extraordinary Vixen.

"On the Beach" is the eighteenth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. How can a simple Caribbean vacation turn into an international incident? With Chloe Boston on the case anything can happen, that's how. Come along for the ride of a lifetime as Chloe tracks smugglers, evades men in Panama hats, meets a real secret agent-- only nobody knows for who's side-- and thwarts a devious plan in "On the Beach". Part cozy mystery, part international thriller; call it a cozy international thriller. The mystery begins in the second chapter and isn't resolved until the very end. Every chapter ...

June wedding bells are ringing! Cameron Cripps Hayman is the matron of honor, and her five furry good boys are all ushers, so what could go wrong? The day before the wedding, the new pastor is found hanging from the choir loft. It's ruled a suicide by the police, but Cam and her Action Agency suspect foul play. Cam's police-officer husband warns her to not stir up trouble where none exists, but when the pastor's home is ransacked, it's clear to Cam that she was murdered.

When Judge Lundstrom is murdered in her office with her very own gavel leaving her little Pekingese behind, Cam and her crew set out to solve the case. But with Canal Days keeping her team busy, and a falling out between her last two Action Agency members, Cam finds herself searching for a new partner in crime. Josie Jensen, a mobile vet in town for the weekend, fits the bill. Between Josie's keen intuition and her knowledge of the shady bird conservation group that seems to be running the county election for judge, the two of them set out to catch the killer before he flies the coop!

Carjacked and snatched by escaped mass murderer Terrence Hingle, timid diner waitress Tilly Mulvehill becomes the meat in a maniac sandwich when she and her kidnapper encounter the deranged Ritter twins, Dwayne and Dwight. As Tilly fights for her life, she soon discovers that sometimes the only choice you have is to do or die...to Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet. This pulpy Southern Gothic thriller takes no prisoners as it roars towards its gruesome conclusion.

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. But the case becomes more complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack. When local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to help. He's the only man Cafferty will open up to, and together the two old adversaries might just stand a chance of saving Cafferty's skin.

Bulldog's back! This time, there is a plot to foment a revolution in England, a plot that has left the Police baffled and the nation at the mercy of a master criminal. A disguised clergyman, a beautiful sidekick, an arcane poison, car chases and abductions all fail to see off Hugh Drummond and his gang of ex-Army friends. But when the plotters capture Drummond's wife, the game is up. Isn't it?

What If There's a Pattern to the Madness? The Andromeda Strain meets Chinatown in this thrilling patchwork story. More and more people are reported being obsessed with unusual tasks and tested positive for rabies. But when an investigator finds a pattern to the madness and tries to tell people, will anyone listen? Do you want to know what’s next for the inexperienced investigator? Do you wanna meet the crazies? Then read this thrilling patchwork of the weirdest bio-scare ever encountered. From ScifiSelect: "Makes you want to go looking for clues on your own." From Seth: "The story... got ...

Peggy was a great friend to Steve when they were teens. Can he help her now as she faces the death penalty? As teens, semi-reformed hacker Steve Levitan admired his friend Peggy because of the way she fought back from a difficult childhood to travel to France and aspire to a college degree and a career as a lawyer.

K9 specialist JW North is an expert at sniffing out criminals. Now, as a U.S. Marshall and member of the Serial Criminal Task Force, he’s about to face his most dangerous and disturbing case yet. Together with his “big dog” Ares and his new partner Ben Kellum, North is on the trail of the Truck Stop Killer, a vicious serial killer who has left a swath of murdered prostitutes across the United States.

I’m Dr. Kallie Collins, a veterinarian who can communicate with animals. No, it’s not as crazy as it sounds. Yes, it has landed me smack dab in the middle of a murder investigation. It all starts with a bone. A dog digs up the bone. A detective wants the bone. The dog wants to keep the bone. That’s where I come in.

The little canal town is known for its grist mill, antique shops, and bed and breakfasts, not for hosting a parade of noisy motorcycles. Cameron Cripps Hayman's neighbors are up in arms about the Night Hounds Motorcycle Club and even start a petition to get the mayor to ban the new establishment. But the mayor says he doesn't have the power to kick a business owner out, and there's nothing in the town statutes against opening a bar.

This bundle contains audiobooks five through seven in the Lia Anderson Dog Park Mysteries series, written by C. A. Newsome.

A child walks away with a stranger. Father Terry Lester is under suspicion. Laura O’Brien Robbins’ psychic abilities are scattered as she tries to find the boy and clear her friend. She is joined by her husband, Greye, and a skeptical Los Angeles detective in her search. Two weeks pass and she is no closer to finding the child. Laura is convinced she knows who the kidnapper is, but how does she prove it? Will a helpful ghost provide information? Is Laura willing to put herself in danger to discovery where the boy is hidden? Will she find the boy and clear the priest’s name in time to ...

Bulldogs, Boxers, and body parts were the last thing Lola expected on her morning walk. A heartwarming and hilarious cozy mystery set in a quaint British village with a talking French Bulldog. Lola is settling into the sleepy British village with Sassy, her crime-fighting French Bulldog. When Tony Munch’s boxer dog comes running up with a foot in its mouth they know a murder mystery is unfolding. Now, a friend is in trouble. The Russian crime family will not take kindly to the loss of one of their own. Even the police are blaming it on Tony and the evidence is mounting up against him.