When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn't expect to find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has a good nose that leads her right to the remains of a beautiful young woman. Despite her best instincts, Pru can't avoid getting involved. The young woman seems to have been mauled by a wild cat, but Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshire woods for years. And while Wallis, Pru's curmudgeonly tabby, seems fixated on the idea of a killer cat, Spot has been sending strange signals to Pru's own heightened senses, suggesting that the violent death was something more than a tragic accident. As motives multiply, a cougar of a different sort sets her eyes on Pru's sometime lover, and another woman disappears. With panther panic growing, Pru may have to put aside her own issues—and her own ideas of domesticity—to solve a savage mystery.
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“At the start of Simon’s engaging fourth mystery featuring animal behaviorist Pru Marlowe,
Pru and Spot, a service dog she’s training for a wealthy man who is
going blind, discover the badly mauled body of a young woman while
walking in the woods outside the Berkshire town of Beauville…Pru, whose psychic powers allow her to
understand animals’ thoughts, receives conflicting and confusing
suggestions from Spot, as well as from her tabby, Wallis. In the end,
Pru’s sleuthing instincts guide her to a satisfying resolution of the
crime.”
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Publishers Weekly