Holly Winter’s life is going to the dogs, but that’s just fine with her. A feisty, thirtysomething dog-lover, she is a grand champion at tracking down criminals—the two-legged kind. At dog obedience trials, fighting is common— especially between owners. But Dog’s Life columnist Holly Winter is shocked when a mere training session ends in murder. Between sit, heel, and the final long down, a retired doctor takes the longest down of all—strangled with his malamute Rowdy’s leash. And when Holly takes the orphaned dog home, he quickly becomes her cherished new partner in digging up clues to a crime that cuts to the bone with betrayal—and will touch the heart of anyone who has ever loved a dog.