"Includes recipes for pet treats!"--Cover.

Lacy Marie Crocker has settled into a comfortable groove back home in New Orleans, and with Valentines Day right around the corner, shes busier than ever running a thriving pet boutique, helping her mother organize the upcoming National Pet Pageant, and untangling her complicated love life. But when delivering a king-sized order of dreidel-shaped doggy biscuits for a Saint Berdoodles bark-mitzvah, Lacy stumbles into yet another murder sceneand the last person to see the victim alive was her own father.Its up to Lacy to clear her dads name from the suspect list before Detective Jack Oliver has to cage him for good. But just when she starts pawing at the truth, she receives a threatening letter from a mysterious blackmailer bent on silencing her with her own secrets. And Lacys not the only one with bones in her closet.