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"Kendra's steamy weekend getaway with gorgeous millionaire Dante DeFrancisco turns chilling when a mother wolf goes missing from Dante's wild animal sanctuary--and the only thing that's found is the wolf's caretaker dead in a cage, with a bloody knife at his side..."--p.[4] of cover.

For years, a soup kitchen in New York received money from a donor. The year it fails to arrive sleuth Alice Nestleton discovers he was murdered and no one knows by whom. She decides to find out.

Lawyer and pet-sitter Kendra Ballantyne's boyfriend and sidekick, Jeff Hubbard, P.I., is missing. Inquiries lead to Jeff's Aunt Lois, who reports that her Akita mix, Flisa, never made it back from a company that promised to clone the dog. Then one of the cloners is murdered. As the investigation unfolds, Kendra begins to wonder if Jeff may be the killer.

"Pet sitter Dixie Hemingway is on the prowl again in the newest installment of Blaize Clement's classic and beloved series of cozy mysteries, now written by her son, John Clement, using Blaize's notes and ideas for future adventures. Set in the sleepy beach-side town of Siesta Key, Florida, THE CAT SITTER'S WHISKERS catches up with Dixie as she heads off for work one morning in the dimly lit hours before sunrise. Her very first client of the morning...

"This time out, Dixie's got a furry partner-in-crime, an irascible Lhasa Apso named Charlie. They've just arrived at the home of one of Dixie's regular clients to check in on Franklin, a mackerel tabby with avocado-green eyes and a luxuriant coat the color of dried beach grass. Despite a couple of bumps in the road (Franklin seems to be hiding in one of his favorite cubby holes, and Charlie scratches up the parlor door trying to get to the other side),...