Melanie Travis thought her sleuthing days were behind her She has a new baby to take care of - not to mention five Standard Poodles - and Aunt Peg is getting Davey ready for his debut as a junior showman These days the closest Melanie gets to detective work is scoping out the scene at the local doggie day centre for her friend Alice BrickmanAs Melanie learns its a dogs life at the Pine Ridge Canine Care Centre - and life is goodThe dogs are living large with a team of groomers and handlers at their bark and callEveryone seems blissfully happy Everyone canine that is For Melanie soon discovers there are some simmering resentments among the Pine Ridge staff and when Steve Pine the centres charming good-looking co-owner is found shot to death on the floor of his office theres no shortage of suspects His sister Candy stands to inherit their lucrative doggie day care operation His neighbour Adam Busch still blames Steve for paving the way for the other businesses that now exist in the once quiet all-residential town And then theres Lila Bennington the disgruntled client who wanted to sue Steve following an embarrassing incident involving a Shih Tzu and a Beagle mix And lastly the string of female customers Steve bedded and jilted But which of these suspects was desperate enough to commit murder.
