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Animal Fiction

Book Review: Santa’s Little Yelpers by David Rosenfelt

By Doreen Sheridan

November 4, 2022

In Andy Carpenter’s household, the Christmas season lasts from Halloween to February due to the insistence of his Yuletide-loving wife, Laurie. While Andy grumbles, he mostly doesn’t mind. In fact, he’s downright feeling the holiday spirit as December rolls around and one of the employees at his dog rescue, the Tara Foundation, asks for his…

Book Review: The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton

By Doreen Sheridan

July 21, 2022

Mason “Mace” Reid is a dog obedience trainer specializing in human remains detection (HRD). His stable of dogs is as well-trained as it is loved, and is constantly on-call to assist Chicago law enforcement in seeking out the dead or otherwise lost. Though Mace is proud of all the dogs in his pack, the star…

Book Review: Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries by Martin Edwards

By Doreen Sheridan

June 8, 2022

The involvement of animals in popular mystery fiction, as Martin Edwards notes in his excellent introduction to this collection, has been a large and lively part of the genre from its very inception. From what’s commonly acknowledged as the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders In The Rue Morgue,” to the plethora of…

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