The cover is very cute, but the book is a bore. First, I can't stand first-person novels. Occasionally I find a good one, but most are hideous. This one was unbelievably irritating. The main character (Holly) will stop mid sentence to ask a rhetorical question. For example: "So, I was out training my dogs in agility yesterday. You don't know what agility is? That's a shame. It's _______".I got so sick of hearing about Cambridge. "Oh, that blanket is soooo Cambridge! This cafe is for the hipsters of Cambridge. In Cambridge, we eat this & drink this & wear this & say this". Blah blah blah!!!Too many characters... I couldn't even keep track of who had disappeared.Too much talk about how the AKC & UKC operate too. I love dogs. But I'm trying to read a novel here, not a textbook on how to train my animals.
#6 in the Dog Lover's Mystery series. Unfortunately named dog magazine columnist, Holly Winter, is based in Cambridge, MA. She persists in trying to train her malemute in this aptly named series for dog lovers.Dog Lover's series - Holly Winter meets John Buckley when he rescues her malemute Kimi from traffic. John shows up at odd times with whiskey breath and his dog, a mutt as he calls it - Holly tries to remember where she has heard of a tail like this dog has. Steve has a new assistant vet, Lee Miner who had worked for the missing vet Oscar Patterson, then Miner's wife goes missing.
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I always enjoy these dogs books by Susan Conant. The stories about Holly Winter and her two Alaskan malamutes are always entertaining.Holly is taking her two dogs to the vet and Kimi runs into traffic before Holly can get her leash on her. She is saved by a man who says he recently lost a dog.One of th local vets has been missing for 3 weeks and another vet's wife is missing. At Holly's Christmas party everyone is speculating about what has happened to these two people. Holly slowly unravels the mystery.
—Candice Mckinney
Another great story by Susan Conant! Holly's dog, Kimi, is saved by a strange man whom Holly then befriends and invites to her dog training club. At the same time, her boyfriend Steve hires another vet to work at his practice, something that is long needed so Steve can take some time off! Then people in the dog world start disappearing and who better than Holly to solve the mystery? Combining details about a rare breed of dogs with a history lesson on the exploration of Antarctica, Susan Conant again fills her book with factual details which make it a really enjoyable read.
—crayolaab
