All Shots (Dog Lover's Series #18) by Susan Conant

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Holly Winter the malamute trainer knows she's not the only Holly Winter living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it would be so much nicer if Holly number two weren't a dog-hating academic... and if a third woman calling herself Holly Winter didn't happen to be dead. Holly number one can attest to this unfortunate fact, having discovered the gunned-down body while searching for a missing Siberian husky.

Another missing dog-this time a blue malamute- is somehow tied into this tangled web. With her husband Steve away on a camping trip and her other human housemates otherwise occupied, Holly and her prize-winning pups will have to bring the case to heel on their own-before a killer sniffs them out.

Publishers Weekly

In Conant's entertaining 18th Dog Lover's mystery (after 2006's Gaits of Heaven), Holly Winter, Massachusetts malamute trainer and dog columnist, goes searching for a missing dog, a Siberian husky named Strike, and instead finds a woman's corpse. In the victim's possession are personal papers belonging to Holly and another Cambridge-area Holly Winter, suggesting the woman may have been indulging in a little identity theft. Even stranger, when Holly finally finds Strike, she turns out to be a rare blue Alaskan malamute with Holly's name and phone number on her tag. The two living Holly Winters must deal with their mutual dislike as they hurl into a hair-raising conflict connected to a crooked former dog breeder who'll stop at nothing to get what he wants. Conant includes a lot of insider doggy details and lovingly depicts Holly's interactions with her malamutes, Kimi, Rowdy and young pup Sammy. Sammy and Rowdy's courageous defense of Holly when the killer catches up to her will have dog lovers cheering. (Nov.)

Kirkus Reviews

Identity theft, drug dealing and murder-what's going on in Cambridge, Mass.?Canine writer, trainer and Malamute maven Holly Winter (Gaits of Heaven, 2006, etc.) is asked to help find a Siberian husky gone missing from the home of its sitter, gentle, mentally challenged dog lover Mellie O'Leary. Unfortunately, her search turns up the remains of another Holly Winter, dead on the kitchen floor of Mellie's absent neighbor, Zach Ho. Just that morning Holly had returned home to find a strange biker looking for someone named Holly Winter who's supposed to have something for him. Knowing that there are others of that name living in the area, she convinces him that she's the wrong Holly. Then a third Holly Winter who knows Zach accuses Holly No. 1 of identity theft. When Lt. Kevin Dennehy shows her a picture of an unusual blue Malamute found among the forms of identity stolen from Holly No. 3's garbage, our heroine reaches out to her contacts in the dog world in an attempt to trace the animal. Her sources suspect it may have belonged to a former breeder who was involved in drugs and took off, leaving his dogs to starve. Holly No. 1 encounters a passel of trouble as she tries to discover what's going on in the strange world of too many Holly Winters. Second-drawer Conant is still a dog-lover's delight that reveals everything you want to know about Alaskan Malamutes.

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