- A dog trainer, with a talent for solving murder mysteries, investigates the murder of an elderly woman
- Margaret O'Halloran is a dog trainer with a unique talent and a nose for a mystery. Now an old lady has been savaged to death, her faithful dog is the prime suspect. But Margaret smells a murderer of the two legged variety.—Anonymous
- Margaret O'Halloran can think like a dog. This is a rare gift; something many aspire to but few achieve. It has earned her the title of Dogwoman. With the dog as her only clue, Margaret is drawn into a world of mystery, intrigue and sometimes even murder, which lies beneath the surface of the happy, dog-owning family. A world in which everyone has a secret and the dog is the only one telling the truth.
- She's glamorous, she's sixty-something and she's dead. Freda Bell is found murdered in her unit at Serenity Plus, an old people's home. She has been killed by a dog bite to the throat. Her German Shepherd, Golden, is found next to her body, his snout covered in her blood. There is no sign of forced entry. No-one else was sighted in the vicinity.
It looks like an open and shut case. But Margaret O'Halloran, the legendary "Dog Woman", suspects foul play. Called in to placate the dangerous dog, Margaret's instincts tell her that Golden is not the killer dog. He's been set up. But by whom and for what reason? It's a race against the clock as Margaret tries to uncover the truth whilst Golden awaits his fate in "death row" at the Lost Dog's Home.
Margaret's investigation leads to a web of secrets and lies, intrigue and conspiracy. First, she meets Andrew Bell, Freda's scientist nephew, who stands to inherit a lot of money if Freda dies. He's got a motive-a serious gambling problem. He's got a murder weapon - a ferocious dog guarding his backyard. Could Andrew have murdered Freda and framed Golden?
Then there are the other residents of Serenity Plus. Some of them have got a real motive to commit murder. The unscrupulous Freda had swindled a group of residents out of their superannuation savings. What revenge have they been plotting? And what is their connection to the security guard, Darren, and his ferocious bull mastiff? Just as Margaret begins to track down her suspects, she is stopped in her tracks. Golden attacks someone else! This time, an innocent visitor to the Lost Dog's Home.
A doubt is raised in Margaret's mind. Perhaps Golden is a "Manchurian Candidate"-an apparently placid animal programmed to kill when "activated" by the right signal? Time's almost up. This second attack by Golden leads to a magistrate's order. The killer dog is to be destroyed the following morning. Margaret has less than twenty four hours to find out if Golden really killed Freda Bell. In uncovering the truth, she unravels a mystery whose dimensions go far beyond anything she could have possibly imagined. And in the end, it's not just Golden's life on the line. It's her own.
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