January 2016, Midnight Ink, 290 pages, Ebook, Review copy from NetGalley
Content: a little violence
Summary from Midnight Ink
When Seattle yoga teacher Kate Davidson agrees to teach doga (yoga
for dogs) at a fundraiser for a local animal shelter, she believes the
only damage will be to her reputation. But a few downward-facing dogs
are the least of Kate’s problems when an animal rights protest at the
event leads to a suspicious fire and a drowning.
The police arrest Dharma, a woman claiming to be Kate’s estranged
mother, and charge her with murder. To prove Dharma’s innocence, Kate,
her boyfriend Michael, and her German shepherd sidekick Bella dive
deeply into the worlds of animal activism and organizational politics.
As they investigate the dangerous obsessions that drive these groups,
Kate and her sleuthing team discover that when it comes to murder,
there’s no place like hOMe.
Nayu's thoughts
Ah Rene, you made me laugh loads! Rene, Kate's friend, is pregnant with twins
and her attitude to life is very amusing. She gets a little sad when
she isn't trusted by Kate to do something well, but her heart is
always in the right place. Who else would knowingly go into a
situation which aggravated her allergies just to help her best friend?
Rene would. I so can't wait for the chaos of when the twins are
born-the possibilities of baby drama while solving another case is
high.
On the murder front I
liked how close to home the details of the murder came to be, because
there was a lot of raw emotion for Kate which I could empathise with
in parts. Her love for animals is obvious, especially the new birds
in her life which made me smile. I liked seeing different types of
animal rescue and learning about the finer points of their operation.
I'm used to protesters in novels, but still had the same annoyance
for the animal and human lives they endangered which was a bit scary,
in some ways scarier than the incident at the end as fire is
uncontrollable while human actions to some extent aren't. Doga was
definitely a new aspect to dogs I'd not considered-poor Kate suffers
when a high ranking donor brings an inappropriate animal to Kate's
Doga class - much hilarity and cringing ensues. Definitely a fun
series to keep on my shelf!
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