It's time for Sylvan Creek's annual "Chili for Dogs" charity event--and when Daphne Templeton-Black's father, Ben, rolls into town with his food truck and his faithful mutt, it's sure to spice up the Memorial Day weekend. But another kind of memorial is in the cards when Jack's business partner downs some poisoned chili. As if Daphne didn't have enough family commitments helping her pregnant sister, now she has to figure out who had a beef with the victim and clear her father of murder. And as she peppers witnesses and suspects with questions, she's worried that if she can't get someone to spill the beans, her efforts won't amount to a hill of beans . . . Includes recipes for homemade pet treats! "Doggone charming from start to finish!" --Cleo Coyle, New York Times bestselling author on Death by Chocolate Lab

Millie Whitfield, owner of The Best Doggone Bakery, expects the Third Annual Fur-Baby Gala to be the best one yet-- that it will raise record-breaking donations for her charitable foundation to help needy dogs. Frannie Flowers, florist and event planner for the gala, falls and breaks her wrist chasing her new foster pup-- leaving Millie in a ruff spot. Daisy Flowers, first-year associate in her father's D.C. law firm, is following in her dad's footsteps-- what she always wanted to do. Edward Plant, the law firm's hunky investigator, has become Daisy's best friend and advisor. They met her first day on the job, and she's infatuated with him. Lately Daisy is feeling uncertain she's chosen the right career. The only thing making her feel happy is when she's dog sitting Max, a rough collie. So when her mom calls desperately needing her assistance at the gala, she wants to help. The problem is the awful timing-- her team is in final preparations for a major trial. Does she stay in D.C. or go to Houndsville? Decisions have consequences. Things happen. Even murder!

1950s Wyoming. An Ohio private eye. A friend's murder.Private investigator Heebs Kelly, a breezy young WWII veteran, came to Cheyenne to work with his Army buddy, not find him murdered at his desk. The police are eager to write off attorney Paul Richardson's homicide as the work of a passing vagrant - or as proof the victim was mixed up in something shady. His grief stricken family beg Heebs to find the killer and clear Paul's name. Soon Heebs and the tiny white dog he rescued from coyotes start stepping on the toes of influential people and threatening secrets someone wants to keep buried. When a pair of thugs jump him outside a bar to persuade him to keep his nose out, they find their would-be prey is tougher than his lack of cowboy boots and missing hand suggest. Instead of backing off, Heebs doubles down. He begins to uncover hints of corruption that reaches across the state, and maybe beyond. When another murder occurs, he faces the additional challenge of keeping a restless and supremely annoying witness alive long enough to cough up information that may or may not prove useful. Aided by his Mexican secretary, a woman doctor, and his prickly landlady, who fascinates him as much as she baffles him, Heebs picks out a trail that leads to a jarring connection. In an unfamiliar city, unsure who to trust, he risks his life to expose the truth and exact justice. Don't miss this new historical mystery series. By the author of the Maggie Sullivan mysteries.

Maira Kalman, with wit and great sensitivity, reveals why dogs bring out the best in us Maira Kalman + Dogs = Bliss Dogs have lessons for us all. In Beloved Dog, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman illuminates our cherished companions as only she can. From the dogs lovingly illustrated in her acclaimed children’s books to the real-life pets who inspire her still, Kalman’s Beloved Dog is joyful, beautifully illustrated, and, as always, deeply philosophical. Here is Max Stravinsky, the dog poet of Oh-La-La (Max in Love)-fame, and her own Irish Wheaton Pete (almost named Einstein, until he revealed himself to be “clearly no Einstein”), who also made an appearance in the delightful What Pete Ate: From A to Z. And of course, there is Boganch, Kalman’s in-laws’ “big black slobbering Hungarian Beast.” And that’s just the beginning. With humor and intelligence, Kalman gives voice to the dogs she adores, noting that they are constant reminders that life reveals the best of itself when we live fully in the moment and extend unconditional love. “And it is very true,” she writes, “that the most tender, complicated, most generous part of our being blossoms without any effort, when it comes to the love of a dog.”

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new material. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. Obedience school did no good -- Marley was expelled. But just as Marley joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. Marley remained a model of devotion, even when his family was at its wit's end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms. Marley & Me is John Grogan's funny, unforgettable tribute to this wonderful, wildly neurotic Lab and the meaning he brought to their lives.

She was young, beautiful -- and dead. And now they had to find her killer.