Susan Conant Books In Order

Cat Lover’s Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. Scratch the Surface (2005)

Dog Lover’s Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. A New Leash on Death (1990)
  2. Dead and Doggone (1990)
  3. A Bite of Death (1991)
  4. Paws Before Dying (1991)
  5. Gone to the Dogs (1992)
  6. Bloodlines (1992)
  7. Ruffly Speaking (1994)
  8. Black Ribbon (1994)
  9. Stud Rites (1996)
  10. Animal Appetite (1997)
  11. Evil Breeding (1999)
  12. The Barker Street Regulars (1999)
  13. Creature Discomforts (2000)
  14. The Wicked Flea (2002)
  15. The Dogfather (2003)
  16. Bride & Groom (2005)
  17. Gaits of Heaven (2006)
  18. All Shots (2007)
  19. Brute Strength (2011)
  20. Sire and Damn (2015)

Dog Lover’s Mysteries Collections In Publication Order

  1. Two Vintage Holly Winter Stories (2010)

A Gourmet Girl Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. Steamed (By:Jessica Conant-Park) (2006)
  2. Simmer Down (2007)
  3. Turn Up the Heat (2008)
  4. Fed Up (2009)
  5. Cook the Books (2010)

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Susan Conant Books Overview

Scratch the Surface

A new series and a new species for the award winning author of the Dog Lover’s mysteries. Introducing a great new series and a terrific new sleuth in Felicity Pride, herself an author of a series of popular cat mysteries. Now Felicity’s facing a real mystery when she finds a cat and a corpse on her doorstep. Who was he? Who killed him? And what publicity value could it all have for her newest novel? The answers may lie with an avid pet hater; a highbrow professor who’s read every cat mystery ever written; or perhaps with Felicity’s own number one rival in the field, a reclusive, bestselling author. With a burly, kilt wearing detective on her side, Felicity must sort out a case more puzzling than any she’s ever plotted on paper.

A New Leash on Death

At dog obedience school, fighting is common especially between owners. But columnist Holly Winter is shocked when a training session ends in murder and she finds some bone chilling clues…
‘The dog lover’s answer to…
The Cat Who series.’ Rocky Mountain News

Gone to the Dogs

The disappearance of veterinarian Oscar Patterson leads Holly Winter, her veterinarian lover, Steve, and her two malamutes, Rowdi and Kim, on an investigation into deceit and murder.

Bloodlines

Normally Holly winter wouldn’t be caught dead in a place like Puppy Luv a mall pet shop that’s no doubt an outlet for the puppy mill industry and a hotbed of forged papers, broken promises and mistreated animals. But a hot tip on a malamute pup suddenly has Holly charging to the rescue and panting to put the owner out of business. Trouble is, she’s not the only one who has a bone to pick with Diane Sweet. in a matter of hours the puupy love proprietess is gruesomely murdered. When Holly links the killing with the disappearance of another malamute an adorable live wire named Missy she digs up startling evidence that soon leads her into the fiercely competitive and deadly underworld of dog breeding. A place where her biggest fears are realized. And where her animal instincts are all that can save her.

Ruffly Speaking

Ruffly, a mutt who hears for the hearing impaired, tunes into sounds no humans can hear when he and his owner move into the home of a recently deceased dog lover and amateur sleuth Holly Winter suspects murder. K.

Black Ribbon

Holly Winter and her Alaskan Malamute, Rowdy, are spending a week at Waggin’ Tail Camp, but Holly receives a sympathy card for the loss of her pet is it a sick joke or is Kimi, her other Malamute, in jeopardy?

Animal Appetite

When Holly Winter accepts her friend’s challenge to write about something other than dogs, her presumed subject is the story of Hannah Duston, an early settler of Massachusetts who was captured by Native Americans, escaped, andlived to tell the tale. Soon enough, however, Holly is diverted by the much more contemporary death of one Jack Winter Andrews no relation, as it turns out, who was purportedly poisoned in the office of his small publishing company eighteen years before while his pet golden retriever, chained to his desk, looked on. Whether drawn by the coincidence of Andrews’s middle name, or the siren call of a dog’s involvement however peripheral, Holly is compelled to find out more about the publisher’s demise. Was it suicide, as the police had determined? Or murder, as his widow and many others insist?In the end, Holly is unable to unravel all the threads of Hannah Duston’s life, but she does manage to solve the mystery of Jack Andrews’s death. Though not before the murderer succeeds in killing again, and almost sends Holly, along with her two beloved Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, to the same horrible fate. And, of course, interwoven with Holly’s sleuthing are the delightful tidbits of canine lore, purebred dog fancy gossip, and training tips that Susan Conant’s many fans have come to expect and love. In fact, as Holly discovers, the late Jack Andrews’s second, secret life centered around what else showing dogs!

Evil Breeding

Dog’s Life columnist Holly Winter has just landed a plum contract to write a book on Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge’s legendary pre World War II dog shows. Holly arranges to interview one of the last living participants in those fabulously opulent and exclusive shows: canine fancier B. Robert Motherway. But there’s something decidedly unsettling about the gracious old gent’s imposing home with its acres of kennels. His dying wife wails piteously in an upstairs room, his servants are his sullen son and his downtrodden daughter in law, and his favorite German shepherd dog has an ill bred snarl. Meanwhile, Holly’s mail is laced with anonymous packages old photographs, letters in German, and a brochure on pills for listless pooches. Nothing makes sense until a garroted body is found in a nearby cemetery. Suddenly Holly and her Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, are on a seventy year old trail of deception, decadence, and death. And either they unearth the skeletons or join them.

The Barker Street Regulars

Susan Conant continues to surprise this time by involving dog writer Holly Winter in a wickedly amusing tale full of dastardly deeds and delightful eccentrics. An avid devotion to the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and an equally avid devotion to dogs, combine to draw Holly Winter and her two beloved malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, into one of Conant’s most original and entertaining mysteries to date. Rowdy has finished his training as a therapy dog and now accompanies Holly on weekly visits to the Gateway Nursing Home, where they meet Althea Battlefield, still formidable at the age of ninety, and her two elderly, admiring cohorts, Hugh and Robert all fanatic devotees of the Master as they call Sherlock Holmes. When Althea’s grandnephew is murdered at the home of her younger sister, Ceci, everyone is horrified, but it’s the plight of Ceci herself who is being victimized by an unscrupulous animal psychic that finally unites this unlikely group in a crime stopping spree that requires not only the finely tuned ratiocination of the Holmes admirers but the eager cooperation of an outraged Holly and the very particular talents of her willing canine accomplices. No special knowledge of the Sherlockian canon is required for the utmost enjoyment of this engaging romp, and Conant’s own devoted followers will be delighted to find her dog loving alter ego, Holly Winter, still poking fun at the world of Cambridge eccentrics and dog fancy fanatics, but also expanding her horizons into the world of literary trivia and yes feline rescue, however initially reluctant.

Creature Discomforts

A hike in the woods has memorable consequences for dog writer Holly Winter in this latest of Susan Conant’s Dog Lover’s Mysteries. When Holly Winter awakens, battered and bruised, clinging to a boulder on the side of a cliff, she doesn’t even recognize her own beloved malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, much less remember their names or her own. She does, however, realize they’re her dogs, and that she is to put it mildly a ‘dog person.’ And she vaguely remembers hearing a sinister voice from above. Putting clues together, she discovers that she is in Acadia National Park, on Mount Desert Island, Maine, and that she’s the guest of one Gabrielle Beamon, a most attractive and charming woman, whom Holly doesn’t recognize at all. When it is discovered that there was another fall, this one fatal, at approximately the same time and close to the same place as Holly’s, she begins to fear for her own safety. In fact, she has all she can do to figure out what’s going on without giving away her own loss of memory. You’ll be licking your chops with glee as the dog fanciers in Conant’s eclectic and eccentric group of characters once more prove themselves smarter and more resourceful in every way than their more anthropocentric counterparts.

The Wicked Flea

Their wait is over. The newest book in the series that has been praised as ‘hilarious’ Los Angeles Times and ‘a real tail wagger’ The Washington Post, The Wicked Flea finds dog walkers and joggers battling for territory in the local park and Holly Winter caught up in a struggle with a poorly trained canine and some barely civilized humans.

The Dogfather

Holly Winter gets an offer she can’t refuse: dog trainer to the Mob. Specifically, teaching an Elkhound puppy to behave. Its owner is another story a wiseguy who’s killed so many people even the FBI’s lost count. And now Holly’s caught in the middle of his newest vendetta…

Bride & Groom

Dog trainer Holly Winter is set to marry veterinarian Steve Delaney, but the wedding plans have been spoiled by murder and Holly’s taking it personally. The victims have been female dog lovers, and since Holly fits the profile, ’till death do us part’ isn’t just an upcoming vow it’s a dire warning.

Gaits of Heaven

Dog lovers and mystery fans await this new novel from the award winning author of Bride and Groom. Praised for its eccentric and quirky characters Susan Conant’s hilarious series now finds dedicated dog trainer Holly Winter following the tracks of an odd breed of pup to an even stranger breed of human when she’s enlisted to rein in a dysfunctional New Age couple’s over spirited Aussie huskapoo. But when the wife succumbs to an accidental overdose of mixed meds, Holly becomes embroiled in the family’s dirty little secrets, especially when the victim’s daughter convinces Holly that it was murder.

All Shots

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.

Steamed (By:Jessica Conant-Park)

Susan Conant, the acclaimed author of the Dog Lover’s mysteries and the Cat Lover’s mysteries, now teams with her daughter for a new culinary mystery series featuring Chloe Carter known in the chatrooms as GourmetGirl, food connoisseur and survivor of failed romances. On a quest for the perfect meal and man she risks a blind date with a fellow food lover who’s stabbed to death before the check comes. Talk about a rocky love life. Chloe’s first date of the week is murdered. Her second date is with the prime suspect. The investigation plunges the amateur sleuth into the gourmet restaurant scene to discover a cutthroat world of killer competition, stormy love affairs, and a recipe for Baby Bok Choy Slaw to die for.

Simmer Down

After a trendy club owner is bludgeoned with a food processor, Gourmet Girl Chloe Carter finds the list of suspects longer than the line to get in to Simmer, her chef boyfriend’s hot new restaurant.

Turn Up the Heat

The Gourmet Girl returns to solve the murder of one bad egg. Chloe Carter has a lot on her plate exams for grad school are coming up, and her chef boyfriend needs her support as his fledgling trendy restaurant comes into its own. The staff of Simmer gets along like peti*ts pois in a pod, everyone pulling pranks on one another now and then. Everyone, that is, except for Leandra, a waitress who treats the busboys like chopped liver and can never take a joke. One morning, Leandra’s dead body is found in a fish truck. So people start to wonder: was this just a prank gone awry? Or did somebody actually want her to sleep with the fishes?

Fed Up

The latest in a series with ‘all the right ingredients fresh characters, a dash of humor and a sizzling romance.’Elaine Viets

Part time student Chloe Carter is planning her best friend’s wedding, working for her parents and glued to her chef boyfriend, Josh, as he competes to star in a new TV series. The premise: Josh hijacks unsuspecting grocery shoppers and prepares them gourmet dinners. Everything’s going great until one shopper drops dead.

With the cameras on him from the beginning, Josh is obviously innocent, but Chloe wonders: Was it one of Josh’s competitors? Or the deceased’s husband? Or someone on the crew?

Sifting through suspects, Chloe deals with wedding chaos and Josh’s erratic behavior. She’ll have to balance her plate while trying to catch a food felon…

Cook the Books

This Gourmet Girl has to take the heat-because she just can’t get away from the kitchen.

Chloe Carter desperately needs a job, so she takes one assisting a cookbook writer. Unfortunately it stirs up painful memories of her ex- boyfriend Josh, who left her for Hawaii. While compiling a book of recipes from Boston’s top chefs, she comes in contact with one of Josh’s friends, Digger. Chloe manages to stay cool until later she finds Digger’s apartment charred-with Digger in it.

Not believing that an expert chef would die from a grease fire, she sets about looking for Digger’s killer. But things get sticky when the tragedy brings Josh back to Boston-and back into Chloe’s life.

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