Gone to the Dogs

If your name is Holly Winter, Yuletide can be a real female dog. When a local vet and a pampered pet suddenly disappear, Holly scents hemlock amid the pine and mistletoe and follows the tracks of a purebred killer. To get a leg up on the mystery, Holly takes her two Alaskan malamutes and hunk veterinarian Steve Delaney into the exclusive Cambridge Dog Training Club and back out onto the dangerous streets of the city. She won't quit until she muzzles a rare breed of two-time killer, because when it comes to dognapping and sudden death, Holly has a short leash for murder...A Dog Lover's Mystery #5 Chinook dogs

So this was a good book, but not a great one. The story didn't seem quite as exciting as previous ones in the series. I did think that the killer's way of disposing of bodies was unique, not something I had heard of before. But I never felt a real sense of menace. The story just ambled along, with lots of doggy information mixed in.

Very clever!