The Pets Of Crime Fiction
Animals are incredibly smart, so it just makes sense that they make an appearance in crime fiction as side characters. These six books range from light-hearted to deadly serious, and each features a beloved pet or working dog that helps the human characters track down murderers and criminals.
Jess Winslow is a former Marine and current sheriff deputy trainee in Deception Cove, WA. When a body is discovered, Jess is alarmed to find that it's Brock Boyd, a hometown hero who has fallen on hard times. The last person to see Brock alive was in fact Jess's boyfriend, but she can't believe that he would be responsible, not when he's been so kind and understanding of her haunting experiences in Afghanistan with her pit bull service dog, Lucy. But Jess is going to have to face hard truths if she's going to crack this mystery.
Inspector Ashwin Chopra has had a good career as a police inspector in Mumbai, and now he's being forced into retirement. But on the last day of work, two things happen that change his life: He's given a baby elephant, and a boy is discovered, dead. His death is ruled a suicide by drowning, but Ashwin isn't convinced, and he begins his own investigation, aided most unexpectedly by his new pet elephant.
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