Panthers Play for Keeps

MURDER, TOOTH AND CLAW

As a pet psychic and animal behaviorist, Pru Marlowe deals with all kinds of eccentric creatures. But when she and her service-dog trainee Spot find a woman's savaged body in the woods, their instincts say something is off. Mariela Gomez seems to have been killed by a big cat—but there haven't been cougars in the area for a hundred years. Not to mention the odd coincidence that Mariela worked for wealthy Richard Haigen, Pru's client…and Spot's prospective owner. And sinister "facilitator" Gregor Benazi is back in town—motive and employer unknown…

Now, to suss out the truth, Pru and Spot must track through a jungle of deception. And she's gathering enough bait to trap the most dangerous human—and non-human—perpetrators. But another grisly death will put someone only a slash away from burying Pru and Spot in an all-too-silent grave…