Animal Appetite: A Dog Lover's Mystery - Tapa dura

While investigating the death of a publisher who was found with his pet golden retriever chained to his desk, Holly Winter finds her own life in danger and those of her two beloved Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi

inter 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, and
lived 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. &