While going to the home of a vacationing client in Sarasota, Florida, professional pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway, a former sheriff's deputy, stumbles upon the corpse of a mysterious intruder, sending Dixie on a search for her missing client.

Pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway never would have guessed that her trip to the veterinarian's office would be anything but ordinary. But when she meets a teenage girl named Jaz in the waiting room, the ordinary is turned on its head, and Dixie is led on a wild-goose chase of epic proportions.--From publisher's description.

When ex-deputy, Florida pet sitter Dixie Hemingway meets Laura Halston, she believes she's found a new friend and then Laura is stabbed to death in her shower. With the help of her new boyfriend homicide detective Lt. Jean-Pierre Guidry, Dixie investigates everything there is to know about Laura and her sadistic ex-husband.

"This time out, Dixie's got a furry partner-in-crime, an irascible Lhasa Apso named Charlie. They've just arrived at the home of one of Dixie's regular clients to check in on Franklin, a mackerel tabby with avocado-green eyes and a luxuriant coat the color of dried beach grass. Despite a couple of bumps in the road (Franklin seems to be hiding in one of his favorite cubby holes, and Charlie scratches up the parlor door trying to get to the other side),...

In the sixth installment of the wildly popular Dixie Hemingway mystery series, Dixie is caring for the cat of a prickly old man whose granddaughter shows up with baby in tow. Dixie desperately tries to save this young woman and her infant from murderous con artists ready to kill in order to hold on to the millions they stole from naive investors. The villains, though, are not run of the mill criminals; they are among the socially prominent movers...