Everyone adores Amy Stewart… ...except the guilty. In a small SoCal town, where neighbors know each other, beach chairs stay out all year, and everyone knows your dog by name, there are still skeletons in every closet. The body was found at a cooking school. Amy spends most of her time working at her pet salon, keeping her head down, re-building her life after heartbreak. But when dead bodies turn up, her own life drama seems less important…and she can’t help but investigate. Who would have killed the cooking school instructor? Amy’s granny helps with all the investigations and she thinks the owner of the place has a suspicious vibe. Muscular and stubbled Detective Mike Fine disagrees. Amy is caught between them, digging for the truth like a Terrier out in the backyard.