Critics around the country have consistently praised Shamus Award-winning author Carol Lea Benjamin for her razor-sharp writing, stylish plotting, and characters so rich and fully fleshed that you feel as if you've known them all of your life. Now, in a tale of family secrets and heartbreaking be...
From former detective turned noted author and dog trainer, Carol Lea Benjamin, comes the fourth book in the critically-lauded Rachel Alexander mystery series, with a sharp new package--and for the first time in mass market! Dash, Rachel Alexander's pit bull terrier, has come to be known as half a...
firstly, it wasn't "bad". just wasn't my thing. so I can't give it three stars as that would be saying "i liked it". this reminds me that I shouldn't decide to not read a book simply due to a low online star rating. it was like an episode of Cold Case or Without A Trace, the tv shows. I didn...
This was the first mystery I have read by this author. It took me a chapter to sort of catch up because I hadn't read the first books in the series but it wasn't a serious disadvantage. I intend to look for the other books in the series. I happened to come across this book at the library fair and...
She gets top billing. But he's the real teeth of the operation. In the search for a killer, they make the perfect team.... She's thirty-eight, too independent for most men's taste, and too suspicious for her own good. In her back-alley Greenwich Village cottage, private investigator Rachel Al...
At a dog trainer's convention in New York, it's the humans that need to be housebroken. From animal psychics to shock-treatment disciplinarians, every method of dog training is represented in an atmosphere of extreme jealousy. When one of the trainers ends up dead, it's up to Rachel and Dash to c...
Her workout clothes were getting a bit ripe, and unlike my sister Lillian, I had more pressing things to do than the wash. I took Dashiell to the strip of land along the river, now gussied up with benches and called a park, and let him run for a while. Then we headed for Lisa’s. When I unlocked t...
I didn’t know how long Maggie would take to change into her uniform and I didn’t want to be asked to leave it with her. I thought it more expedient if she didn’t see it in the first place, at least not until I knew what sort of notes her brother had made and thought he needed to hide under the dr...
I was feeling almost smug, standing across the street from Keller’s, knowing all the papers I needed were waiting for me at home. I hardly noticed the time passing, until the ambient sound on Little West Twelfth Street changed. I heard a bird singing. The sky was still dark, but no longer inky. I...