Coaxing info from her four-legged sources, Grace tracks the missing girl and the surprising truths around her. Yet Brooke’s parents are unconcerned, and Grace’s police detective-boyfriend can’t open a kidnapping probe based on a tiger’s testimony. Grace, whose psychic knack enables her to converse with critters, realizes that Boris the Siberian is agitated because young Brooke Ligner is missing. In her acknowledgments, Mugavero thoughtfully thanks pet rescuers everywhere.Ī tip from a troubled tiger at the Happy Asses Donkey and Big Cat Rescue facility alerts animal behaviorist Grace Wilde to a missing teen in A Tiger’s Tale, by Laura Morrigan (Berkley paperback, $7.99). Her good intentions stir up secrets that threaten her cooking career - and her life. Now, instead of growing her company, Stan must reluctantly pitch in to help the family of the hapless dairy farmer, whose enemies included everyone but the cows. Stan’s Pawsitively Organic meals for pets are gaining foodie fame in pastoral Frog Ledge, and a terrier’s birthday bash was supposed to have showcased those treats to the festive crowd. Brooklyn fears that this old book has drawn too much attention, perhaps due to a faint but tantalizing signature on the inside page: “Mae West”!Ī Biscuit, a Casket, by Liz Mugavero (Kensington paperback, $7.99), serves up a corpse in a corn maze, which is inconvenient for both the victim and Kristan “Stan” Connor, who’s hosting a canine costume party just yards away. But before that can happen, a man claiming to be the book’s real owner attacks Brooklyn, and Vera turns up with garden shears jammed into her neck. She’s scored a sweet gig as a guest appraiser on TV’s popular “This Old Attic.” In one episode, she estimates that the value of a first edition of “The Secret Garden” could “feed a family of four for at least two years.” The vintage copy was submitted by Vera, who bought it at a garage sale for $3 and giddily anticipates turning her find into fortune. Is a book worth killing for? In The Book Stops Here, by Kate Carlisle (Obsidian, $24.99), bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright may learn the answer.
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