TO SOME IT’S JUST A PIECE OF CARDBOARD—
TO OTHERS, IT’S WORTH MILLIONS.
Cat-person Cat Hawl has pet-sat a dog or two in her time—it’s only neighborly when you live in dog-obsessed Barkview—but now she’s hit the big-league. Her current canine guest is a celebrity— the brilliant and beloved Champ, bat dog for a professional baseball team.
Baseball is in full swing in Barkview, and journalist Cat has the enviable job of wrangling Champ’s ink pad for his paw-o-graphs, while keeping the pup-arazzi from getting too ruff. To her great delight, the star’s irresistible--- the best behaved, best trained, maybe most loveable pooch she’s ever met.
Also maybe the smartest. You have to be smart to retrieve casually tossed bats while ignoring an entire stadium of fans chanting your illustrious name. But Champ’s never ruffled, never rattled— when the cheering begins, he just bobs his head regally to acknowledge his subjects.
Considering the odd theft that’s just occurred in Barkview, it’s pretty safe to imagine this furry virtuoso is inwardly howling at the silliness of his human pals. He’s got to be thinking, Why would a small square of cardboard, hardly even chewable, fetch a fortune?
Answer: Because it’s a collectible baseball card and collectors are goofier than the Puppy Bowl.
This one’s one of a kind, worth millions, and, since his new pal Cat has only 72 hours to find it, Champs’s happy to pitch in with a few Lab tests. And the su-paw-star has even more motivation. A bit of his doggy bling was left at the crime scene, and his good name’s endangered. He and Cat need to work fast to sniff out some very bad boy—or maybe girl-- and Barkview needs to re-home them to a cell.
Readers will fall hard for Champ and the sweet way cat-loving Cat does too. As always in a Barkview tale, the path to justice is great twisty fun, but this one’s a four-bagger for sure—it’s downright Labradorable!
Editor’s note: Champ would like you to know he’s much more than a literary pooch. He’s a flesh-and-fur Lab who really does fetch bats.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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