Panthers Play for Keeps

When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn't expectto find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has a good nose that leadsher right to the remains of a beautiful young woman. Despite her bestinstincts, Pru can't avoid getting involved. The young woman seems to have beenmauled by a wild cat, but Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshirewoods for years. And while Wallis, Pru's curmudgeonly tabby, seems fixated onthe idea of a killer cat, Spot has been sending strange signals to Pru's ownheightened senses, suggesting that the violent death was something more than atragic accident. As motives multiply, a cougar of a different sort sets hereyes on Pru's sometime lover, and another woman disappears. With panther panic growing,Pru may have to put aside her own issues-and her own ideas of domesticity-tosolve a savage mystery.