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 |   A Jo Beth Sidden Bloodhound Mystery | | ||||
|  This isn't the first time that Jo Beth Sidden's life has gone to the dogs. But the bloodhound trainer-turned-sleuth's latest case has a trail so cold there isn't a scent for her trusty canines to trace. Thirty years ago, two baby girls were kidnapped and their nanny murdered. The estate owner's daughter turned up safe in a nearby church. The other, the gardener's child, was never found. The man convicted of the two crimes was a vagrant who insisted he was innocent throughout the three decades he served of a life sentence.Now, he's being paroled for health reasons and Sheriff Hank Cribbs is worried his return will stir up bad blood. Turning to his best friend, Jo Beth, Hank asks for help. With her beloved blind bloodhound, the two-year-old Bobby Lee, Jo Beth must sniff out the ghosts of the past and find the truth buried deep in a swamp of cunning deceit and murderous secrets. Praise for Virginia Lanier "Jo Beth and her dogs are barking up the right tree... Readers will be amply satisfied." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Virginia Lanier's Southern mysteries have one irresistibly appealing ingredient: dogs... Jo Beth deserves a good scratch behind the ears for running a crackerjack occupation." -- New York Times Book Review "Her canine characters are totally captivating." -- Amazon.com "An action-packed, sometimes humorous, always entertaining read... An intriguing plot, colorful characters and vivid descriptions of small-town life bordered by an unforgiving swamp, places Lanier at the top of the list of storytellers in the mystery genre." -- Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) | | ||||
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