Will this mystery game be murder?Peaceful Dreams B&B is hosting a murder mystery game to celebrate its grand opening. Local sleuth Clarissa Hayes and her loyal Saint Bernard, Paw, have joined in the entertainment.All is fun and games until one of the guests is found dead at the bottom of the basement stairs. Was it an accident? Or murder? Did the victim share a secret past with one of the … of the guests or the B&B owners?
It’s up to Clarissa and Paw to trail the clues to find out the truth. Along the way they’re joined by a bevy of friends, both human and animal, including a black cat who is embroiled in a mystery of his own.
Will peaceful dreams reign or will the killer unleash nightmares for all?
This is the 2nd novel in A Dog Detective Series. Mastiffs, Mystery, and Murder was the first novel.
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I know people love to read about the English Mastiff, Baby, in my Josiah Reynolds mysteries, so I know readers will love this mystery which is a dog detective mystery. If you love dogs and mysteries, then Bassets and Blackmail is a win-win.
I love cozy mysteries with dogs. Paw the Saint Bernard was a fun playful helpmate for sleuth Clarissa Hayes. This book starts out as a Mystery Game weekend at a local bed and breakfast. But it fast turns in to the real thing. There are lots of characters in this cozy mystery and I find it hard to keep up with so many. This is the 2nd book in this series and I have not read book one but had no problems because of that. This book works well as a stand alone story. The narrator Nancy Bober does a good job of giving animal sounds and reading this book. I was gifted this book with the understanding that I would leave an honest review.
cozy-mystery, pets, law-enforcement, amateur-sleuth, private-investigators, murder-investigation
The Bed and Breakfast hosts a mock murder mystery weekend that gets real.
The owners and friends have a number of rescued pets, but none of the guests brought any this time. A human finds the first victim, a dog finds the first clue, a cat finds an expensive bracelet that seems unrelated to the murder. And then things really get twisty!
An excellent cozy with delightful characters. And the people are interesting, too!
Nancy Bober gives an excellent interpretative narration.
I requested and received a free audio copy via AudioBookBOOM.
This review is for the audio book.
I really enjoyed the first book in this series so I jumped t the chance to listen to book two. Glad I did because this was another fun listen and I hope there are more to come. I really like the way the animals are key to the story and do play a big part in solving the case, unlike other cozy mystery that have animals on the cover but our barely mention them, I love animals in story’s because they are get up to so much mischief that often lead to very funny situations, this book a case in point. Being a pet owner I found myself smiling over some very familiar situations. The mystery was good too, with plenty of reasons for the murder and suspects to eliminate, it kept you guessing.
To help some friends with the opening of there new B&B, Clarissa and her St Bernard Paws agree to be part of the entertainment by joining in on a murder mystery. Clarissa no stranger to playing amateur sleuths she is quiet happy to sit this one out and just provide clues. That is until the game turns deadly and one of the guest dies. Was it an accident or has she got another murder mystery of her own to solve? Clarissa is soon joined by her friends as they to become guests at the house but will there presence be enough to stop another death? With little old ladies playing bad cop, noisy reporters trying to get the scoop, cats,dogs and parrots all staying at the B&B and not liking being left in there rooms and Clarissa’s uncle the real lawman telling her to stay out of it every chance he gets the girls have there work cut out for them to interview all the guest before they go home. Playing clue was never this hard.
I liked the narrator and thought she did a good job with all the voices and barks needed to bring the story to life
Shades of Agatha!
This is essentially a locked house mystery–with everyone free to come and go. The key elements, however, are all in place: a large number of seemingly unrelated people gathered for a murder mystery weekend, not anticipating the murder will be real. Unraveling who knew whom how is part of the charm and, as read by Nancy Bober, like listening to an early radio play. And, of course, the whole plot goes to the dogs! Lots of fun.
I have loved all of these books but then I love animals and mysteries. So whats not to love