Someone’s been barking up the wrong barstool in this uncannily enjoyable new canine mystery series from USA Today Bestselling author Diana Orgain!Every Friday night in the idyllic seaside town of Pacific Cove, California, the Roundup Crew, a group of dog-friendly folks, have a spirited meet-up at their local wine bar. But when the owner, Rachel, leaves town on mysterious business―and her … business―and her pet-unfriendly sister, Maggie, takes charge of the bar―things take a ruff turn. Not only does Maggie find a body sprawled on the floor, it’s accompanied by an incriminating letter with Rachel’s name on it. On impulse, she hides the letter from hunky detective, Officer Brad Brooks.
“Pull up a chair, put your barking dogs on ice and enjoy the first in a hilarious new series.”
Kate Carlisle, New York Times bestselling author, on Yappy Hour.
With Rachel as the prime suspect, Maggie sniffs out the scene on her own while getting to know the Roundup Crew and their four-legged besties. The Doggie Daiquiris and Muttgaritas are flowing, but it’s not long before another body turns up. Thanks to the Roundup Crew, Maggie’s new litter of friends will do anything to save the bar and solve the mystery. . .and maybe find a bit of puppy love in the process.
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It may be a dog eat dog world, but Orgain will have you laughing out loud, even as you puzzle over whodunit and race to the finish in time for the Tails and Tiaras fundraiser. Pull up a chair, put your barking dogs on ice and enjoy Yappy Hour, the first in a hilarious new series.
I really, really liked this book!!! I liked the characters and the story was really good. No sex and no cursing! YAY!! Because who needs it anyway!! It doesn’t add anything to the story. Didn’t know the murderer until the end. Characters were quirky and fun. Just a good and cute cozy mystery!!! Thank you Diana Orgain.
Great story with laughs along the way with a mystery to solve. Poor Maggie is caught in the middle of dog crazy people and a mystery she needs to solve.
“Murder at Yappy Hour” is a delightful fast-reading book about Maggie who leaves a job in financing in New York City to come to the small California town of Pacific Cove to live near her sister Rachel and her 84 year old great-uncle Earnest Grunkly who has had a stroke and has just fired the last of his nurses. Grunkly is rich and owns several race horses, the land upon which her sister Rachel built a bar called The Wine and Bark, and a beautiful house overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Maggie gets a text from her sister asking her to please run the bar while Rachel is going out of town. Maggie knows nothing about running a bar and when she gets to the bar on the first afternoon, finds a woman named Yolanda leaning over the body of a dead man. Nipping at her ankles and peeing on her shoe is Yolanda’s small dog Beepo. Yolanda tells Maggie that the body is that of Dan Walters, half owner of the restaurant DelVecchio’s and former boyfriend of Rachel. When the police arrive, Maggie meets and becomes attracted to tall, handsome Officer Brooks. She learns that in order to keep the bar open, Rachel had arranged for dog owners, part of the Roundup Crew, to come to the bar and spend evenings with their dogs, with the people all drinking, socializing and watching their dogs play together. Max, part of the group, had been a bar tender in college and helps Maggie run the bar. The bar has to be closed the night of the murder and patrons , including those with dogs, have to be turned away. Maggie learns from one of the women that Rachel has gone on a cruise to elope with someone named Chuck who she had only met two weeks before. Maggie wonders how Rachel could have eloped without mentioning anything to her. The police think that Rachel murdered Dan and fled to parts unknown. Then Maggie meets someone else with whom she shares a mutual attraction, Dan’s partner Gus DeVecchio, the chef and half owner of the restaurant that bears his name. The police also think that Gus might have killed Dan to get full ownership of the restaurant. Readers accompany Maggie on her visits to her great-uncle, her attempts to find Rachel, her date with Officer Brooks and her times with Gus who enjoys cooking for and being with her. Maggie wonders who killed Dan and why. She hopes that the police are wrong and neither Rachel nor Gus killed Dan. It is hard to put the book down until Maggie’s questions are answered, the murder is solved and Maggie chooses between Officer Brooks and Gus, the owner/ chef of DelVecchio’s.
The dialogue is too predictable and a bit too cute for my tastes. Very light reading.
Kind of silly
Fun new series with canines as the focus. Good writing entertaining story with predictable ending of course.
I am not a animal person, read the book anyway, it was sort of ‘dumb’ really, but it was an easy read and a clean story so…..if you want something to kill time with, go for it.
I read a lot of black ops book. This was a good change of pace and not at all intense
Kind of boring
enjoyed it very much
Light reading for a rainy day.
I did enjoy reading this book. It did keep you guessing until ALMOST to the end.
A clever and entertaining light read.
Well, it had hunky and wove a tail. It’s worth a read
good fast read
Enjoyed it and was good relaxing reading
It was entertaining but a little out there. However, I did enjoy it as mindless entertainment.
It was a little crazy.
Not wild about it. So much of it didn’t make sense. Not even close to being believable