Central Kansas Library System

A cross-country road trip with the second Saturday Book Club goes afoul when the four women meet the author of a classic, beloved children's book at he Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas, and offer her a ride to Branson, Missouri.

Dress rehearsal for the PTA fundraiser is at its chaotic peak when one of the seven identical clowns cavorting on stage pulls out a gun and shoots the director, Corrinne Buldock. Molly Masters, also dressed as a clown, is a stunned and baffled witness to the killing. She wonders: which of her fellow performers, all of them respectable parents and teachers, can conceivably be a murderer?The rumor is that Corrinne and her old boyfriend split up . ....

Everybody agrees that talented mom Patty Birch is the perfect president to lead the Carlton Central School PTA to new accomplishments. Under her steady stewardship, the organization verges on winning a prestigious award. Her skills, however, are sorely tested when angry board members assemble to discuss a secret video that reveals their pettiness and ineptitude. Not long after the meeting adjourns, Patty's tenure is cut short by a knife-wielding killer.When...

Violets are blue.Roses are red.One of you bitchesWill soon be dead.Those lines weren't quite what greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters had in mind when she encouraged her weekend workshop students to write a bit of verse, anonymously. Eerily, within hours, one of her aspiring writers is murdered, apparently without rhyme or reason.Or so Molly thinks until a storm and a blackout isolate the group in their mountain retreat. Katherine the professor,...

Trouble returns for cartoonist Molly Masters when Preston Saunders, the husband of Molly's least-favorite person--Stephanie--is murdered in his and Stephanie's living room. An hour earlier, Molly and Preston had a terrible argument on Molly's front porch, when he confessed that he'd stolen Molly's one ribald cartoon, which won a contest in a porn magazine with Preston posing as cartoonist "Mike" Masters. Shocked at discovering her husband's body and...

What can possibly go wrong at the annual dog show? Allie Babcock and her life partner, Baxter McClelland, get more than they bargained for when they accept jobs at the Fort Collins, Colorado, annual dog show. Allie is training dogs in the agility competition. Her dear friend, Tracy Truitt, enrolls her stubborn, untrained Beagle in the competition and recruits Allie as his handler. Baxter is hired as a last-minute replacement to manage the Terrier...

With mixed feelings, Tera Westbrook puts her mother's house on the market. No sooner does Tera's realtor assure her that she won't need to deal with potential buyers, than she is ambushed at a grocery store by a couple who want her house on their cable show. The top seller at the realty brokerage pressures Tera to sign with him. As mayhem continues, her mother's ghost appears. Minutes later, they find the body of the house inspector. Someone closer...

Welcome to Creede, a lovely little western town in the Colorado Rockies. This year's renowned theater production stars an Australian Shepherd with stage fright, two backstage love triangles, a shifty stagehand...and a real-life murder.Dog therapist Allie Babcock has grasped the brass ring of work assignments-stunning scenery, the love of her life at her side, and stage-training a brilliant Australian Shepherd and an adorable Pug. The dogs are starring...

Dog Therapist Allie Babcock is back...and she has a bone to pick with a killer...

Allie's dog therapy practice in Boulder, Colorado is thriving. Her divorcing neighbors, Edith and Trevor, hire Allie to decide which one gets custody of Shogun, their silky terrier. And another neighborhood pair, Cassandra and Paul, need help with a fostered Siberian husky and her puppies.

Life seems to be ambling along quite nicely for Allie...until she finds

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