Murder, She Barked (Paws and Claws Mystery, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Dec 11, 2024 Kelly (Maybedog) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: what-female-protagonist, how-audiobook, what-dogs, what-mystery, what-mystery-cozy, when-not-mm-soon-mystery

4.5 stars

Oh I want to live in Wagtail!

I enjoyed this enough that I didn’t remember to take notes. Dogs were all through it which was so refreshing. So many cozy mysteries have a token dog so they can put one on the cover and sell more books. This story takes place in a companion animal lover’s dream world.

The mystery was good. The sheriff was young and brand new. It made sense why he was okay with an amateur detective doing a very little bit of the sleuthing although of course she did way more 4.5 stars

Oh I want to live in Wagtail!

I enjoyed this enough that I didn’t remember to take notes. Dogs were all through it which was so refreshing. So many cozy mysteries have a token dog so they can put one on the cover and sell more books. This story takes place in a companion animal lover’s dream world.

The mystery was good. The sheriff was young and brand new. It made sense why he was okay with an amateur detective doing a very little bit of the sleuthing although of course she did way more than he wanted. There were lots of suspects and at the end things weren’t out of left field but were a little surprising as they should be. I had no idea whodunnit.

The characters were fun for the most part, quirky small town characters and annoying big city people. I did feel bad for Ben and he seemed like a good guy. But the MC never talked about loving him or feeling for him. She wasn’t very nice to him at points when he didn’t deserve it. Other than one conversation where he was trying to be a good guy and came off as an ass, he was only guilty of being boring and having low affect. He kind of sounded like he might have had mild autism because he was so clueless about communication.

Cold water and hypothermia are more dangerous than moving someone. They can kill within minutes. But the characters didn’t seem worried and left s guy in way longer than he needed to be. This was in the mountains because it was near a ski lift so the water would have been run off and thus freezing. They should have known better.

I am eager to read the next book in the series.

The reader, Jeanie Kanaley, was horrible. The accent of the grandmother was excellent sometimes but inconsistent. But the big issue is that many of her inflections and intonations didn’t fit the way the words were being used in the sentence or the sentence itself in the paragraph. Like she sounded surprised when the character found a leash she was looking for in a normal place or put emphasis on the wrong word in the sentence. It got worse and worse to the point it was almost every other sentence and I almost couldn’t listen any more. I only did because the book was so good. ...more

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May 16, 2022 Roxann rated it really liked it

Shelves: cozy-mystery, dogs

From the cover: Holly Miller's life has gone to the dogs. She has no job, her boyfriend's former flame is sniffing around, and a scruffy but loveable Jack Russell Terrier is scattering crumbs all over her borrowed car. Just when she thought things couldn't get worse, a troubling phone call about her grandmother sends her rushing home to the family inn on Wagtail Mountain. The staff—and a frisky Calico kitten named Twinkletoes—adopts Holly and her new dog on arrival. But someone in this friendly ...more

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Dec 03, 2013 Diane ~Firefly~ rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery, dog

I liked the characters, the town and the pets, so I'm looking forward to this series continuing. It did suffer a little from first book syndrome and having to explain everything. Also, no one seemed that broken up by the murders, which was a bit surprising. But I think it will pick up and I'm looking forward to the next one. ...more

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May 02, 2017 Mary Ann rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If you had a chance to start over, would you? Holly gets a frantic call from her Oma's friend that sends her back home to Wagtail. Only on the way, she acquires a dog and witnesses a car going over the edge. When she gets to Wagtail she finds that it has changed a lot and her dog is welcome at her Oma's Inn. She then gets involved in a mystery of who killed Sven and Jerry. She also becomes reacquainted with old friends.

It was a good story and enjoyable. things moved along well and I felt that ...more

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Apr 17, 2014 Kimberly rated it liked it

Shelves: cozy-mystery

Good first edition to a new series. I'm a really big fan of the author's Domestic Diva mysteries so my expectations were a little high. I enjoyed the small town setting, the inn and main characters- especially Holly, Oma and the cast of fun pets. I think the book may have contained a lot of extra characters that didn't quite pertain to the current storyline, especially getting use to a new series. I also didn't care for Holly's boyfriend. Their relationship didn't seem believable at all. Overall ...more

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