Unleashed: A Kate
Turner, D.V.M. Mystery
Eileen Brady
Poisoned Pen, Aug 4 2015, $25.95
ISBN 9781464203961
Owing a fortune in student loans,
veterinarian Dr. Kate Turner accepts a temporary position at the Oak Falls Veterinary
Hospital in Upstate New York. In spite
of her recent involvement in a murder case (see Muzzled),
Kate loves her new job and locale.
Kate becomes upset when
artist Claire Birnham,
the owner of one of her patients Toto the Cairn Terrier, apparently commits
suicide. The vet rejects the premise of
Claire taking her own life; as she would never orphan her beloved Toto. The police soon find evidence of a homicide
that leads to the arrest of Eugene Spragg, Kate’s kennel worker. Rebuffing the police premise that slow-minded
Eugene killed someone and ignoring the objections and warnings of police officer Luke Gianetti, Kate looks for motives
in others within Claire’s circle especially who gained from her death.
The second Kate Turner amateur sleuth is a thrilling whodunit
occurring in a picturesque Hudson River town.
The storyline combines jocularity (no reader will look at a gaggle of
geese in the same way) within a murder mystery in which the heroine’s retired
firefighting grandfather once again adds newness with his investigative
suggestions.
Harriet Klausner
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