I recently read a dog-oriented mystery book called "This Dog for Hire" by Carol Lea Benjamin. It's about a 30-something woman who decided to be a private investigator with her pitbull named "Dash" (since we have a dog named "Dash," the book was irresistible to me). Today's blog is about the book and how I felt about it.
MY TAKE - The storyline is about a gay artist who is killed by a hit-and-run driver. The detective, Rachel, and her dog, are hired by the artist's friend to find out who killed him and if there was something nefarious about his killing, because his award-winning dog was also missing. The story explores potential suspects and reveals different reasons why the dog went missing and who would kill the artist. About 2/3rds of the way into it, the reader is thrown a major twist, changing the direction of the investigation. You can tell that the story takes place in the 1990s because it involves an "answering machine tape" that becomes part of the investigation. So, keep that in mind! It's a good story, and once I got to the twist, then I was hooked.
ABOUT THE BOOK: She gets top billing. But he's the real teeth of the operation. In the search for a killer, they make the perfect team....
She's thirty-eight, too independent for most men's taste, and too suspicious for her own good. In her back-alley Greenwich Village cottage, private investigator Rachel Alexander has one ace in the hole: Dash, the devoted, barrel-chested pit bull terrier she once saved from certain death, and who is now about to return the favor.
Dash and Rachel are looking for a missing barkless champion basenji named Magritte, and for a killer. The basenji belonged to a struggling artist found dead on a downtown pier near a sign that said "don't be caught alone." As Rachel pursues a string of clues that take her from the SoHo art scene to the world of Manhattan's homeless to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, those words echo in her mind. For in an urban landscape where good friends are hard to come by and true lovers even harder, Rachel soon discovers how dangerous it can be to trust the wrong person. Unless, of course, that person is a dog...
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