Parades, Perennials, and Premeditated Murder
(2026)(The fifth book in the Pupcakes and Paws Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Krista Sawyer
Perfect Garden Walk. A locked greenhouse. A body no one can explain. And a beagle who senses something the humans don’t.
Silverbrook is all smiles during the Garden Walk & Pet Parade when developer Leland Crowe is found dead inside a greenhouse sealed from the inside. The town calls it heatstroke. A tragic accident.
Dog trainer Maggie Harper knows better.
A bitter chemical tang lingers. Paw prints scar soil where nothing should have walked. One by one, the calmest dogs in town begin to change—staring at empty space, flinching at silent signals, obeying commands no one hears.
As Maggie digs beneath garden-club pleasantries, suspicion tightens around iron-willed club president Irene Prescott, who publicly battled Crowe, and Carla Munoz, the dog park activist who swore to stop his land grab. But this wasn’t a crime of passion.
It was conditioning.
Because someone in Silverbrook didn’t just plan a murder.
They trained it.
And if Maggie doesn’t stop them, she may be the next victim.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Silverbrook is all smiles during the Garden Walk & Pet Parade when developer Leland Crowe is found dead inside a greenhouse sealed from the inside. The town calls it heatstroke. A tragic accident.
Dog trainer Maggie Harper knows better.
A bitter chemical tang lingers. Paw prints scar soil where nothing should have walked. One by one, the calmest dogs in town begin to change—staring at empty space, flinching at silent signals, obeying commands no one hears.
As Maggie digs beneath garden-club pleasantries, suspicion tightens around iron-willed club president Irene Prescott, who publicly battled Crowe, and Carla Munoz, the dog park activist who swore to stop his land grab. But this wasn’t a crime of passion.
It was conditioning.
Because someone in Silverbrook didn’t just plan a murder.
They trained it.
And if Maggie doesn’t stop them, she may be the next victim.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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