Roll Over and Play Dead

By Joan Hess

Book Overview

Murder is going to the dogs. . . Bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy has donned another hat (or is that a collar?)-as a petsitter extraordinaire. Her furry charges are Miss Emily Parchester's beloved basset hounds, Nick and Nora, and two very good dogs they are. Everything is just ducky...until they vanish. Other neighbors' pets have also disappeared, and no doubt a dognapper is on the prowl. . . Switching to her sleuthing chapeau, Claire quickly locates the shabby abode of Newton Churls, who runs a black market in stolen animals. But instead of a pen filled with purloined pooches, Claire finds one very dead Newton-and it appears his own pit bull terriers did him in. Or did they? Claire smells a human rat behind the brutal murder. And mysteriously, Nick and Nora are still missing. Now Claire is doggedly determined to find them...and run a killer to the ground.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312988281
• ISBN13: 9780312988289
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Joan Hess is Light and Fun

I always enjoy a Joan Hess book and this one is highly entertaining. She is able to tackle serious issues in an amusing way which brings the subject up in one's mind, but with a very large dose of entertaining mystery and lots of laughs. This is very good light reading with refreshing humor that makes you laugh out loud. She is one of my favorite authors.

Not her best, but still good!

Roll Over & Play Dead reveals Hess as her usual entertaining, witty self, but this time it's with a twist: she takes on the controversial issue of animal testing. Most of the general public really doesn't know (and may not want to know) what goes on in the world of animal testing. I do know; I've been in some animal testing labs. The world of animal testing is much uglier & more unconscionable than animal research scientists would have you believe. Hess always writes a good story, and this time she includes a worthy cause that definitely needs more press. I'm impressed that she tackled the issue!