I am going to try to go through a few questions and/or requests for help that I have received from some Cozy Mystery readers. I have several queries to ask your help with. The first one comes from Betts. Betts writes:
"Can anyone remember or identify an author who wrote a mystery in, I think, late 1980s or 1990s about a woman who ran a tai chi or meditation studio and had a beautiful Akita? Would appreciate…loved the book."
We usually have a high rate of success because you all are really good about sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. So, here's hoping!
Thank you!
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Would it be “The Dog Who Knew Too Much (A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery) by Carol Lea Benjamin?
Second Diane’s suggestion. Here’s a description of the book:
The key to a beautiful woman’s tragic death is locked in a dog’s broken heart.
P.I. Rachel Alexander is stepping into a dead woman’s life. Hired by the young t’ai chi teacher’s grieving parents, Rachel is determined to find out why their apparently happy daughter jumped from the window of her Greenwich Village martial arts studio. Wearing Lisa’s clothes, studying with her mentor, meeting her friends, provoking her enemies, Rachel soon learns that even with her pit bull, Dashiell, at her side, the path to enlightenment is a dangerous place to be.
With the answer Rachel seeks as difficult to fathom as a Zen riddle, yet as close by as the victim’s sad-eyed Akita, one truth begins to unfold: Lisa never would have abandoned her dog without a cruel push. . . .
There you go, BB, the Akita belonged to the victim!
Diane, I believe you are correct. (I got hung up on Carol Lea Benjamin having a Pit Bull.)
Wow! Well done, people!
I love this series, and I thought I had all of them, but this is one that I’ve obviously missed. Shall have to go looking.
Thankyou from me, too.
Susan*, looks like you have some back-tracked reading to do!
Does sound right here as well. Hope we have been successful.
Andrea, I’m going to go find another Cozy Mystery reader’s question to post, and hope you all can solve that one as fast as you all solved this one.
Does anyone know if Margaret Binton Mystery series by Richard Barth are available for ebooks? My library doesn’t even have these books on the shelves any more. They are great cozy mysteries.
I don’t think so, Jan.
These are available in Audio:
A Ragged Plot
http://www.amazon.com/A-Ragged-Plot/dp/B006C2IG7O/ref=sr_1_11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1362110074&sr=1-11&keywords=richard+barth
Deadly Climate
http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Climate-Margaret-Binton-Mystery/dp/B004X4H0GG/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1362110074&sr=1-10&keywords=richard+barth
Also, one of his non-series books, Jumper, is available for Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/Jumper-ebook/dp/B004O0TY0Y/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1362110074&sr=1-4&keywords=richard+barth
There are websites available to track when books are Kindlized; however, there’s usually a delay because of Amazon.