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Books for Dog Lovers
Books Where Dogs Tell Their Story

Books for Dog Lovers:

Cormac: the Tale of a Dog Gone Missing, by Sonny Brewer, tells the amazing story of a runaway dog being found, over 1000 miles away from his home, thanks to the detective efforts of his owner and the help of strangers who interacted with him.
  

A solitary and distrustful woman in Michelle Herman’s Dog: a Short Novel adopts a puppy on a whim and discovers that caring for her canine companion forges emotional connections with humans as well.
  

Doggie Day Care Murder is the latest (and 15th) in Laurien Berenson’s mystery series featuring poodle lover Melanie Travis. While checking out a posh daycare for dogs, Melanie finds the body of the owner. Was the murderer a disgruntled client?
  

Author Susan Conant makes no bones about who her readers are: each of the 18 books in her series is subtitled “a dog lover’s mystery.” The newest is All Shots, in which Holly Winter, malamute trainer, goes searching for a lost dog and finds a corpse instead.
  

If you’re in the mood for a short ‘tail’ try Bark M for Murder, a collection of four short stories by different authors (including J.A. Jance) about detectives and the dogs that help them solve mysteries.
  

The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles brings together the well known American humorist’s stories, sketches and drawings of all things canine.
  

Ted Kerasote, an acclaimed nature writer, finds a stray, seemingly partly wild dog on a camping trip and brings him home. In Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Free Thinking Dog he intersperses insights from animal research with the story of their 13 year relationship.
  

Books Where Dogs Tell Their Story:

Dante, an Irish wolfhound, is just one of the narrators in Pam Houston’s Sight Hound. His owner is an independent woman who learns to find love in the face of her beloved pet’s death. Friends, relatives and other pets also help tell the story.
  

Chet, a dog who failed K-9 school, narrates the adventures that he and his detective partner go on in Spencer Quinn’s Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery. They doggedly pursue the case of a teenage girl who has disappeared.
  

Nose Down, Eyes Up: A Novel by Merrill Markoe features a dog who gives seminars to his canine buddies about how to manipulate their owners. Jimmy’s owner, Gil, has plenty of problems in his life, not least of which is that he develops the ability to understand ‘Dog.’ Jimmy and Gil deliver lots of laughs for dog lovers.
  

Author Peter Mayle, best known for his memoirs of life in Provence, offers readers a different sort of memoir in A Dog’s Life. Mayle’s beloved dog, ‘Boy,’ tells about the trials and joys of life in the French countryside in his own words. Drawings by cartoonist Edward Koren provide an additional dimension to the humor of the words.