Panthers Play for Keeps (Pru Marlowe Pet Noir Book 4) - A Gripping Mystery Novel for Cat Lovers & Crime Fiction Fans - Perfect for Cozy Reading Nights & Book Club Discussions

In this volume four of the series, we find Pru Marlowe training working dogs for the blind. She has a wonderful shepherd mix, named Spot. Spot is training with the goal of being a seeing eye dog. The person who may be acquiring Spot is an extremely wealthy man going blind from Macular Degeneration.The psychologist working with the man and his family as well as coordinating with Pru and Spot, is Laurel. She is smooth, sophisticated, and seems to have caught the eye of Pru's on and off again boyfriend, a detective named Jim.While out training Spot in the protected woods, Pru and Spot come upon a woman's body...something is very wrong though. Could this be a big animal killing? Or is it man's work once more?As the story evolves we are re-introduced to other characters from earlier volumes, Mr. Benzazi etc. He is a wealthy...well, you will have to figure out just exactly what he does.Pru has secrets, Spot has secrets, Benzazi and Laurel have secrets. Jim well he is complex. The largest secret may be Spot's future caregivers. That is if Spot goes there after all.This was a complex novel with psychological layers as well. It is a murder mystery without a doubt and may not be for the extremely cozy reader. I was compelled to keep the pages turning even though the worry about the predator's outcome kept rearing it's head.Excellent novel.