Scent of Danger — Doranna Durgin

smells like SOMETHING'S ROTTEN...

The average crazy day for a vet like Dale Kinsall is a waiting room of furry patients and a staff of colorful eccentrics who like to meddle. But anonymous notes? Actually, make that anonymous rhymes? At first, he thought they were a joke -- some kind of game. Now the hint of menace is palpable.

Whoever is leaving the notes has full access within the locked doors of the clinic. Odder, the notes seem to coincide with a wave of Hanta fever, spreading outside Flagstaff. When the love interest in Dale's life, Laura, contracts the fever and the strange notes pile up, Dale knows he's running out of time. But thanks to a clue courtesy of his beagle -- who has a nose for trouble that surpasses that of his human companion -- Dale makes a shocking discovery....