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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    August 2011
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Full Series List in Order

A Cat Lover's Mystery

1 - Scratch the Surface (Jun-2005)

A Dog Lover's Mystery

1 - A New Leash on Death (Sep-1990)
2 - Dead and Doggone (Dec-1990)
3 - A Bite of Death (Apr-1991)
4 - Paws Before Dying (Aug-1991)
5 - Gone to the Dogs (Jun-1992)
6 - Bloodlines (1992)
7 - Ruffly Speaking (Mar-1994)
8 - Black Ribbon (Dec-1994)
9 - Stud Rites (May-1996)
10 - Animal Appetite (Mar-1997)
11 - The Barker Street Regulars (Feb-1998)
12 - Evil Breeding (Mar-1999)
13 - Creature Discomforts (Apr-2000)
14 - The Wicked Flea (Mar-2002)
15 - The Dogfather (Feb-2003)
16 - Bride and Groom (Feb-2004)
17 - Gaits of Heaven (Oct-2006)
18 - All Shots (Nov-2007)
19 - Brute Strength (Aug-2011)

Book List in Order: 20 titles



  • A BONE TO PICK At dog obedience trials, fighting is common--especially between owners. But Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter is shocked when a mere training session ends in murder. Between sit, heel, and the final long down, a retired doctor takes...




  • DOGGED BY DEATH Holly Winter had her hands full with one dog: Still, when therapist Elaine Walsh is found dead, Holly eagerly adopts the orphaned Kimi--and vows to teach her some manners. But when questions arise about Elaine's death--following clos...



  • MURDER STRIKES When Rose Engleman is found dead after a thunder-storm, lightning is blamed. But soon Holly Winter starts to think it wasn't an act of God that killed the elderly woman. Was it an act of vengeance? Jealousy? Hatred? Greed? Accompani...



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    Normally Holly Winter wouldn't be caught dead in a place like Puppy Luv -- a mall pet shop that's no doubt an outlet for the puppy mill industry and a hotbed of forged papers, broken promises and mistreated animals. But a hot tip on a malamute pup su...



  • THROWN A BONE--BY A KILLER Holly Winter's a Dog's Life columnist on the wrong side of thirty, a canine-loving detective sniffing out crime and corruption on the streets of Cambridge. Holly is a dog's best friend--and murder's worst enemy.... If...



  • Holly Winter's a Dog's Life columnist on the wrong side of thirty, a canine-loving detective sniffing out crime on the streets of Cambridge. Holly is a dog's best friend-and murder's worst enemy.... They might be less famous than guide dogs for th...



  • IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A DOG.... Canine-loving detective Holly Winter is a columnist for Dog's Life magazine. She thinks a week at Waggin' Tail, a camp for canines in the scenic Maine woods, will be a vacation in pet heaven. So does Rowdy, her cha...



  • MURDER IN THE FIRST PEDIGREE Everyone thought that dog show judge James Hunnewell was dead--after all, the aging and ailing man had been out of the dog show circuit for years. But he turns up, alive and ready to judge, at the Alaskan Malamute Nati...






  • MURDER UNLEASHED Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter, challenged to write about liwnan behavior, sinks her teeth--and those of her beloved Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Mimi--into two mysteries. Eighteen years ago publisher Jack Andrews succumbed to ...



  • A DIFFERENT BREED OF MURDER Every week Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter and her beloved Alaskan malamute, Rowdy, visit the Gateway Nursing Home to spread cheer among the senior residents. Yet shortly after meeting ninety-year-old Althea Battlefie...



  • DEADLY PEDIGREE Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter has just landed a plum contract to write a book on Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge's legendary pre-World War II dog shows. Holly arranges to interview one of the last living participants in those fabul...



  • A DOGGED KILLER When Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter regains consciousness atop a cliff in Acadia National Park, she has no idea who she is. Not even the arrival of two beautiful and oddly friendly dogs, who happen to be her own Alaskan malamute...



  • Holly Winter's malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, are as delightful a pair of canine companions as anyone could ask for. Less faithful is her ex-lover who left her with a bitter heart and over-priced therapy sessions. Add a bout with amnesia and trepidation ...



  • It's an offer dog handler Holly Winter can't refuse: train wiseguy Enzio Guarini's new Elkhound puppy, Frey. But can she ignore the fact that Guarini's killed so many people even the FBI's lost count? Hardly. One day into training and Guarini's right...



  • New England's #1 dog trainer Holly Winter is set to marry veterinarian Steve Delaney (a Best of Breed himself). But the wedding plans have been spoiled by murder. And Holly's taking it personally. So far all of the victims have been female dog lovers...



  • When mystery author Felicity Pride stumbles upon a gorgeous gray Chartreux snuggled up against a gentlemanly corpse (in her own vestibule!), she's determined to solve the crime--just like her own fictional sleuth would do. Naturally she wants to know...



  • Poor Dolfo. It wasn't the golden Aussie huskapoo's fault he wasn't housebroken. Blame it on Ted and Eumie, the overmedicated, overanalyzed, superdysfunctional New Age couple who couldn't bring themselves to restrain their dog's free spirit with colla...



  • Holly the malamute trainer isn't the only Holly Winter in town, and Holly number two is a dog hater. Now, a third Holly Winter has turned up. Unfortunately, this last one is a corpse that Holly number one discovers while searching for a missing Siber...






  • When Dog’s Life columnist Holly Winter rejects applicants who want to adopt homeless dogs, she makes a lot of enemies. In dogs Holly trusts, and the dogs she trusts most are her beloved malamutes, Rowdy, Kimi and Sammy. But right now she could use ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Susan Conant has published 20 books.

Susan Conant does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Brute Strength, was published in August 2011.

The first book by Susan Conant, A New Leash on Death, was published in September 1990.

Yes. Susan Conant has 2 series.