Pooches, Pumpkins, and Poison — Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

USA Todayâ€"Bestselling Author: A widowed mom and animal-shelter volunteer has to put Halloween celebrations aside to hound a killer . . .
 
It's Halloween season, and the local animal shelter's pooch adoption manager, Missy Kingston, is excited to show off the available dogs at her Georgia town's Halloween festival. But when she discovers the festival's organizer dead in a pile of pumpkins, Missy has strong suspicions that it wasn't natural causes.
 
When Missy sets out to investigate the murder on her own, what she discovers could solve the case -- if she can elude a killer who's gone out of their gourd . . .