Eight Dogs Flying — Karen Ann Wilson

Love's a bitch, as Samantha Holt knows from a recent heartbreak. That's why she moved to the calmer climes of Paradise Cay, Florida, where doctoring cats and dogs, as a vet's technician, helps keep her mind off of lesser, two-legged creatures. She expected peace and quiet. What she didn't expect is that her temperamental but unnervingly attractive boss, Dr. Louis Augustin, would have a talent for trouble--and that playing Watson to his Holmes would turn out to be a dangerous part of her job description.

When Dr. Augustin is given the task of putting down a greyhound that has inexplicably turned vicious, he hesitates--the doomed animal is one of his ex-wife Rachel's champion racers. And the dog's attacks are just one in a series of misfortunes that have recently befallen her. Then the man she held responsible for her bad luck is killed--and Rachel is accused of murder. To clear her, Augustin and Samantha must go deep into the high-stakes, low-life world of dog racing ...