Dog Show Demise by Avery Kent

Title: Dog Show Demise
Author: Avery Kent
Series: Bishop’s Landing Cozy Mystery #5
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Takes Place: Bishop’s Landing
Main Character: Annie Bishop
Other Characters: Maggie, Jake, Patricia, Ellie, Will, Mildred, Casey, Reece, Odette, Carlton, Allistair
Pets: Golden Retriever named Cookie & a German Shephard named Sarge
Stars: 3

This is the fifth book in the Bishop’s Landing Cozy Mystery Series. This book is set during a dog show. I love dogs, so I was really excited to read this book.

A Dog show comes to Bishop’s Landing and it is all fun and games until Annie finds the editor of a Canine Today dead in her office. With Jake’s suggestion, Annie finds herself enrolling her Golden Retriever, Cookie, in the dog show, so she can help investigate without suspicion. She discovers more going on at the dog show than meets the eye. Also we meet a new dog when Jake decides to foster a German Shepherd named Sarge.

I am enjoying the slow romance between Jake & Annie. And Casey has a new love interest. I am looking forward to see where this leads.

Because this is a dog show, a lot of time is devoted to figuring out how low people are willing to go to win a competition. People can get vicious when it comes to their dogs but who was vicious enough to kill? There are a lot of people with different motives for killing the victim. It took a few turns to reveal the killer, but it was so obvious to me that it didn’t surprise me. I kept waiting for it to take a different direction, but it didn’t. This book was ok and it kept my interest mainly because of the dogs and I do love the characters. I really enjoyed the introduction of Sarge. I like mystery with a lot of twists and turns with an ending that really takes me by surprise and I didn’t get this with this book.

I will be reading the next book because I do love the characters and I want to see what they are up to next.

I received this book free as part of an ARC and this review was given freely and is my honest opinion

Happy Reading,