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A Midwinter’s Tail (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery)
by Bethany Blake
About the Book
A Midwinter’s Tail (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Kensington (November 27, 2018)
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1496717333
ISBN-13: 978-1496717337
Digital ASIN: B07B7C8XQY
To bark or not to bark . . .
Professional pet sitter Daphne Templeton loves the holidays in Sylvan Creek, Pennsylvania. And nothing gets her into the spirit more than the town’s annual Bark the Halls Ball. The whole community will be there to wag their tails, especially this year’s special guest—Celeste “CeeCee” French, founder of a national chain of pet care franchises, who’s returning home to announce plans for a bright new flagship store.
But not everyone’s celebrating CeeCee’s homecoming. Daphne’s friend Moxie Bloom, owner of Spa and Paw, a unique salon for people and their pets, has plenty to growl about. So when CeeCee is found face down under Sylvan Creek’s town Christmas tree, stabbed with a distinctive pair of professional-grade pet shears, suspicion lands squarely on Moxie. Despite Daphne’s promises to Detective Jonathan Black, she quickly reprises her role as amateur sleuth. Ably assisted by her basset hound sidekick, Socrates, she must hurry to prove her friend’s innocence before a killer barks again . . .
Includes recipes for homemade pet treats!
Guest Post by the Author
Recipe for a Cozy Christmas
The holidays are all about indulging the senses — especially taste. At least, that’s how I feel. Many of my memories center around traditional foods, like my mom’s corn pudding and her stuffing with — brace yourself — scrapple, an Amish-country meat product she substitutes in for sausage.
(I never knew scrapple in stuffing was weird until I was well into adulthood.)
My holiday food traditions grew when I married my husband, whose Polish family celebrates wigilia, a traditional Christmas Eve dinner featuring fish, pierogi and cabbage. A lot of cabbage. Possibly too much cabbage.
Not surprisingly, food plays a big role in my new holiday-themed mystery, A Midwinter’s Tail. The characters are always snacking or enjoying a good peppermint mocha latte. And there are treats for pets, too, and recipes, because everybody deserves a splurge at the holidays.
Do you ever make homemade pet treats? If not, and you have furry family members, you should give it a try!
Here’s a sneak preview of a recipe from A Midwinter’s Tail that your four-legged friend will love. Bone appetit!
Snowdrop’s Favorite Snicker Poodles
- 3 cups flour best suited to your dog’s diet (Whole wheat, barley, rice, sorghum… whatever works best.)
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup water
Preheat your oven to 375˚ and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour(s) and cinnamon. Add the honey, egg, and vanilla extract and stir everything together. Then, using a fork, incorporate scant amounts of water until the ingredients start to come together and form a dough. Gently knead the dough and roll it out onto a floured work surface until it’s about a quarter-inch thick.
This is the fun part. Get your favorite cookie cutters and make shapes, depending upon your mood and the season. (These don’t have to be holiday cookies!)
Bake until golden brown, about 10 to 12 minutes. Keep an eye on them, as they will burn quickly.
Make sure to cool them thoroughly before treating your pup. They will harden as they cool down.
About the Author
Bethany Blake lives in a small, quaint town in Pennsylvania with her husband and three daughters. When she’s not writing or riding horses, she’s wrangling a menagerie of furry family members that includes a nervous pit bull, a fearsome feline, a blind goldfish, and an attack cardinal named Robert. Like Daphne Templeton, the heroine of her Lucky Paws Mysteries, Bethany holds a Ph.D. and operates a pet sitting business called Barkley’s Premium Pet Care.
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