Pawprints at the Crime Scene: A Small Town Animal Rescue Cozy Mystery with a Female Sleuth, a Smart Australian Shepherd , (Paperback)

<b>A missing woman. A trail of pawprints. And a rescue dog who knew the truth three days before anyone thought to ask him.</b> <p>When Maren Foley opens the door of Second Chance Animal Rescue on a Tennessee June morning, her Australian Shepherd Scout is waiting at the eastern fence with something in his mouth; not a stick, not a toy, but a woman's wallet containing $4,200 in cash, a burner phone with three deleted calls, and the ID card of Dana Cho, a forensic accountant who has been missing from Nashville for forty-eight hours. </p><p>Scout found her trail in the meadow beyond the rescue's fence. He followed it. He brought back what she dropped when she ran. </p><p>Dana Cho is not dead. But she is hiding somewhere in the rural Tennessee landscape surrounding Clover Ridge; because she discovered something in a regional bank's financial records that someone very powerful needs destroyed before it reaches the wrong hands. Two men are already searching the woodland. They have a three-day head start. And the trail is getting cold. </p><p>Maren has spent ten years running a rescue on the edge of town, reading animals the way other people read faces, building something from nothing through stubbornness and insufficient funding and the refusal to be told no. She knows what a frightened creature looks like when it comes to the edge of safety and can't quite get through the door. She knows that Scout has been telling her something since Monday morning and she should have listened sooner. </p><p>Now it's Thursday. Dana has been out there for three days. And the man who may be responsible for all of it has been sitting on the county animal welfare board for two years, facilitating the rescue's grant applications, and making himself indispensable to every community institution that trusted him. </p><p><b>Pawprints at the Crime Scene </b>is a warm, urgent, and deeply satisfying cozy animal rescue mystery. It's the kind of story that smells like Tennessee summer and pine cleaner and the specific hope of a rescue that believes in second chances. </p><p>For fans of pet-centred cozy mystery fiction, Clover Ridge and Second Chance Animal Rescue will feel like somewhere you've been and can't wait to return to. </p><p><b>Scout knew on Monday. Maren is catching up. Dana is running out of time</b>. </p><p>Pawprints at the Crime Scene is the eighth book in the Curious Cases series; each novella stands completely alone, no prior reading required. </p><p>If you love cozy mysteries with a clever rescue dog, a capable female protagonist, a Tennessee small-town community worth caring about, and a resolution that delivers real justice with genuine warmth; <b>SCROLL UP</b> and <b>START READING today.</b></p>

• Pawprints at the Crime Scene: A Small Town Animal Rescue Cozy Mystery with a Female Sleuth, a Smart Australian Shepherd , (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798197194930
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-16
• Page Count: 158