Hi all--it's been a while since I've posted (life interferes and all that :-)) but I wanted to share the Kirkus review for Poison and Pooches, the first in my new Dog-Sitting Mysteries. The series is a spin-off from my Maggy Thorsen Coffeehouse Mysteries. It features Sarah's niece, Arial, who inherits a house in the lovely -- and heretofore fairly murder-free -- town of Pacific Grove, CA, on the Monterey Peninsula. Arial was introduced in Murder a la Mocha and then appears again in the latest Maggy, Brew Unto Others. Poison and Pooches will be available on October 7.