"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...

"Even though she's unlicensed as an investigator, when someone from the local animal shelter approaches Ginny Mallard about looking into potential embezzlement, she convinces her bartender friend Teddy Tonica to help her once more. They soon discover that something is disturbing the animals at the shelter at night. And when a dead body is found at the shelter, the stakes are raised. With the help of Ginny's pet shar-pei puppy and Tonica's tabby cat,...