Eileen Brady

Unleashed Eileen Brady

Publisher Marketing: Dr. Kate Turner is happy with her new life in Oak Falls in upstate New York. Working as a relief veterinarian at a small house-call practice, she truly enjoys helping her patients. All that changes when client Claire Birnham is found dead, an apparent suicide. A talented artist, Claire had everything to live for: new job, Manhattan apartment, her Cairn terrier, Toto. As feisty as the "Wizard of Oz" s Toto, he and Claire were devoted to each other. Kate can t imagine Claire simply abandoning her pet. Was her death murder?Questions end when police arrest young kennel helper Eugene. The fragile friendship between Kate and police officer Luke Gianetti frays as she ignores his advice and keeps asking questions. House calls provide gossip and clues, some helpful, some not so much, as she treats her animal patients. Did Claire s recent insurance windfall prove too tempting for her hard-working and hard-drinking mother? What does trouble in the art gallery where Claire worked signal? How huge a grudge did heavy metal rocker A. J. hold against high school sweetheart Claire after she dumped him? Was Claire a threat to A. J. s rich new girl?Dr. Kate mixes real medicine with murder as she risks her life over Claire s death, aided by insights from a former fire investigator, a.k.a. her Gramps. "Unleashed" is just as irresistible as Dr. Kate s first adventure, "Muzzled."" Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2015 (EAN 9781464203947, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2015 pg. 38 (EAN 9781464203961, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 06/29/2015 (EAN 9781464203961, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Brady, Eileen MUZZLED is the first in the Kate Turner, D. V. M. mystery series for Eileen Brady. A veterinarian for over twenty-five years, Eileen lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband Jon, also a veterinarian, and several pets who won't get off her keyboard.