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October 16, 2012

Set in Baltimore, with a cast of gritty characters, Murder in the Dog Park – Bad Girl. Good Cop. Bad Dog — a novella by Jill Yesko — provides a satisfying adventure with undertones of class struggles between the Haves and the Have Nots.

Murder in the Dog Park features just enough mystery, just enough law-enforcement drama for genre lovers, and dead-on dialogue.

Murder in the Dog Park book coverPerhaps because tough-chick heroine Jane Ronson is wrought with such raw honesty, this nice-girl reader struggled a bit with Jane’s rampant anger in almost every situation.

Jane is a crabby, crabby, crabby girl. She approaches pretty much everyone and everything with a @#$@ YOU! attitude from the get-go.

However, there is a seed of something else inside Jane that we see shift as the book takes us through the what happens when Jane’s cousin, a friend since childhood and only family she has, gets framed for the murder of a boy at a local dog park.

The book opens with Jane finding the victim’s body at the dog park and ends when (most of) her brand of justice is done.

Typically, I am NOT a genre fiction reader. I’m more of a high-concept, 20th-century fiction girl.

That said, I enjoyed Murder in the Dog Park on many levels:

  • Humor
  • Action
  • Realism of character
  • Dogs (of course)

With all the distractions in my life, I have a hard time concentrating to read. Murder in the Dog Park grabbed and HELD my interest.

It’s a quick read that’s crafted well. I noticed in particular Yesko’s choices of verbs and sentence structure, which give the story a certain feel and pace, when so many other books meander.

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Murder in the Dog Park by Jill Yesko

Paperback: $12.99

At home, Yesko has a red / white basset hound named Jasper, but the book features a black / white bull terrier named Archie, so a portion of book sales will benefitbull terrier rescue group.

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Rather than our usual random drawing giveaway, the first person to post a comment asking for the book … gets it.

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FTC DISCLOSURE

The author and I have a mutual friend, who introduced us. Jill Yesko sent me a free review copy of the book, but I was not paid to write this review.

 

 

 

 

About the Author Roxanne Hawn

Trained as a traditional journalist and based in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA, I'm a full-time freelance writer for magazines, websites, and private clients. My areas of specialty include everything in the lifestyles arena, including health and home, personal finance and other consumer interests, relationships and trends, people and business profiles ... and, of course, all things pet related.

I don't just love dogs. I need them in my life. Seriously.

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