FUR BOYS

When starving artist Lia Anderson stumbles upon a dead diva, it',s no walk in the dog park.Meet Buddy, Dasher, and Rory, three adorable fur boys often in the care of Hannah, the ever-efficient admin at Hopewell Music Academy, site of Lia&rsquo,s latest mural commission. Hannah can juggle anything the academy tosses at her, except the Machiavellian voice professor who owns the fur boys and whose demoralizing and career-crushing ways are the dark underbelly of the prestigious academy.When the professor is murdered, it&rsquo,s impossible to find someone who didn&rsquo,t want him dead. A mysterious informant is determined to involve Lia',s beau, Detective Peter Dourson, though it',s not Peter&rsquo,s case now that the Cincinnati Police Department has created a centralized unit to handle homicides. With Peter hamstrung by departmental politics, it&rsquo,s time for Lia and the dog park gang step in.(75,000 words)_,