While standing in for a fellow vet at a charity dog show, Jessica Popper is pulled into a murder mystery that proves that Hollywood is really a dog-eat-dog world.

Veterinarian Jessica Popper is basking in newlywedded bliss when neighbors beg her to investigate the suspicious death of the "king of the corporate jungle", Linus Merrywood. On stormy Solitude Island, in Peconic Bay, off the eastern end of Long Island, Jess feels as if she has walked into an old-fashioned game of Clue: a butler named Jives, and assistant named Scarlett, teatime in the conservatory, and a house that has secret passageways, moving...

Heading to Hawaii for a conference, veterinarian and amateur sleuth Jessica Popper suddenly finds herself once again embroiled in murder, when the body of an ambitious young reporter whom Jess had befriended washes up on a local beach and the unknown killer believes that Jess may know too much about the crime.

When the heir to one of North Fork's most prestigious wineries is found murdered and one of her closest friends becomes the prime suspect in the crime, veterinarian Jessica Popper turns sleuth to find the killer, all the while dealing with her menagerie of pets and her live-in boyfriend Nick Burby.