A Dog Lover's Mystery Series by Susan Conant

Holly Winter's life is going to the dogs, but that's just fine with her. She's a feisty, 30-something dog-lover, and her expertise in the breeding, training, and caring for canines is just one of her inbred talents. She's also a grand champion at tracking down criminals of the two-legged kind. When a dog owner is murdered at a training session, Holly enlists the victim's big Malamute to find the killer.

MURDER STRIKES. When Rose Engleman is found dead after a thunderstorm, lightning is blamed. But soon Holly Winter starts to think it wasn't an act of God that killed the elderly woman. Was it an act of vengeance? Jealousy? Hatred? Greed? Accompanied by her malamutes Rowdy and Kimi -- and her visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Leah -- Holly tracks down the truth, and discovers that a retired kindergarten teacher can have a surprising number of enemies.... A DOG LOVER'S MYSTERY.