Hounded

by June Whyte

Successful greyhound trainer and bumbling amateur sleuth Kat McKinley is at her wits’ end. Her gorgeous boyfriend Ben is interstate racing his dogs, her anti-everything hippie sister Liz and ex-con boyfriend Scott are making whoopee in her guest room, and nine of Liz’s raucous protester friends have set up camp on her front lawn. So, when Helen McKinley, aka Attila the Hun, her mother, flies into town on her broomstick and says she’s moving in for two weeks, Kat’s life goes from disastrous to crazy ridiculous. Can things possibly get any worse? Absolutely. While Kat’s at the track, someone decides to snuff out one of the protesters on her front-lawn. Her mother inadvertently gets high on a potent cache of marijuana cookies. And after Tater the Chihuahua finds the protester’s body under a load of sand, the police arrest Kat’s mother on suspicion of murder. And it doesn’t stop there. When another protester washes up dead in the Port river and racing greyhounds are inexplicably getting sick while the vets can’t work out why – Kat decides it’s time to keep her dogs safely at home and concentrate on unearthing the real murderer. After all, she seems to be the only one interested in springing her mother out of jail. Trouble is – the more questions Kat asks – the more people seem to die.

206 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 29, 2018

Reviews

[Robyn Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great read from June Whyte

June Whyte is one of the best chicklit, mystery writers around. With hippies camped in the backyard, Kat's mother, Attila the Hun, in her spare room and feuding with hippie, Tinkerbelle, activist sister, Liz refusing to speak to their mother, and Ben, the sexiest hero around 100 miles away, anything could happen. And it does when a body with Peace tattooed on its arm turns up buried in Kat's backyard and Kat's mother is arrested. Of course, Kat can't help trying to solve the murder and soon finds herself with another suspicious disappearance, two more bodies, thieves trying to steal her foster dogs and her best greyhound racers struck down by a mystery illness.

Once again, Whyte delivers a variety of colourful characters and list of likely suspects. Add to this a pack of loveable racing and adopted greyhounds and you have a light-hearted, romp of a read for a lazy Sunday afternoon.

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kat is a greyhound trainer. Her life is a chaotic mess: her boyfriend is out of town, racing his dogs; her sister and boyfriend are camped in her spare room, barely coming out for air; her sister’s hippie friends are camped out in the front yard; and now her mother, who they compare to Attila the Hun, is moving in for two weeks. Then people start dying, her mother is drugged with marijuana, and then arrested for murder. And then dogs start dying mysteriously. Kat tries to solve all the mysteries, gets warned, then kidnapped. Altogether a good story with some humor thrown in.