About the Book
Book: Mabel Goes to the Dogs
Author: Susan Kimmel Wright
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release date: June 5, 2022
When Mabel finds herself sharing a thicket with a dead body while volunteering with canine search-and-rescue, her life has clearly once again gone to the dogs!
After losing her job at age forty-nine, Mabel thought she’d turned things around. Now, she’s doing good by volunteering and, surely, she’ll soon be a successful author, writing about her experiences. After solving two notorious, decades-old cold cases while serving as a historical society volunteer, she’s already getting invitations to appear on TV.
Her new assignment couldn’t be simpler. All she has to do is hide in the woods and let Millie the search dog practice finding her. But to her horror, Millie finds more than Mabel–there’s a dead body hiding in the same patch of brush. To make matters worse, Mabel’s maybe-boyfriend, suspended PI John Bigelow, has a dark history with the victim.
While struggling with maid-of-honor duties for best friend Lisa, a string of disasters created by handyman Acey, and a disagreeable new neighbor, can Mabel solve another murder in time to save John’s detective license–if not his neck?
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About the Author
Susan Kimmel Wright began her life of mystery in childhood, with reading. That led to writing kids’ mysteries and eventually to Medicine Spring with Mabel. A longtime member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, Susan’s also a prolific writer of personal experience stories, many for Chicken Soup for the Soul. She shares an 1875 farmhouse in southwestern PA with her husband, several dogs and cats, and an allegedly excessive stockpile of coffee and tea mugs.
More from Susan
I got stuck. When I was outlining my story for Mabel Goes to the Dogs, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do next. This isn’t unusual for me, or, I’m sure, many other authors. When it happens, I have to go search for inspiration—or at least, step away from my project for a bit and do something else till a fresh idea lands in my brain.
Luckily, I soon stumbled upon the Empty Frames podcast, which explored what was, at that time at least, the single largest property theft in the world—the 1990 art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Thieves impersonating police subdued the guards and over the course of the next eighty-one minutes methodically removed thirteen pieces of art then estimated at $200 million. That dollar valuation quickly escalated to between $500-600 million. The stolen artwork including paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas, and Manet, was never recovered and remains the highest-value museum robbery in history.
The museum has offered a $10 million reward and never stopped trying to find its missing art. Thirty-four years later, empty picture frames still occupy the walls where the irreplaceable, stolen paintings once hung.
The story was engrossing, and I soon started down a rabbit hole, learning more about art theft and art-theft detectives, such as Charley Hill, the subject of the book The Rescue Artist. Sadly, it’s been estimated that nine out of ten stolen artworks will never be recovered. But Hill defied the odds in managing to retrieve Edvard Munch’s famous work, The Scream, brazenly stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway on the eve of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. The Rescue Artist tells the story of the theft, as well as Hill’s wild quest to locate and retrieve The Scream.
After I resurfaced from my own odyssey through Empty Frames and The Rescue Artist, I felt re-energized and ready to write again. Every time I write a book, I learn new things, which I like to share with my readers. I always hope they’ll find them as fascinating as I do!
MY REVIEW
There is so much to love about this story so let’s start with the main character. Mabel is a volunteer who wants to help everyone out. She also is a mess at times with her insecurities, people pleasing need to make everyone happy and a desire to be a writer. She could easily write a book about her adventures whether it’s remodeling her grandma’s place or training dogs for search and rescue. It seems like a full life but what happens when she solves an old cold case and stumbles upon a dead body? Will people start wondering about her? Oh Mabel your curiosity might get you in trouble but you keep doing what you do best.
John is not having the best of times lately. He has been suspended as a PI and now is in the midst of a murder investigation. The only bright spot for him is his girlfriend Mabel. I love how he opens up to her about his past. It seems to help them grow closer. The mystery sure gets intense as bodies drop, and Mabel and John get deeper into an unexpected turn of events. The author gives readers plenty of action with arson, bullets flying and a mysterious hidden treasure that people are after. Get ready for plenty of suspects, deceit and greed in this story.
I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.
Blog Stops
Babbling Becky L’s Book Impressions, October 26
Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, October 27
Simple Harvest Reads, October 28 (Author Interview)
Texas Book-aholic, October 29
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, October 30
Artistic Nobody, October 31 (Author Interview)
Blogging With Carol, October 31
She Lives To Read, November 1
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, November 2
Guild Master, November 3 (Author Interview)
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, November 4
Holly’s Book Corner, November 5
Fiction Book Lover, November 6 (Author Interview)
For Him and My Family, November 6
Locks, Hooks and Books, November 7
Vicky Sluiter, November 8 (Author Interview)
Giveaway
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