Poisoned Pen Press Announces the July 7th Release of Hair of the Dog by Susan Slater

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - July 7, 2015 - PRLog -- Poisoned Pen Press announces the release of Hair of the Dog by Susan Slater. Hair of the Dog is available for sale at independent bookstores all over the country.

“…readers will enjoy the behind-the-scenes look at greyhound racing and retired-greyhound adoption.” ~Publisher’s Weekly

Synopsis: It sounds like some work and mostly play when United Life and Casualty sends its investigator Dan Mahoney to Florida. Five greyhounds –all heavily insured –were lost in a fire at the Daytona dog track.

So simple. Five dogs dead by smoke inhalation, bagged, tagged, and burned. Papers all in order. Ashes in specialty urns on the desk of Dixie Halifax, track and casino co-owner. In jail, a young employee charged with arson to cover a murder he’s blamed for committing.

Then the body of kennel owner Jackson Sanchez is found face down in a pool of blood, a knife stuck in his back. But Sanchez didn’t die from a knife wound. Someone has carved “thief” on his forehead. The blood pooled underneath his body isn’t his. Should Dan be looking for a second corpse? And the one man who can answer questions, the track vet, dies in a motorcycle accident.

Working this case is not as complicated for Dan as having his mother Maggie move into the FBI’s favorite mob slob haven in nearby Palm Coast, while his fiancée Elaine Linden, on sabbatical, works on a PI license. Perfect –the FBI can set Maggie up to spy on mom’s boyfriend who may be laundering cash in some geriatric mafia scheme in this follow-up to Flash Flood and Rollover.

Susan Slater is the author of the Ben Pecos series (Pumpkin Seed Massacre, A Way to the Manger, Yellow Lies and Thunderbird), a stand-alone (Five O'clock Shadow), a women's fiction novel (0 to 60), a para-normal short story in Rod Serling's commemorative Twilight Zone Anthology (Eye for an Eye), and the Dan Mahoney series (Flash Flood and Rollover) . Susan lives on the Atlantic coast and writes full-time.

Founded in 1997 by Robert Rosenwald (President and Founder), Barbara Peters (Editor-in-Chief), and their daughter Susan Malling, Poisoned Pen Press (http://www.poisonedpenpress.com/) is an independent publisher that delights in bringing you new mysteries each month.  Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Poisoned Pen Press is one of the largest publishers of hardcover mysteries in the world. Our authors and staff of devoted mystery readers are what make us different.

Titles are distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, Ingram wholesale, Baker & Taylor, and Brodart. Discover Mystery™ at: www.poisonedpenpress.com

Hair of the Dog : hardcover (ISBN: 9781464204180, $24.95) paperback (ISBN:  9781464204203,$14.95) large print (ISBN: 9781464204197,$22.95) and eBook editions (ISBN: 9781464204210, $9.99).

Author interviews, information, and/or advanced reader copy requests should be made to Tiffany M. White, Marketing Coordinator for Poisoned Pen Press at (480) 945-3375 Ext. 11.