A Dead Man and Doggie Delights Review by Aleksa Baxter

This review contains spoilers for the book.

So, for the most part, I am not a fan of first-person when it comes to writing. Mainly because it done wrong it can make the MC come off as unbearable, boring or a combination of the two. The latter is the issue with this book. Maggie May is the MC and she has just moved into the new town, which I can’t remember the name but there was a whole speech about how it and the surrounding areas got their names, to help out her grandfather, who doesn’t seem to need her help, with her New Foundland dog, Fancy. She is going to open a barkery, we get a whole speech about how it was a play on words for bakery because the author doesn’t trust us to see that on our own I guess, and cafe with her best friend, Jamie. They have employed a surly teenager named, Katie, who hates dogs apparently so why she is working somewhere that would have dogs in and out a lot of the time is beyond me. But ten bucks says as this book goes on Maggie will realize she misjudged Katie like always happens in this book.

Oh yes, there is a playboy named, Luke, making the moves on both Katie, who is seventeen but that's okay because she’ll be eighteen in two months, and Jamie. And the MC’s love interest is a cop named Matt who was her first boyfriend. Does this make this a second chance romance? Probably but I don’t care all that much because this book is boring as hell.

Maggie finds a body in the woods behind her grandfather’s house, the same man her grandfather had threatened the day before at gun point because he barked at his granddaughter and Fancy. The grandfather doesn’t understand why Matt is asking for the gun, which he keeps stored in his unlocked truck. He explains this to Maggie and Matt after saying he sees no reason to keep his shotgun in a gun safe because by the time he gets to it he’ll be dead or whoever he needed to shoot would be gone. What the gun is going to do for him in the damn truck and not within reach in that case I will never know. But I guess it makes it easier for the real murderer to frame him if he doesn’t have to work for it.

Also, the neighbor had his head bashed in by a baseball bat that was given to Maggie’s grandfather. I guess that was also in his truck, but I will never know because I am too bored to finish reading this book. I might go back to it later and try again but for now I am going to leave it on chapter seventeen and skip ahead to the end to find out who the murderer is and it’s Katie. So I was wrong about Maggie learning not to judge people so quick.