📘🐕‍🦺Mac Faraday Series Vol 15 Release

Vanessa Bettencourt

5 days ago

2 min read

Best in Show. Worst possible timing.

Best in Murder by Lauren Carr

A Mac Faraday Mystery

A platinum-and-diamond collar vanishes at the Mid-Atlantic Classic. Two women connected to the show are dead. A champion Irish Wolfhound is missing. And Gnarly is loose in a hotel full of perfectly groomed egos.

Out October 13.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0H5CPLKZ8

5 Stars: a series that you shouldn't miss

A very satisfying end to the series where all volumes can be read as standalones, but for that extra layer of continuity that makes the characters friends we like to visit often, reading in order adds a crescendo of emotions.

Each volume has one or more murder mysteries to solve, sometimes very entangled with the characters' personal lives, sometimes because they stumble upon cases and can't let injustice remain unsolved. Not all volumes have themes that will please all readers, but I found that when the character stories weren't my favorite part, the mystery cases in that particular book made up for it.

I was team Mac all the way through (and the only character above him was Gnarly), but David also developed into a fun, responsible, and interesting POV.

I simply adored little Minerva in this book; among other children, she was my favorite with that big Wolfhound dog that she could actually ride eheh. The humor in this volume was contained and well balanced, giving us very fun imagery (in this dog show happening at the Spencer Inn, the most peculiar owners have the most hilarious dogs) and exasperated Jeff Ingles (manager at the Inn), who is no stranger to all sorts of unexpected scenarios that have passed through the Inn (during all volumes), will have to manage the dogs, but worse: their owners' absurd demands. Of course, Mayor Gnarly is on top of what happens.

I loved when characters get upset by Gnarly's unblinking, analyzing stare, but they still respect him as the Mayor. Eheheh.

Plot twists, slow start but lots of action towards the end, great family, community values from the good guys vs the greed, addiction, money, power and exploitation from the bad ones.

The good thing about this author is addiction, if we run out of books in one series, we can jump into one of her other series and still get a crossover with some characters showing up, like Mac's daughter being the main character of her own series, or Mac making appearances in Chris Matheson's books.

There are many elements for which I recommend this series but if you are a dog lover don't miss it. There was once Lassie in our childhood memories, now there is Gnarly.