{"id":4773,"date":"2025-11-13T15:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:45:37","slug":"the-dog-walkers-detective-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4773","title":{"rendered":"The Dogwalkers\u2019 Detective Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A heartfelt animal cozy akin to David Rosenfeld\u2019s Andy Carpenter series and Rita Mae Brown\u2019s Sneaky Pie Brown books, along with all the sophistication of <em>Only Murders in the Building.<\/em><\/strong> The small, coastal town of Framstone is dog heaven, with walkers providing their pooches with rural strolls, treats galore, and smells most intriguing. Until Charles Boardman is dragged deep into the woods by Ruby, his Staffordshire bull terrier. Has Ruby found a half-eaten burger? Try the corpse of a former cop who now owns a bar. It takes only milliseconds for the information to spread among the dog-walking community, with mid-thirtyish Charlie\u2014who grew up in Framstone and has only recently returned\u2014at the center of the investigation. But the story doesn\u2019t end there. Charlie receives anonymous threats, and, even more frightening, another body surfaces on the beach. Can Charlie resolve the mystery and come out alive? Hogan\u2019s prose is delightful, full of humor and wonderfully clever. This reader\u2019s only wish is that this book is the first in a series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a9 2025 <em><strong>firstCLUE Reviews<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/gmail.us21.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=fdc4244772426f53bc39aadc9&#038;id=46d155883c\">Subscribe to our newsletter today!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4759\" src=\"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/First-Clue-Logo-scaled-e1762539544221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"31\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heartfelt animal cozy akin to David Rosenfeld\u2019s Andy Carpenter series and Rita Mae Brown\u2019s Sneaky Pie Brown books, along with all the sophistication of Only Murders in the Building.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,76,180,55],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-cozy","tag-debut","tag-mystery-detective"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Doggy-387x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Doggy.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}