Review: Sleeping Dogs Lie by Samantha Downing

BOOK STATS

Rating: ☆☆☆
Title: Sleeping Dogs Lie
Author: Samantha Downing
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Audience: Adult
Format: Audiobook
Narrators: Melanie Nicholls-King, Lindsey Dorcus
Length: 2 hours
Publisher: Audible Original
Release Date: April 1, 2021
Source: Audible

SYNOPSIS

From the internationally best-selling author of My Lovely Wife and He Started It comes a twisted, entertaining novella about a dog walker swept into a criminal investigation when her client winds up dead.

Shelby works as a dog walker in Northern California, and she’s just finished up her biweekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner—Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company—dead on the bathroom floor. As a detective interviews Shelby, a medical examiner inspects the body, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.

MY THOUGHTS

I really enjoyed the first two chapters of this three chapter novella. Samantha Downing delivers a signature thrilling murder mystery with an impressive attention to detail and and clever and compelling twist.

However, the killer’s motivations were so far-fetched, and her rationale took away from her cleverness in the third chapter.

Dog lovers will enjoy this story!