The Howl Books

This is a fun and funny mystery, narrated from a canine point of view, written for adults (PG-13) with a love of animals and their special quirks. After a few tough years, Taser finally has a safe home and a loving master in an upscale Scottsdale, Arizona neighborhood. When a woman is murdered on his street, this Black Labrador suddenly faces the loss of everything he's struggled a lifetime to gain. Taser must find the killer or return to the harsh world of the county dog pound. He's aided by his buddy, Meatloaf, and a colorful pack of neighborhood dogs. They struggle with their limited human vocabulary and their fractured knowledge of the world. Other obstacles include new alpha dog rivals, old deadly enemies, and a menacing coyote population from the adjacent Arizona desert. In the end, Taser must decide how much he will risk to save his world.

This is a fun and funny mystery for Young Readers, narrated from a canine point of view, written with a love of animals and their special quirks. After a few tough years, Taser finally has a safe home and a loving master in an upscale Scottsdale, Arizona neighborhood. When a woman is murdered on his street, this Black Labrador suddenly faces the loss of everything he's struggled a lifetime to gain. Taser must find the killer or return to the harsh world of the county dog pound. He's aided by his buddy, Meatloaf, and a colorful pack of neighborhood dogs. They struggle with their limited human vocabulary and their fractured knowledge of the world. Other obstacles include new alpha dog rivals, old deadly enemies, and a menacing coyote population from the adjacent Arizona desert. In the end, Taser must decide how much he will risk to save his world.

Taser and Meatloaf's world is turned on its head when the recession finally hits their rich Scottsdale subdivision. Money problems filter down and disrupt the two Labrador's lives. Their master, Robert, struggles to make his house payments, while Taser struggles to understand money and the economy in an effort to help. Criminal activity arrives in their declining neighborhood, along with a new alpha-dog challenger to Taser. The dogs try to cheer up Robert by finding him a new mate, but suddenly a new challenge pops up: Dogs are disappearing from their homes. When the pack hears a plaintive cry for help in the form of The Twilight Howl, they must join forces with their former coyote enemies to save one of their own. PG-13 rated.

When an injured stray dog shows up at Taser’s house looking for help, Taser jumps in with all four paws. But the stray is not what he claims to be and brings trouble to Taser’s master. Meanwhile, the neighborhood has its own problems when a home invasion and robbery put a human friend’s life at risk. Taser and his pack go to work in hopes of solving the crime. It won’t be easy. The spunky Lab must avoid an irate neighbor and a new predator stalking neighborhood pets if he hopes to succeed.

When a new dog comes to stay in Taser’s neighborhood, Taser learns the sad pooch has a problem that might be connected to Taser’s problem—a dead body that appears, then disappears. Taser sets out to solve both mysteries, but becomes part of the problem instead of the solution. Meatloaf would have helped his buddy, but he’s got his own problems acting out when master Robert disappears. No worry, the pack pitches in to help after the strange night of...Howling through Darkness.

There’s a new blonde in town. She’s trouble, but also in trouble. This Yellow Lab’s master has been murdered and she’s looking for help. Taser jumps in with all four paws, but soon he’s over his head. An old enemy appears to complicate the murder investigation, while Taser finds himself falling in love and spending too-much time away from home. In his absence, things break down in the neighborhood. Taser enlists Meatloaf to help, but Meatloaf has his own problems breaking his seed pod addiction. The pack arrives to help, but in the end, it’s Taser who must save the day or lose everything.

When Loper is adopted from a last-chance shelter in crumbling Detroit, he hopes to find understanding friends in his new city of Scottsdale, Arizona. But Loper is a Pit Bull, and Pit Bulls are Taser’s worst nightmare. Loper tries to convince the neighborhood canines he’s a good dog, but runs into his own problems when he is taken from his home, again. Taser and Meatloaf want to help, but they get busy with a new murder investigation that threatens an old friend. For a while everyone fends for themselves, until finally they join forces to Howl Less and Wag More.

A new dog in the neighborhood brings trouble for Taser, Meatloaf, and their pack of friends. More problems they don't need. They already have their paws full with an attempt to ban them from the park. Taser decides the best solution is human money, and he sets out to get a lot of it. He gets help, and big trouble, from the most unlikely sources. They aren't the only ones after cash. When word of easy money gets out, canines get dognapped and threatened with death. The pack soon discovers nothing good comes from riches, and the experience doesn't come cheap.

It was supposed to be a quiet weekend getaway for the neighborhood dogs and their owners. But when Taser, Meatloaf and the rest of the pack arrive at a cabin in the woods, nothing goes as planned. First, a storm and rising creek waters cut them off from civilization. Then, on a dark and stormy night, bodies start hitting the floor. It’s up to the dogs to find the killer among them before he strikes again. Sadly, the suspect list includes the humans they love and depend on. In the middle of their investigation, a four-legged killer arrives to stalk the pampered pets. Their only hope is to answer the Howl of the Wild.

Something evil is stalking the dogs’ quiet little neighborhood. Taser and Meatloaf are thrown right in the middle of it when fire forces them out of their house. They’ve faced adversity before, but this challenge tests their resolve. The two Labs struggle to protect their master while helping Sarge with his own problem; a lost human friend. The pack does their part to assist, but in the end, the battle is between good and evil.

When Sasha, one of the neighborhood dogs, loses her master, she visits Taser to beg for help finding him. At first seems like a simple lost human problem. Then bodies turn up and dogs disappear. Taser enlists the help of the pack and a new friend, Willie Whippet, to help him stop a second neighborhood murder. Just when they figure out the killer’s plan, a new problem throws them off the scent. But the killer has a another plan. He knows that Dead Dogs Don’t Howl.