Autumn in Pleasant Hills, Texas is about sipping pumpkin spice lattes, costume contests, and filling trick or treat bags, but not this year. Because something wicked this way wags!

As southern and sassy Steely Lamarr, her chatty Chihuahua, and the Scrubadub gang organize the annual pet costume contest, they hit a wall when the contest judge—the town librarian—winds up dead. Between the pages of the beloved woman's journal, Steely discovers the quirky librarian may have met an untimely death through a connection on a dating app.

As the president of the Citizens on the Watch, Steely believes it's her civic duty, along with her motley crew, to assist the ever-so-hunky Officer Jackson and the Buckleville PD to bring a killer to justice.

Can Steely figure out who murdered the librarian and keep herself out of the crosshairs from a venomous villain?

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