Book 8 in the Subbing isn't for Sissies Series It's January in Reckless River, Washington-cold, dark, damp, and dismal. Stuck in a rut of routine, substitute teacher Barbara Reed wishes for change. It hits with the force of a hurricane. The high school principal's body is discovered in a remote cabin. Barb's drug cop boyfriend wants the case and the move to homicide that comes with it. But what about his drug-sniffing canine partner Lola? Will she be reassigned? Will Barb's entitled mutt Cheese Puff cope if she is? Or will he retaliate as only a small dog can? While Barb stresses, a member of the Cheese Puff Care and Comfort Committee suffers a stroke, and her shocking secret comes to light. Meanwhile, Barb's ex-husband drives a tour business to disaster, a talk-radio blowhard makes fresh enemies, and pearl power fails Mrs. Ballantine. When drug dealers capture Lola, everyone races to launch a risky rescue operation-an operation that hinges on Cheese Puff's devious nature.
Author Biography:
Carolyn J. Rose is the author of the recently released suspense novel Nightfall Bay. She also writes the popular Subbing isn't for Sissies series (No Substitute for Murder, No Substitute for Money, No Substitute for Maturity, No Substitute for Myth, No Substitute for Mistakes, No Substitute for Motives, No Substitute for Misinformation, and No Substitute for Momentum), as well as the Catskill Mountains mysteries (Hemlock Lake, Through a Yellow Wood, and The Devil's Tombstone). Other works include An Uncertain Refuge, Sea of Regret, A Place of Forgetting, and projects written with her husband, Mike Nettleton (The Hard Karma Shuffle, The Crushed Velvet Miasma, Drum Warrior, Death at Devil's Harbor, Deception at Devil's Harbor, and the short story collection Sucker Punches). She grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains, graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with Volunteers in Service to America, and spent 25 years as a television news researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. She's now a substitute teacher in Vancouver, Washington, and her interests are reading, swimming, walking, gardening, and NOT cooking.
