It's Halloween in Wagtail, the premier resort for people who vacation with their pets, and that means midnight hayrides, dog and cat costume contests, trick-or-treating for four-legged pets and two-legged kids, and a spooky lantern-lit ghost walk through the town. And this year, a team of ghost hunters have arrived to film a TV show about the haunted Wagtail Springs Hotel. Holly Miller doesn't believe in ghosts. So when her rascally Jack Russell Terrier, Trixie, and her kitten, Twinkletoes, find a young woman drowned in two feet of water, behind the Wagtail Springs Hotel Holly knows there isn't a ghost of a chance that it was an accident. Turns out more than one person in Wagtail has a skeleton in their closet. There's no time for Holly to be a fraidy cat--she has to catch a killer before the witching hour arrives . . . The second spirited mystery in theNew York Timesbestselling Paws & Claws series. Wagtail, Virginia, the top pet-friendly getaway in the United States, is gearing up for a howling good Halloween-until a spooky murder shakes the town to its core.. Holly Miller doesn't believe in spirits, but the Sugar Maple Inn is filled with guests who do. The TV series in development,Apparition Apprehenders, has descended on Wagtail's annual Halloween festivities to investigate supernatural local legends, and Holly has her hands full showing the ghost hunters a scary-fun time. But the frights turn real when Holly's Jack Russell, Trixie, and kitten, Twinkletoes, find a young woman drowned in the Wagtail Springs Hotel's bathhouse-the spot of the town's most infamous haunting. The crime scene is eerily similar to the creepy legend, convincing Holly that the death wasn't just accidental. Now she'll have to race to catch a flesh-and-blood killer-before someone else in town gives up the ghost... Delicious recipes for owners and pets included!