Mad Dogs And Bagshaws

Ronald Bagshaw spent his entire redundancy payout at a country auction he only attended because it had a bar. What he bought, sight unseen, is The Laurels Boarding Kennels: eleven acres of Welsh thistle, forty-one leaking runs, a homicidal gander, a Great Dane nobody has collected in eighteen months, and a parrot with a filthy vocabulary. His twelve-year-old daughter Rosie, future crime writer, opens a notebook marked EVIDENCE. She is going to need it. The licence expires in September, and somebody wants them gone.