Standing in for a fellow vet at a charity dog show has Jessica hitting the road with her faithful one-eyed Dalmation, Lou, and her tailless Westie, Max, for the palatial summer estates of Long Island's fabled East End. Whe she arrives, the posh seaside community is crawling with stars eager to take best in show for their beloved pooches. But it's murder most tacky when a celebrity photographer is felled by a giant ice sculpture at a $500-a-plate fund-raiser. The question isn't who wanted the sleazy paparazzo dead -- it's who didn't. Unable to resist the scent of the hunt, Jess is soon investigating a casting director's dream of potention suspects, from a macho action hero with more secrets than muscles to the sexy Hollywood heatthrob Jess finds all too tempting -- until her on-again, off-again lover, PI Nick Burby, shows up to help. But somebody doesn't want the case closed. And if Jess isn't careful, she just might become the next victim of a killer determined to prove she's barking up the wrong tree. -- Provided by publisher.

Includes a 13 page excerpt from Lead a horse to murder.