Dog Grant Me

When Eastern College launches its first winter intersession program, administrator Steve Levitan is excited to host a course on Caribbean cuisine at Friar Lake Conference Center. His wife Lili is co-teaching with her friend, prominent food anthropologist Dr. Yesenia Ubeda. But before the first meal is served, threatening notes appear, old documents surface with explosive implications for US-Cuba relations, and a student with a hidden agenda is found murdered. With his golden retriever Rochester at his side, Steve must untangle a web of long-buried secrets and dangerous obsessions. Someone at Friar Lake is willing to kill to protect-or destroy-Yesenia's reputation. As more violence erupts and a brutal winter storm isolates the hilltop campus, Steve races to identify the killer before they can strike again.In this twentieth installment of Neil Plakcy's award-winning Golden Retriever mystery series, Steve and Rochester face their most complex case yet, where nothing is quite what it seems and old loyalties mask deadly new threats.