Tinsel, treachery and toxins... the perfect Christmas cocktail.
Acclaimed for success in a career where sight is considered essential for detection, blind private investigator Steve Smiley has always relied on his extraordinarily heightened senses and razor-sharp intellect. His sighted business partner is usually at hand to offer her penetrating insights, but when she becomes consumed with a high-stakes real estate development, Smiley finds himself at loose ends – until fate pairs him with an unlikely ally: a washout from the police K9 program.
In their first case together, what appears to be a simple matter of proving a pharmacist's innocence in a poisoning death quickly unravels into something far more sinister. Every conversation reveals another suspect, every clue points to another motive, and in the shadows, someone is watching their investigation with growing concern.
When an act of arson sends his partner to the hospital, Smiley realizes he's stumbled onto something bigger than a single murder. With time running out and lives at stake, Smiley must rely on his keen powers of observation and his uniquely gifted canine partner to expose a truth that others have gone to violent lengths to conceal.
Hemlock And Homicide has a sleigh full of surprises for detectives Smiley and McBlythe. Ride along as they deal with Smiley's nemesis while solving two seemingy unrelated murders—all before Christmas! With no graphic violence, sex scenes or foul language, the Smiley And McBlythe Mysteries are perfect for class mystery lovers.