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Dishonest lenders, deserted houses, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, bing up the grime in the 2nd scintillating book in New York Times-Bestselling writer Rita Mae Brown’s pleasant new collection offering some doggedly decided canine sleuths and their smart individual companions.Settling into farm existence outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-cousin Truck Reed and Jeep’s German Shepherd, Master, former Wall Street broker Mags doesn’t skip the cutthroat world of expense banking—because its harmful tentacles reach westward towards the Silver State. The foreclosure disaster has had an enormous chunk from the regional housing market, where lines of properties stay unsold and forsaken—but not empty.A number of squatters, including eager single parents with kids, live underneath the radar in the properties on Reno’s Yolanda Street—without water or energy. Big hearted property agent Babs Gallagher enlists Truck and Magazines to begin a residential area outreach plan, but which means rising against uncaring power businesses, corrupt authorities, callous politicians—and a cruel assassin. Whenever a former bank is located brutally slain in another of the deserted houses, the idea of “cutthroat company practices” assumes an entire new meaning.Baxter, King, and various other canine investigators depart no bone of contention hidden because they assist their individual costs untangle a chain of killings grounded deeply within the heart of Red-Rock Valley’s notable populace.