SNUFFLING UP BONES

Spring is waning, and summer is on the way. It's a beautiful day for Doris Flynn to take Rex and Buttercup, her four-hundred-and-fifty-pound lap pig, for a walk along the ridge. While Doris is admiring the flora and fauna, Buttercup is snuffling up the seedier side of things and uncovers the remains of a deceased forest brethren. Though Buttercup is quite interested, Doris is disgusted. Diverting the pig isn't easy, but when she's gone, Doris is left looking at a human skull barely half a mile from her home. A call to 911 brings the sheriff and the medicolegal death investigator. Both are new, have an agenda, and are questioning the viability of a pet pig. While Doris ponders how the remains got to a place directly above her home and how her daughter is tied into the case, the sheriff, unsure of his own staff, is trying to decipher the why. That leaves only the who and how, the medicolegal death investigator’s forte.

Are they going to find a way to work together and figure this out, or are the outsiders now prowling the area going to wreak more havoc?

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“DonnaRae Menard's evocative writing brings Vermont to life and introduces Doris Flynn, a sharp and fearless farmer and amateur sleuth with an irresistible 450 lb. porcine sidekick. Whether Doris is rescuing animals in need or searching the woods for clues to a murder with snuffling pig Buttercup at her side, readers will be glad they journeyed with the duo through the Green Mountain State’s majestic but sometimes dangerous landscape.” 

~ Ellen Byron, USA Today bestselling & Agatha Award-winning author

of The Golden Motel Mystery Series

“DonnaRae Menard always has something humorous to relate regarding her pet pig. In Snuggling Up Bones, she shows us that her 450-pound baby girl is not only funny, but smart, dedicated, and relentlessly devoted. Elderly cats, re-homed dogs, and a feisty pig! Not to mention the hunky sheriff trying to keep Doris Flynn’s nose out of his investigation.” 

~ Darlene Dziomba, author of Clues from the Canines