Bondi, 1948. Kit Moran no longer walks dogs to survive; she walks them because the morning pack has become the heart of her world. The Bondi Walkers gather at the Pavilion in every weather: dogs, widows, a district nurse, a shopkeeper who hears everything, the cold swimmers of the Icebergs pool. When something goes wrong on the round, they notice first.
These are not puzzle mysteries, and nobody dies in these pages. Each book is a rescue-race: someone vanished, blamed, or preyed upon, and a community moving faster than the law to put it right. Warm, closed-door romance runs beside every case, from first courtship to a double wedding. For readers of Jacqueline Winspear who would rather save someone than catch someone.
The Books
Book 1
The Walking Group
Old Sailor keeps pulling toward a locked house whose owner has supposedly gone to the coast. She hasn't. What follows is a race to reach a vanished widow before the law thinks to look.
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Book 2
The Borrowed Dog
A decent ex-serviceman is walking a dog that isn't his, and someone is using the morning round to pass things along under his name. Ruth the district nurse notices first.
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Book 3
The Lost and Found
Nobody calls a dog lost when she vanished from a locked yard. Kit and shopkeeper Marjorie Tubb trace a quiet trade in stolen dogs, racing to bring them home before the next sale closes.
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Book 4
The Cold Water
When money goes missing at the Icebergs pool, the swimming set blames the migrant girl with the wrong vowels. Clearing Nina takes the whole pack, and a long-awaited question finally gets its answer.
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Book 5
The Quiet Mile
Prescribed a daily mile for her grief, Grace Tierney keeps passing a house where a medium sells messages from the dead. Then she hears a detail that is provably wrong, and a widow's savings are on the clock.
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Book 6
The Double Knot
On the eve of a double wedding, all four gold rings vanish from the Pavilion and a kind newcomer takes the blame. One day, one pack, one last thing to put right before the bells.
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