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
Three weeks a boarder, old Sailor plants herself at the wire each morning, facing a shut house three streets over. Her owner has gone up the coast, everyone says. The dog is not listening to everyone.
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Book 2
The Borrowed Dog
A veteran walks the same route at the same hour every morning, because the routine is the medicine. Kit finds his dog's coat buckled wrong. The district nurse saw a stranger crouch at a gate.
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Book 3
The Lost and Found
A setter with a recall you could set a clock by is gone from a shut yard, shut gate, no hole in the fence. Second good dog in three weeks. Marjorie Tubb's counter is collecting the cards.
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Book 4
The Cold Water
Nina swims better than anyone at the Icebergs and keeps her towel off the members' pegs, having learned to take up no space. Then money goes missing from the clubhouse, and the clubroom has already decided.
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Book 5
The Quiet Mile
Told to walk a mile a day and think about nothing much, Grace Tierney takes the inland streets. One house has half-drawn blinds and a steady traffic of the grieving, and she keeps slowing at its gate.
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Book 6
The Double Knot
One Saturday left at the Pavilion, and two engaged couples who both want it. Kit offers it away before anyone thinks to ask. In a borrowed workroom, a young dressmaker sets up two forms and waits.
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