The Wagging Tail

Postwar Sydney, 1947. Kit Moran is a war widow at twenty-eight, running a fledgling dog-walking business from her late husband's veterinary practice in Bondi. She has Hector — her steadfast greyhound — a roster of eccentric clients, and a talent for noticing what other people overlook. When murder arrives on her morning round, Kit finds herself untangling secrets buried beneath the salt-bleached streets of a community still healing from war.

A closed eight-book series. The whole arc is planned, the ending earned.

The Books

Book 1

The Wagging Tail

The latch is cold under Kit Moran's hand — new brass meant to signal a fresh start, but the Pacific dawn seeps through everything in 1947 Bondi. A war widow at twenty-eight, she's turned her late husband's veterinary practice into The Wagging Tail, a dog-walking business three weeks old and already her lifeline. When a beloved local turns up dead, Kit's quiet community of beachside eccentrics becomes a puzzle of loyalties and buried secrets.

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Book 2

The Lead and the Loop

Every morning before dawn, Kit Moran stops at the green sign of The Wagging Tail and lets herself feel the quiet. Bondi belongs to the gulls and the milk carts and her, and she likes it that way. But when a new walker arrives with a complaint that leads to a neighbour's suspicious death, Kit's steady routine unravels. The last person seen with the victim was walking a dog that doesn't exist — and now the dog is the only witness.

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Book 3

The Morning Round

Time is no longer a blur of grief for Kit Moran — it's sharp, measured, and full of things that need noticing. When a beloved neighbour is found dead in her own garden, the peaceful morning round turns into a knot of secrets. Kit knows dogs can smell a lie, and she's learned to listen. The police call it an accident. The dogs say otherwise.

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Book 4

The Back Gate Key

The key turned — it always turned — but every morning, Kit Moran still held her breath before the lock gave. When a beloved local turns up dead behind a locked gate, Kit's quiet community bristles with secrets. The police call it an accident, but the key that should have been inside is missing, and the door's new mortice lock tells a different story. With her sharp nursing instincts and a roster of dog-walking sleuths, Kit must untangle a puzzle of petty grudges and buried loyalties before the wrong door is opened — and another secret slips its lead.

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Book 5

The Collar and the Clip

The walk cards never lied. But when Kit Moran spreads them out at dawn, she finds one pencilled with a name she doesn't recognise — and a lock jimmied on the practice door. A stolen collar and a dead body in the surgery's back room shatter the order she's built. Someone is silencing a secret buried since the war.

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Book 6

The Empty Run

The steady click of dog nails on floorboards is the only rhythm Kit Moran trusts. But when a quiet dog run turns up empty, that familiar rhythm breaks. Kit's gentle routine collides with a puzzle that whispers through Bondi's salt-bitten streets — and forces her to decide: protect the fragile peace she's built, or follow the trail where it leads? Who vanished between one set of paw prints and the next — and what will Kit find when she follows the trail home?

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Book 7

The Last Walk Home

Salt through the open window. Hector's nails clicking on the floorboards. Kit lays out the day's walk cards, steadying herself with the rhythm of terriers and corgis and the quiet hum of Bondi in 1947. But a war widow knows peace is borrowed. When a trusted client's death in a locked garden gate isn't the accident the constable calls it, Kit must untangle a knot of neighbourhood loyalties before the real killer walks free.

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Book 8

The Whole Pack

The latch is cold. The door feels like a question every morning — and Kit Moran has learned to answer. When a stranger is found dead on the dawn sand, the beachside community closes ranks. Kit's quiet routine shatters as she untangles a puzzle that ties a young walker's hidden past to a secret buried beneath the floorboards.

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