Bondi, 1947. The war is over, but its quiet fills every room of the house Kit Moran once shared with her husband. She reopens his shuttered vet surgery as The Wagging Tail, a dog-walking round for a seaside suburb still learning how to breathe again, and discovers that dogs notice what people work hard to hide.
Each book brings a new walker to the round, a young woman carrying her own war, and each finds a quiet romance along with the work. The cases are gentle by design: no body, no gunshots, no nightmares, just small wrongs followed patiently to the truth. Running underneath it all is Kit's own slow thaw. For readers of Jacqueline Winspear and Rhys Bowen who would like a wagging tail beside them.
The Books
Book 1
The Wagging Tail
Argos the border collie cannot abide a thing left out of place. So when he digs a glass valve out of a client's garden, wrapped in wire and buried on purpose, the first case begins.
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Book 2
The Lead and the Loop
Someone in Bondi is baiting the dogs, quietly and by choice, while Kit's new walker Meg keeps a secret folded small beneath her hairbrush. Reading the shape of a grudge nobody will name takes both of them.
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Book 3
The Morning Round
Beau is a champion, worth more than the villa he was kept behind, and he was lifted clean out of a locked garden. The note that follows does not ask for money.
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Book 4
The Back Gate Key
One grey morning the dog refuses the door. The back gate has been forced in the night, nothing is stolen, and whoever came was after something the old surgery has kept longer than Kit has.
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Book 5
The Collar and the Clip
A client's escaped monkey turns up at the surgery clutching a stolen silver clip, and Dorry, who came out of Berlin knowing where things get hidden, goes very still when she sees what it was fastened to.
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Book 6
The Empty Run
In a tidy backyard a kelpie noses a tarpaulin off a crate of naval stores, stencilled with a depot code Kit's newest walker knows by heart. The correct thing is to ring the police. Kit chooses the right thing instead.
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Book 7
The Last Walk Home
Outside a shuttered house on Campbell Parade, a schnauzer stops dead. Days later the old woman inside is gone, the doctor writes heart failure, and only the dogs disagree. Kit decides to look.
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Book 8
The Whole Pack
The last walker arrives with a suitcase she has never unpacked. What her kelpie finds near the docks circles back to where The Wagging Tail began, and the whole pack comes home to finish it.
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