When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn't expect to find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has too good a nose not to lead her to the mangled body of a young woman. Despite her own best instincts, Pru can�t avoid getting involved.
The young woman seems to have been mauled by a wild cat�and Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshire woods for years. Wallis, Pru�s curmudgeonly tabby, seems fixated on the idea of a killer cat, but Spot suggests that the violent death was something more than a tragic animal attack.
As motives multiply, a cougar of a different sort sets her eyes on Pru�s sometime lover, and another woman disappears. With panther panic growing, Pru may have to put aside her own issues�and her own ideas of domesticity�to solve a savage mystery.
