I enjoyed this so much! On the edge of my seat trying to figure this out and I genuinely couldn’t. I had suspicions though! Only thing I will say is that Pris seemed to change a little ways into the book. She seemed really confident in the beginning and then became apologetic with everything. Besides this though, I enjoyed all the characters and loved Bailey! It’s nice that Pris is a children’s author of mysteries featuring Bailey!
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Pris and her bloodhound Bailey are back in their second investigation. It is time for the Crosbyville Fall Festival. This time the venue has been changed to the estate of Edward Townsend instead of the fairground. Townsend has recently died and the question of who will inherit the multi-billionaire's fortune is on everybody's mind.

Edward was something of a recluse, but he did patronize Pris's Aunt Agatha's diner for his Sunday dinner. Agatha and Edward were friends. Edward had lost track of his descendants and hired a private investigator to try to track down his heirs. Edward's lawyer found David Townsend who is a grandson. The private investigator found a young girl who is a more distant related.

Pris and Bailey are demonstrating his tracking ability when she discovers the body of one of Edward's trustees in a garden shed. He was badly beaten and dies shortly later in the hospital leaving a vacancy in the trustees who include his lawyer and his accountant - two women who don't get along at all well. Their rivalry is only one of the many at the Townsend estate.

Pris is more than willing to leave the investigation to her boyfriend who is the Chief of Police, but she keeps stumbling on clues. Things heat up when it is learned that Edward Townsend died of poison rather than of natural causes. Now, the Chief of Police has two murders to investigate. Besides the murder, there is also the matter of embezzlement from the estate and a backpack filled with $50,000 in cash which Bailey digs up.

This was an engaging cozy mystery. Pris is not your usual heroine given that she is prone to fainting when the going gets tough. But she and Bailey along with her boyfriend to solve the mystery in the end. And Pris does get her second Bailey the Bloodhound children's book finished too.

It was fun to visit with Pris and Bailey again. I also enjoyed revisiting Pris' crew, her friend Marcie, her Aunt Agatha, and of course Gilbert and Hannah. This book had tons of additional characters, sometimes to the point of confusion. Maybe a list at the beginning of the book would have helped readers. Pris, Bailey, and company get caught up at the estate of a recently decreased billionaire who had lended his estate for a town festival. When Bailey's demonstration of his tracking skills turns up a dead body, all heck breaks lose. When questions about one of the trustees of the estate come up, we find out that our estate owner was also murdered. With multiple murders, missing heirs, and missing money, can Pris and Baily help the police figure out what is really going on? Is someone going to get away with multiple murders? Who really is supposed to inherit all that money? Will Pris be able to finish her next Bailey the Bloodhound book on time? You are going to want to be around for all the action! Thanks to #Netgally, #BerkeleyPrimeCrime, and the author for a chance to read! #HoundingAKiller #ABaileyTheBloodHoundMystery #KallieEBenjamin #bookreview #bookideas #retiredreader

Hounding a Killer, the 2nd book in Kallie E. Benjamin's A Bailey the Bloodhound Mystery series, is even better than the first book and I loved that one. When Pris quit teaching elementary school to dedicate her time to writing a children's book featuring her bloodhound as a detective, she never imagined that she would be the one doing the investigating. Bailey is presented as a dog, because that is what he is, a very special dog who acts like a dog.
In this case, Pris and her best friend agree to chaperone a birthday sleep over for a trio of preteens including her boyfriend's daughter. The group is as energetic and excitable as the ones I used to teach, so they are absolutely realistic. The party has been approved to take place at a mansion before the death of the owner, but one of his trustees insist that he would want the sleep over and a festival to take place on the state to continue. The girls didn't know the gentleman, but a friend had arranged the weekend fun. Bodies showing up, suspicious deaths, violence, missing money and missing people keep Pris as well as her boyfriend and police chief busy trying to untangle the complicated piles of mysteries.
I have read every book V.M. Burns/Valerie Burns/Kallie E. Benjamin has published, and I have loved every one of them.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berley Publishing Group for allowing me to read an ARC of Hounding a Killer and share the fun with my friends and followers. This delightful tail is sure to entrance fans of cozy mysteries and dogs.
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Pris and her trusty bloodhound, Bailey, are attending the annual town festival. Days before a local Billionaire had passed away and his heir has shown up causing problems for the locals. After he goes missing, Pris and Bailey are asked to track him down. But on their search-and-rescue mission, Pris and Bailey sniff out fraud, theft, and a body.

I read the first book in this series and really enjoyed it, so I was looking forward to this book. Unfortunately it fell a little flat for me. Pris seemed to be different in this book, more timid, easily hurt and taking things the wrong way and overreacting. The mystery was interesting but the characters just did not seem to have any chemistry and felt one note. I hope the author can find her way back because the first book really was good.