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Spencer Quinn's Heart of Barkness is the latest in the New York Times bestselling series that the Los Angeles Times called �nothing short of masterful"... Chet the dog, �the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction� (Boston Globe) and P.I. Bernie encounter heartache and much worse in the world of country music. They�re both music lovers, so when Lotty Pilgrim, a country singer from long ago, turns up at a local bar, they drive out to catch her act. Bernie�s surprised to see someone who was once so big performing in such a dive, and drops a C-note the Little Detective Agency can�t afford to part with into the tip jar. The C-note is stolen right from under their noses � even from under Chet�s, the nose that misses nothing � and before the night is over, it�s stolen again. Soon they�re working the most puzzling case of their career, a case that takes them back in time in search of old border-town secrets, and into present-day danger where powerful people want those secrets to stay hidden. Chet and Bernie find themselves sucked into a real-life murder ballad where there is no one to trust but each other.