Rachel Alexander is surprised to see someone waiting for her at New York
City's Washington Square Park dog run, where she takes her pit bull, Dashiell, for his daily R&R. When the distraught man asks her to find his missing wife, Rachel accepts the case reluctantly. But Rachel is touched by the missing woman's daughter, a trouble young girl who has been mute since her mother disappeared and who is now suspected of the brutal stabbing murder of her doctor. Rachel believes she is innocent and is determined to find a way to communicate with her in order to discover the truth and clear her name. Against a backdrop of infidelity, neglect, and a city at times as lonly and frightening as a child's worst nightmares, Rachel's involvement in the case uncovers issues more complex, and more tragic, than she's ever seen, eventually exposing problems that someone is willing to die, or even kill, for.

Pros: Great mystery with dogs

Cons: none