Its the Christmas season and veterinarian Kate Turner is not feeling very jolly. Shes overworked, unappreciated, and dealing with two dissatisfied clients. Throw in a very complicated personal life and Kates definitely got a case of the holiday blues. To make matters worse, Kates ex-boyfriend, Jeremy, is mugged and robbed after they have a heated argument in the hospital parking lot. Then, two of her dissatisfied clients turn up dead which really gets Kates tinsel in a tangle. All of these events seem like coincidences, but they add up to something much more venomous. The first book in the...

It's February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses Hudson Valley winters can be brutal...and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time to dread Valentine's Day (and the fact that she's alone on this holiday, once again) as the police investigation shows that all three fatalities...