After their divorce, Visiting Nurse Melanie Bass must keep in contact with Dr. Artie Krapaneck, her philandering ex-husband as they share custody of her beloved dog, Bruno. When she arrives at a Connecticut highway rest stop to retrieve the dog for "her week" she discovers the body of her ex-husband along with that of an unknown woman. It seems that now Artie will finally be out of her life forever. He isn't. Melanie soon has reason to suspect that her gruesome discovery has put her own life, and Bruno's, in danger. She decides she must find out who killed Artie and why. She begins to fear that he may have left in her possession the link to something the killers want. As the police try to solve the murder, she uncovers information on her own. Melanie learns how much she never knew about the man she was married to for five years, a man she thought she knew so well. She comes face to face with his first wife, Lynn, a woman she never knew existed. However, with Lynn's help, as well as that of a kind and eligible veterinarian who is treating Bruno for PTSD, she takes on the killers before they kill both her and Bruno. "In her strong debut mystery, Christine Falcone introduces a loyal, clever, and dogged nursing sleuth. Melanie Bass is the kind of woman you'd want as your friend or neighbor-a heroine readers will root for." - Lucy Burdette, National Bestselling Author of A DISH TO DIE FOR "Fans of crime fiction will welcome a savvy new sleuth, Melanie Bass, a nurse who knows death when she sees it." - Hallie Ephron, New York Times bestselling author of CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Christine Falcone's short stories have appeared in publications such as Imagine, Lancrom Review, and Deadfall: Crime Stories by New England writers. After working for nearly forty years as an RN in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Christine is delighted that retirement coincides with the publication of her first full length mystery. ​She lives on the Connecticut Shoreline with her family and a dog who is not nearly as well behaved as Bruno, the beloved canine in her novel.