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The Phantom in the Pond by Dorothy Bodoin

Foxglove Corners Series

  • Book 1: Darkness at Foxglove Corners
  • Book 2: Cry for the Fox
  • Book 3: Winter’s Tale
  • Book 4: A Shortcut through the Shadows
  • Book 5: The Witches of Foxglove Corners
  • Book 6: The Snow Dogs of Lost Lake
  • Book 7: The Collie Connection
  • Book 8: A Time of Storms
  • Book 9: The Dog from the Sky
  • Book 10: Spirit of the Season
  • Book 11: Another Part of the Forest
  • Book 12: Where Have All the Dogs Gone?
  • Book 13: The Secret Room of Eidt House
  • Book 14: Follow a Shadow
  • Book 15: The Snow Queen’s Collie
  • Book 16: The Door in the Fog
  • Book 17: Dreams and Bones
  • Book 18: A Ghost of Gunfire
  • Book 19: The Silver Sleigh
  • Book 20: The Stone Collie
  • Book 21: The Mists of Huron Court
  • Book 22: Down a Dark Path
  • Book 23: Shadow of a Ghost Dog
  • Book 24: The Dark Beyond the Bridge
  • Book 25: The Deadly Fields of Autum
  • Book 26: The Lost Collies of Silver Hedge
  • Book 27: All the Pretty Little Collies
  • Book 28: Phantom in the Pond

THE PHANTOM IN THE POND
Foxglove Corners:  Book 20
DOROTHY BODOIN
ISBN #: Unavailable
September 2019
Wings E Press Inc
www.wingsepress.com
eBook
Price: Unavailable
387 Pages
Cozy Mystery
Rating:  3 Cups

Jennet Greenway is an English teacher and Collie lover. She and her five Collies live with her husband, local deputy sheriff Crane

Brent Fowler is a wealthy resident of Foxglove Corners. He is a Collie lover and generous to Collie rescue.

Brent Fowler has bought an old Victorian house in need of extensive repairs. He intends for it to be a home for elderly and hard to place Collies in need of a home. Jennet is very active in Collie rescue and a friend of Brent’s. She visits the proposed shelter and finds that a Collie is already in residence; the ghost of a tri-colored male dog appears in the property’s pond. Jennet and her friends are determined to find out who he belonged to and why he haunts the pond.

This is a nice, easy to read, cozy mystery. Unfortunately, when a series is this long running, it is hard to get to know the characters. I felt that the author assumed that the reader is already familiar with Jennet and her friends, leaving character development to the previous books. The mystery was interesting, and as a dog lover, the Collies made the book even more enjoyable. It would be even better if I had read some of the previous books.

Maura
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2 Comments

  1. Sharon Jachem
    Sharon Jachem on October 5, 2019 at 6:08 pm

    When will Phantom in the Pond become available?

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    • coffeetimeromance
      coffeetimeromance on October 10, 2019 at 9:27 am

      Hi Sharon! I checked with Dorothy Bodoin and she said that it will be released on December 1st from Wings ePress!

      Reply

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