Three Dog Day

It's bitter cold in Rosedale, Tennessee, the coldest January in decades. It's the kind of chill usually described as requiring with three dogs to make it through the night. Mae December had found a body on the banks of the Little Harpeth River. It's another murder for her boyfriend, Sheriff Ben Bradley, to investigate. He usually relies on Mae, but she's broken her wrist, which makes helping out difficult. That seems okay at first because the body was found near a puppy mill, and all evidence points to the owner as the killer. This one is sure to be a slam dunk. Trying to run her kennel with a broken wrist requires Mae to hire a Ray Fenton, the kid who blew the whistle on the now-shuttered puppy mill. Meanwhile, Ben's Office Manager, Dory, struggles to pass the tests that will allow her to achieve her dream of becoming a deputy. Mae and Tammy are busy planning Tammy's Valentine's Day Wedding to the brother of Mae's deceased fiance, and Detective Wayne Nichols must revisit his painful past as he fights to free his foster mother from prison. Rosedale is the last place you'd expect to harbor a killer, but now the sheriff's department must solve it's third murder in a year.