The Dogfather

Susan Conant. Berkley Prime Crime, $19.95 (259pp) ISBN 978-0-425-18838-5

Dog fans will lap up Susan Conant's The Dogfather, in which series sleuth Holly Winter (The Wicked Flea, etc.) reluctantly agrees to train mob boss Enzio Guarini's four-month-old Elkhound puppy. When someone bumps off Guarini's right-hand man, Holly realizes she might've done better to roll over and play dead than to accept a training job she couldn't refuse.

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