Comfort and Conspiracies: A Leashes and Lies Mystery
About Comfort and Conspiracies: A Leashes and Lies Mystery
When Jordan Taylor's therapy dog Charlie refuses to leave a confused resident's side during their weekly visit at Meadowview Senior Living, it should be a simple matter of comfort and reassurance. But Margaret's whispered concerns about receiving wrong medications sound less like confusion and more like a desperate plea for help. Despite warnings from facility management to mind her own business and a head nurse's suspicious death just days later, Jordan finds herself investigating a world where the people sworn to protect the vulnerable might be doing exactly the opposite.
With Charlie's uncanny ability to sense when something's wrong and her own stubborn refusal to look away from injustice, Jordan digs into medication records, falsified documents, and a conspiracy that reaches deeper than she ever imagined. As Jordan juggles puppy training classes by day and amateur sleuthing by night, she discovers that Meadowview's recently deceased head nurse had been documenting evidence of systematic fraud—residents receiving reduced medication dosages and cheap substitutes while the facility charged premium prices. The charming medical director who speaks passionately about resident care.
The strict administrator who threatens staff into silence. The board member with suspicious financial connections. The pharmaceutical rep whose company profits from every wrong prescription.
Everyone had something to gain from keeping residents sick and keeping the truth buried, and the one nurse who tried to expose them ended up dead at the bottom of a staircase in what was ruled an accident. With Charlie's nose for finding evidence in unexpected places and her own determination to protect the residents who've become her friends, Jordan follows a trail of threatening notes, falsified alibis, and carefully constructed lies. In the cozy town of Riverside Falls, where therapy dog visits bring joy and gossip travels faster than a golden retriever chasing a tennis ball, Jordan Taylor is about to learn that some people will do anything to protect their secrets.
The more she uncovers about the medication fraud scheme, the clearer it becomes that the head nurse's death was no accident, and that same someone is watching Jordan's investigation very carefully. Between teaching dogs to sit and stay, comforting frightened residents, and dodging increasingly dangerous threats, Jordan will need all her courage, Charlie's protective instincts, and maybe a healthy dose of caution to expose a killer who's already proven they'll eliminate anyone who gets too close to the truth.