First, we’ll keep the funny dog story contest going one more day, so there’s still time to enter. Let’s hear the funniest thing you dog ever did. Random Number Generator picks the winner. And now onto Sunday beginnings, taking a look at the start of one of my novels. CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF, the 16th novel – but not the last! – in the Che tand Bernie mystery series -comes out April 14 (preorders make the publisher happy and therefore me). We’re now doing the beginning of each one, going backwards (since the series can be read in any order) and on the 16th Sunday we’ll do CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF. Today we’re at TO FETCH A THIEF:

“I smell trouble,” Bernie said.
Better stop right there. Not that I doubt Bernie. The truth is I believe everything he says. And he has a nice big nose for a human. But what’s that saying? Not much.