“Away to Me is like All Creatures Great & Small meets Agatha Christie—only with more glorious writing, more training tips, and more border collies! I could not put this novel down – and when I did, I felt blessed by the company of great characters both human and canine, inspired to live lives of courage…

Acclaimed bestselling author and dog expert Patricia McConnell’s first mystery, Away to Me, has it all: amazing canines, a flawed, funny, compelling heroine, unrelenting suspense — and a setting in rural Wisconsin so beautifully rendered it leaps off the page. I absolutely loved it!

“Dr. Maddie McGowan is a new, original, and utterly winning mystery-protagonist, and Away to Me is a mystery unlike any you’ve ever read before. Patricia McConnel has written a compulsively page-turning novel about trauma, redemption, and the magical bonds between humans and the animals we love – and who love us back. A novel that…

“This is a book you’ll stay up with all night–with no regrets in the morning. Come for the mystery, stay for the love that brings all the answers.”

Patricia McConnell’s knowledge and love of dogs shines in this gripping debut mystery. A multilayered tale of old wounds, second chances, and a thirst for justice, Away To Me introduces readers to the fascinating world of canine behavioral science and sheep herding, before delving into the gritty darkness of the criminal underworld, all the way…

A moving fiction debut that explores the deep connection between dogs and their human partners.