Sleeping Dogs Lie

A 2022 Royal Palm Literary Award Winner

"Snappy dialog and plot twists" – The Writer's Digest

A newspaper writer stumbles on a body in a local park and her outrage over the cruelty to this animal leads her into a dark world of rivalry and competition in a gripping new story from award-winning author and podcaster Gail Hulnick.

When newspaper writer Lillian Howe and her dog Carl find a body under the bushes in a park near her southwest Florida home, she can't rest after their discovery. Head battered and legs bound—someone has killed a beautiful dog.

After Lillian decides to go after the killer in her newspaper column, she faces fire, vicious animals, and a threat to her best friend.

A gripping tale of mystery, suspense, and long-buried secrets, Sleeping Dogs Lie melds community newspapers, dog lovers, Florida beaches, and the Everglades in Book 3 of Gail Hulnick's Media Mysteries series.

The Media Mysteries series features three women protagonists: Lillian Howe, Chelan Montgomery, and Nevada Leacock. Each of the novels is a stand-alone.

In Book 1, The Lion's Share of the Air Time, Chelan does the reporting when three TV stars are murdered. This novel was a quarter-finalist in an Amazon Breakthrough Novel competition. 

In Book 2, A Bird in the Sand, also a Royal Palm Literary Award-winner, Nevada investigates the theft of several priceless artifacts from a movie production set in Savannah, Georgia.

And in this one, Book 3, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Lillian learns about the world of dog shows and dog people while she hunts for a killer and tries to protect her own dog, Carl.