PIT PERFECT MURDER by Renee George

Title:  PIT PERFECT MURDER

Series:  Barkside of the Moon 1

Author:  Renee George

Publisher:  Renee George

Publish Date:   12.15.2016

Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance, Mystery

Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content

Grammar/editing:  B – a few small errors

Received from:  Amazon purchase

Tour by:  Wickedly Innocent Promotions

Goodreads link: Pit Perfect

Date completed: 06.20.2018

Description from the publisher:

Pit Perfect is a tale of mystery and suspense that will have you on the edge of your seat. Fall in love with Lily Mason, the shifter who only wants to live as a human, and her pit bull Smooshie, a rescue dog who in the end may be the one doing the rescuing!

When cougar-shifter Lily Mason moves to Moonrise, Missouri, she wishes for only three things from the town and its human population: 1) to find a job, 2) to find a place to live, and 3) to live as a human, not a therianthrope.

Lily gets more than she bargains for when a rescue pit bull named Smooshie rescues her from an oncoming car, and it’s love at first sight. Thanks to Smooshie, Lily’s first two wishes are granted by Parker Knowles, the owner of the Pit Bull Rescue center, who offers her a job at the shelter and the room over his garage for rent.

Lily’s new life as an integrator is threatened when Smooshie finds Katherine Kapersky, the local church choir leader and head of the town council, dead in the field behind the rescue center. Unfortunately, there are more suspects than mourners for the elderly town leader. Can Lily keep her less-than-human status under wraps? Or will the killer, who has pulled off a nearly Pit Perfect murder, expose her to keep Lily and her dog from digging up the truth?

This paranormal cozy mystery contains cougar-shifters, shifters, lovable pit bulls, and supernatural beings.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PIT PERFECT is the first in the Barkside of the Moon series. I believe you will need to read them in the order of release.  In fact, the main character, Lily, is a transplant from a previous series, the Witchin’ Impossible series.  While it is not technically necessary to have read those stories, since you get a synopsis from Lily of what happened to her family, I think I would have preferred to have read those stories first.

If you’ve never been owned by a pit bull, you are missing out!  Smooshie is a very well-written representative for the breed.  In my experience, they are lovable, sweet tempered babies for their humans.  They are also protective (which is the main source for a lot of the misleading reputation).  Renee George describes this particular sweetheart with so much clarity and love it is obvious that she is a dog lover.

I loved these characters and cannot wait to return to town… even though a return means another murder since these are cozy mysteries.  I love Lily.  She is an intriguing character with so many facets to be further explored.  Smooshie, as I’ve already mentioned, is a fur baby after my heart.  Parker is the perfect friend, boss, … boyfriend?  I even love that there are loose ends on that front.  There is room to grow as the series grows. 

Lily is doing all of this while keeping her cougar-shift a secret from the humans.  Thank the Goddess for Uncle Buzz who helps her navigate that rocky beach.  Yet, she’s getting notes.  Someone saw her.

Now I’m off to go grab book 2!  I have to know who knows her secret.

Bark Side of the Moon Series:

1.      Pit Perfect Murder

2.      Murder and the Money Pit

3.      Pit List Murder

Also from Renee George:

·         Breathing into Fire

·         Changeling Encounter

·         Dirty Lion Bastard

·         Double Down

·         Dying Room Only

·         Dying for a White Christmas (To Die For #2)

·         Kiss My Ash

·         The Lion Kings (released in five parts)

·         Mate of Honor

·         Pole Serpent

·         Raising Caine

·         Rising Sun

·         Soul of the Alpha

·         Viva Los Regalos:  Double Down

·         Witchmate

·         A Wolf in Bear’s Clothing (Paranormal Dating Agency)

Beast Series:

1.      Taking Back Control

2.      Eat Your Heart Out

3.      Old Ways, New Days

4.      Soul Tripping

5.      Rock The Line

6.      Changeling Encounter

CockTails Series:

1.      The Wallbanger

2.      The Hot Toddy

3.      The Gin Rickey

4.      The Dirty Martini

5.      The Old Fashioned (Wallbanger 2)

6.      The Hurricane (Hot Toddy 2)

7.      The Sparkler (Gin Rickey 2)

8.      The Screwdriver

Cull Series:

1.      Claimed by the Alpha

2.      Protected by the Alpha

3.      Ravished by the Alpha

Holiday Hotties Series:

1.      Fruitcakes

2.      You Don’t Know Jack (Holiday Hotties #2)

3.      Stupid Cupid (Holiday Hotties #3)

Kansas City Vampires Series:

1.      A Reluctant Vampire

2.      A Vampire Forsaken

3.      A Vampire Taken

4.      A Vampire Breaking

5.      Bloody English

6.      A Lone Wolf’s Vampire

7.      A Pack for Christmas

Madder Than Hell Series:

1.      Gone with the Minion

2.      Devil on a Hot Tin Roof

Midnight Shift/ Other Worlders series:

1.      Midnight Shift

2.      The Bear Witch Project

3.      A Door to Midnight

4.      Shade of Midnight

5.      Midnight Before Christmas

6.      A Darker Shade of Gray

7.      In The Shade

Peculiar Mysteries Series:

1.      You’ve Got Tail

1.5 My Furry Valentine

2.      Thank You for Not Shifting

3.5  My Peculiar Road Trip

4.      My Hairy Halloween

5.      In the Midnight Howl

6.      Furred Lines

Witchin’ Impossible Series:

1.      Witchin’ Impossible

2.      Rogue Coven

3.      Familiar Protocol

4.      Mr. & Mrs. Shift

AMAZON-US

AMAZON-UK

BARNES&NOBLE

Thank you [Wickedly Innocent Promotions] for hosting this tour.