Muddy Mouth - C A Newsome - Bog

A Fourth of July parade, 89 feral cats, and a missing author. It's nothing Lia and her schnauzer can't handle.
While the dog park gang trains their fur-babies to participate in Northside's famously eccentric Fourth of July parade, starving artist Lia Anderson builds a float commissioned by Fiber and Snark, the cat-rescuing knitting club who manages the career of local best-selling author Lucas Cross. Then Lucas disappears at a book convention, someone attacks Lucas's accountant, and Lia is the only one the ladies of Fiber and Snark trust to discover the truth while protecting a secret no one suspects they have.
It's the dog park gang to the rescue. But can they find Lucas before somebody winds up dead?
(63,000 words)