Dog's Green Earth
The morning after a rancorous committee meeting of Steve Levitan's HOA board, the site manager's body is found in the park.

Par for the course in this mystery series, though a trifle platitudinous as Steve dishes out relationship advice.

A Litter of Golden Mysteries
Some short stories giving us a glimpse of Steve Levitan and Rochester's life in between murders.

Inevitably there is quite a lot of repetition of Steve and Rochester's back story as most of the stories had been published separately. Perhaps the stories best serve those who don't the series at all or who are completists.

Dog Willing
An unpleasant bookshop owner pursuing a vendetta against food trucks she claims are taking over the car park in the mall where her shop is located is found dead, poisoned after eating the food given to her by the food truck owners as a peace offering. The owner of one of Rochester's doggy friends is the main suspect so Steve investigates.

The mystery itself was OK but unfortunately Steve Levitan, the narrator, is getting involved in campus committees and his prose becomes as leaden as a worthy press release. ( )