With her husband away for a weekend of search-and-rescue training, 50-something pet sitter Penelope Standing is busy hunting a runaway tortoise while wondering if her son has finally found a companion.

Until she stumbles over a body.

Penelope is perfectly willing to let the police solve a stranger's murder, but this stranger has ties to Penelope's nemesis, the police chief. Worse, Chief Purcell has disappeared. Is he on the run?

Or is he another victim?

Enjoy Penelope's latest hilarious adventures in Death Retrieves a Rival, book seven in The Penelope Standing Mysteries!