Everyone saw the funny dog. No one saw the murder coming.

The Paws & Purpose Summer Fundraiser is supposed to be Mia Harper’s most carefully planned event yet: donation boxes logged, volunteer shifts assigned, sponsor booths arranged, and every envelope accounted for. After the shelter’s recent troubles, Mia needs the day to prove one thing to the town of Kettering: Paws & Purpose can still be trusted.

Then Banjo arrives.

Big, loud, lovable, and impossible to ignore, the shelter’s newest rescue dog becomes the unexpected star of the fundraiser. He photobombs families, steals the spotlight, and turns every mishap into a crowd-pleasing moment. By afternoon, the whole town is laughing.

Until the music stops.

When finance lead Diane Okafor is found dead behind the storage shed, the fundraiser’s joyful chaos becomes the town’s favorite explanation. People whisper that the event was reckless. That the shelter lost control. That Banjo’s antics distracted everyone at exactly the wrong time.

But Mia knows better.

Diane had been tracking the donations. One cash box had gone missing from its station. The numbers don’t add up. And Biscuit, Mia’s steady rescue dog, has been fixated on that same box all day.

Now Mia must sort fact from gossip before the shelter’s reputation collapses again. With a missing reconciliation ledger, a trail of suspicious donation envelopes, and a town eager to blame the loudest dog in the yard, Mia has to prove that the funny dog didn’t do it.

Someone else did.

The Funny Dog Did It is Book 3 in the Paws & Purpose Cozy Mysteries, a warm, clue-driven series featuring a small-town shelter, an amateur sleuth, loyal rescue dogs, and mysteries solved through observation, records, routines, and heart.

This book can be read as a standalone.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Dog cozy mysteries
• Small-town amateur sleuths
• Animal shelter mysteries
• Clean, comforting whodunits
• No graphic violence
• Clever clues, community secrets, and loyal pups

Follow Mia, Biscuit, and Banjo into a fundraiser full of laughter, gossip, missing money, and one very suspicious trail.