When George and Bella―a homeless alcoholic and his intimidating German shepherd―disturb the peace outside her studio, yoga instructor Kate Davidson's Zen-like calm is stretched to the breaking point. Kate tries to get rid of them before Bella scares the yoga pants off her students. Instead, the three form an unlikely friendship. One night Kate finds George's body behind her studio. The police dismiss his murder as a drug-related street crime, but she knows George wasn't a dealer. So Kate starts digging into George's past while also looking for someone to adopt Bella before she's sent to the big dog park in the sky. With the murderer nipping at her heels, Kate has to work fast or her next Corpse Pose may be for real. Praise: Winner of the 2014 Dog Writers Association Award in the category of Fiction, Mystery or Humor! "Cozy fans will eagerly await the next installment."―Publishers Weekly "Murder Strikes a Pose, by Tracy Weber, is a delightful debut novel featuring Kate Davidson, a caring but feist yoga teacher...Namaste to Weber and her fresh, new heroine!"―Penny Warner, author of How to Dine on Killer Wine "[T]his charming debut mystery...pieces together a skillful collage of mystery, yoga, and plenty of dog stories against the unique backdrop of Seattle characters and neighborhoods. The delightful start of a promising new series. I couldn't put it down!"―Waverly Fitzgerald, author of Dial C For Chihuahua "Three woofs for Tracy Weber's first Downward Dog Mystery, Murder Strikes a Pose. Great characters, keep-you-guessing plot, plenty of laughs, and dogs―what more could we want? Ah, yes―the next book!"―Sheila Webster Boneham, author of Drop Dead on Recall

Murder Strikes a Pose (A Downward Dog Mystery, 1)

Literature & Fiction

Weber, Tracy

United States

Midnight Ink

Yogi Kate must clear her name of murder in this charming yoga mystery When Kate Davidson gets an offer to teach yoga classes to wedding guests at the Elysian Springs resort, she jumps at the opportunity, even though it means being forced to endure the wedding ceremony of the center's two caretakers. Avoiding the M-word turns out to be the least of Kate's problems when a wedding guest is found floating face-down in the resort's hot tub, shortly after a loud, public (and somewhat embarrassing) fight with Kate. The police pick Kate as their number-one suspect, so she's forced to team up with boyfriend Michael, best friend Rene, and German shepherd sidekick Bella to find the real killer. But they'll have to solve the murder before the police arrest Kate, or her next gig may last a lifetime--behind bars.

A Killer Retreat: A Downward Dog Mystery #2 (Downward Dog Mysteries)

When Seattle yoga teacher Kate Davidson agrees to teach doga (yoga for dogs) at a fundraiser for a local animal shelter, she believes the only damage will be to her reputation. But a few downward-facing dogs are the least of Kate's problems when an animal rights protest at the event leads to a suspicious fire and a drowning. The police arrest Dharma, a woman claiming to be Kate's estranged mother, and charge her with murder. To prove Dharma's innocence, Kate, her boyfriend Michael, and her German shepherd sidekick Bella dive deeply into the worlds of animal activism and organizational politics. As they investigate the dangerous obsessions that drive these groups, Kate and her sleuthing team discover that when it comes to murder, there's no place like hOMe. Praise: "Weber's clever assemblage of suspects is eliminated one by one in her entertaining novel."―RT Book Reviews "[Weber's] characters are likeable and amusing, the background is interesting, and the story is ultimately satisfying."―Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine "A wonderful story for dog lovers, with the other human characters being just as likeable."―Suspense Magazine "Weber keeps readers guessing and populates the action with plenty of kooky characters."―Mystery Scene "Karma's a Killer continues Tracy Weber's charming series."―The Seattle Times "Crazy, quirky critters and their odd, yet utterly relatable human counterparts, make Karma's a Killer an appealing story. But when you add the keep-you-guessing mystery with both laugh out loud one liners and touching moments of pure poignancy the result is a truly great book!"―Laura Morrigan, national bestselling author of the Call of the Wilde mystery series "Tracy's Weber's Karma's a Killer delivers on all fronts―a likably feisty protagonist, a great supporting cast, a puzzler of a mystery and, best of all, lots of heart."―Laura DiSilverio, national bestselling author of The Readaholics Book Club Mysteries, two-time Lefty Finalist for Best Humorous Mystery and Colorado Book Award-finalist "Yogatta love this latest in the series when Kate exercises her brain cells trying to figure out who deactivated an animal rights activist."―Mary Daheim, author of the Bed-and-Breakfast and Emma Lord Alpine Mysteries

Karma's a Killer (A Downward Dog Mystery, 3)

Yoga instructor Kate Davidson's life takes a chaotic turn once she agrees to not only be the doula for her pregnant best friend, but also play foster mother to two puppies. The chaos gets worse when Kate finds the dead body of a philandering fertility doctor and sees Rachel, one of her yoga students, fleeing the scene. Kate is convinced her student is innocent, and she sets out to find the real killer before her testimony condemns Rachel to a life behind bars. But her hands are full with caring for three dogs, teaching yoga classes, and gaining an unexpected crime-solving partner. If she's not careful, Kate's next yoga pose may be a fatal one. Praise: "If you're a fan of yoga, dogs, childbirth and murder cases, then Tracy Weber's A Fatal Twist is just what the fertility doctor ordered."―The Seattle Times

A Fatal Twist (A Downward Dog Mystery, 4)

Genre Fiction

If Kate Doesn't Act Fast, the Only "I Do" in Michael's Future Will Be at His Trial Yoga instructor Kate Davidson is ready to marry her boyfriend Michael, so she's disappointed when a special dinner doesn't end with a proposal. But disappointment turns to dismay and outrage as she learns the real problem: Michael is already married and his estranged wife is blackmailing him. When his wife's body is found―by Kate and her dog, no less―Michael is strangely unable to remember where he was the night she died. Since Michael has no alibi, Kate steps up to uncover what happened. What she walks into is a tangled web of deceit, obsession, and immigration fraud . . . with Michael trapped in the middle. Praise for the Downward Dog Mystery Series "Weber's yoga-inspired series regulars (A Fatal Twist, 2017, etc.) hit the road...light on yoga and heavy on complex relationship dynamics." ―Kirkus Reviews "Lots of red herrings and potential motives eventually lead Kate to a surprising killer. Cozy fans will cheer her every step of the way."―Publishers Weekly "If you're a fan of yoga, dogs, childbirth and murder cases, then Tracy Weber's A Fatal Twist is just what the fertility doctor ordered."―The Seattle Times

Pre-Meditated Murder (A Downward Dog Mystery, 5)

Yogini and amateur sleuth Kate Davidson will need more than Warrior Pose to solve a murder and help homeless teens Newly married yoga instructor Kate Davidson feels stuck in low-energy limbo, despite her high-energy life. She's trying to conceive a child, keep her studio afloat now that the ultra-cheap Some Like It Hot Yoga studio has opened across the street, and start a yoga program at a local resource center for homeless youth. When a center employee is found dead, Kate sets aside her fertility and financial woes to delve into the world of teenage homelessness. While digging for clues with her German shepherd Bella, Kate discovers that family can be formed by bonds stronger than shared DNA, and she must defend it at all costs. Praise: "Gripping ... Those who like their cozies with a dark edge will be rewarded."―Publishers Weekly "The sixth and latest title in author Tracy Weber's simply outstanding Downward Dog mystery series, Murder Likes It Hot is another deftly crafted and solidly entertaining read from beginning to surprise ending."―Midwest Book Review "My favorite book in the series. Weber draws the reader into the story and really sets the stage before the murder occurs. Weber knows exactly how to end each book making the reader a dedicated fan wanting more."―Cozy Mystery Book Reviews

Murder Likes It Hot (A Downward Dog Mystery, 6)

I Am Enough In Christ

Religion & Spirituality

Miller, Stephanie

Warren, Deborah

Reichartz, Carrie

Penkacik, Shawnee

Trachsel, Joy

Hallegra, Chou

Mager, Angela

Milar, Paula

Ward, Carla

Christian Books & Bibles

Bowker Identifier

Artists speak of negative space as an important part of any composition. In 1819, Keats wrote about how "straining against particles of light in the midst of a great darkness...is the very thing in which consists poetry." Poets are thus familiar with the power of the via negativa-the white space surrounding words, the silences between passages, are never empty. Rather, by turns they shimmer and bristle with the enormity of the unsaid. It takes not only skill but also great love and courage to write toward those places where a wound has been inflicted, whether in the aftermath of family tragedy or of the world's larger raft of trauma. In the poems of Tracy Rice Weber, we find a poet gifted with such a generous capacity for tenderness, and one who shows us how the careful carpentry of words not only builds or mends, but also allows even the joints and hasps to sing.-Luisa A. Igloria, author of Maps for Migrants and Ghosts & Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia 2020-22 In Tracy Rice Weber's All That Keeps Me, the ordinary is made luminous. Fireflies, sand dunes, daffodils, brown bags and buckshots, all matter of making and unmaking, are turned over in new light. Here, hands are "tools, not ornaments" fit for use and usefulness. They salvage and mourn, for some, they wither. For others, hands become distant memory, like the rest of the worn body, undone. Giving words to the wordless and grace to what's mostly overlooked, Rice Weber's poems herald the gods of all comfort: nameless saints staving off empty cupboards, protecting heirlooms, allowing for grocery store reverie. The poet feels what so many feel when threading the difficult stitch of family: "There/ are fathers and mothers for every/ space left in me." And a child's wonder, when does it turn? What a burden love is, this fear we all collect of losing what we most want to hold. This work is a record and recollection, a timeless desire, to burrow into the minutia of our living, and come back with something to show for it.-Remica Bingham-Risher, author of What We Ask of Flesh and Starlight & Error "In All That Keeps Me, Tracy Rice Weber makes visible 'the gray geometry' of sorrow. Rooted in the restless intimacies of the familial, her poems don't flinch-her clear-eyed language brings us close to the pain and to the tenderness. What wounds also tethers. Rice Weber's poems-beautiful, resonant-will stay with me for a long time."-Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine A stunning chaplet that trills in a space of honest vibration between the feral and the domestic. In soft brilliance, link by link, here is a chain of history that breaks the reader over and again. Every time I return to this manuscript the reservoir of its detail fills an entire world's worth of sound, image, and the infinite minutiae of life that would spear our imaginations. Here are poems that do the hard work of dying. Here are poems that blaze up, afire, with what it is to be human. This is poetry that reaches. All That Keeps Me will seize you with its beauty, unfettered as the wind.-Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, author of D&#275;mos

All That Keeps Me

Poetry

Finishing Line Press

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