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Arsenic and Young Lacy: A Marcia Banks and Buddy Mystery (The Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries) Paperback – September 11, 2016

by Kassandra Lamb (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 465 ratings
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Sweet, adorable Lacy has stolen Marcia Banks’s heart, but money is tight. Like it or not, the service dog trainer needs to complete the human phase of training and deliver the dog to her new owner in order to get paid. But the former Army nurse client turns out to be a challenging trainee. On top of her existing neuroses–which go beyond the psychological damage from a sexual assault during her second tour in Afghanistan–the veteran is now being stalked.When Marcia receives a bizarre warning to stay away from her client and Lacy is also caught in the stalker’s malicious orbit, Sheriff Will Haines steps in to investigate. Marcia finds this both endearing and annoying, especially when he expects her to stay on the sidelines. The training fee would make her solvent again, but how can she put her dogs at risk?Maybe Marcia should be more worried about herself, since the stalker has decided to pay her off in a very different way.
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  1. Book 2 of 13
    The Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries
  2. Print length
    228 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    September 11, 2016
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.52 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    099746741X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0997467413
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Kassandra Lamb has never been able to decide which she loves more, psychology or writing. In college, she realized that writers need a day job in order to eat, so she studied psychology. After a career as a psychotherapist and college professor, she is now retired and can pursue her passion for writing. She spends most of her time in an alternate universe with her characters. The portal to this universe, aka her computer, is located in Florida, where her husband and dog catch occasional glimpses of her. She and her husband spend part of each summer in her native Maryland, where her Kate Huntington series is based.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ misterio press LLC (September 11, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 099746741X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0997467413
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.52 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 465 ratings

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In her youth, Kassandra Lamb had two great passions—psychology and writing. Advised that writers need day jobs—and being partial to eating—she studied psychology. Her career as a psychotherapist and college professor taught her much about the dark side of human nature, but also much about resilience, perseverance, and the healing power of laughter. Now retired, she spends most of her time in an alternate universe populated by her fictional characters. The portal to this universe (aka her computer) is located in North Central Florida where her husband and dog catch occasional glimpses of her.

Her first series, set in her native Maryland, stars psychotherapist and amateur sleuth, Kate Huntington. In her newer cozy mystery series set in Florida, Marcia (pronounced Mar-see-a, not Marsha) Banks trains service dogs for combat veterans and solves mysteries in her spare time, with the assistance of her Black Labrador sidekick, Buddy.

Kassandra is now contemplating another series, a police procedural, with a spinoff character from the Kate Huntington mysteries, police lieutenant Judith Anderson.

Kassandra was born in Baltimore and lived in Maryland for the first 50 years of her life. Like Kate Huntington, she was a specialist in trauma recovery for two decades. She also taught psychology at Towson University.

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Barb Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars No Arsenic Involved
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2016
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Arsenic and Young Lacy: A Marcia Banks and Buddy Mystery is about a young woman who trains service dogs for veterans in Florida. While working with the dogs and the veterans that she is training them for, Marcia becomes embroiled in the book's mystery. The characters, including the dogs, are well developed, realistic, and very likeable. This book was a fast read and the storyline moved along quickly. I read it through in one setting and loved it. The only thing that puzzled me was the title...perhaps it was meant to be a red herring.
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Lois Fisher
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Mystery.
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2018
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Kassandra Lamb's second book in her service dog series is quite good. Marcia is a wonderful character. The dogs are all great. The plot is intriguing to a point, and then the woman who needs the service dog becomes such a lunatic that I couldn't see any organization leaving her with Lacy. The who-dunnit isn't a shock, but there's a neat twist, which saves the ending. Ms. Lambs' writing is excellent, and her other characters are all well-drawn. I read the 1st book in the series, enjoyed it, and look forward to the third.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, another great book
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020
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The only hard thing about this book is I couldn't stop reading. It was exciting and suspenseful too. Marcia is a great dog trainer for dogs that go to vets with PTSD. Lacy is a beautiful white dog who will belong to Rainey, but will Lacy be safe there? Marcia is worried for several reasons.
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Pam
5.0 out of 5 stars Dog stories are among the best
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2020
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Not just the dog(s) but the setting, plot, and human characters are important as well. The second book in the Marcia and Buddy series loves up to expectations. Police, service dogs, a little romance and twists in the plot all equal a satisfying read. In to the next!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2016
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I enjoyed this book. The plot was well thought out and the characters were well developed.
I loved reading about the training of the dogs and getting to know them, too.
Light reading and enjoyable.
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K. Renee
3.0 out of 5 stars Arsenic and Lacy
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2020
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Highly entertaining a good and fast read. Mental health issues were brought up without shame. The dog training makes this reader want to know more.
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Hard2Please
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a cliffhanger.
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A couple of twists I never saw coming. Lots of suspense and romance also. My only complaint is we hardly saw Buddy at all.
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Shàyna Traveler
5.0 out of 5 stars Kassandra Lamb
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2019
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I loved this book. My nose has been glued to it from 9pm - 2:30am and finishing up today. I'm a huge lover of stories about service and rescue dogs. Kassandra pulls you right in as if your right there.

When lacy was poisoned I was so angry as if I was right there. I wanted to take a bat and beat on the offender.

Just love her writing and am now going to Amazon and download another.
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Angela murray
5.0 out of 5 stars Service dog trainer.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2019
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These cosy mysteries are really good. They are also quite emotional, They will definitely tug the heart strings as well as keeping you guessing.
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Rae
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Australia on November 8, 2018
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Good read
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Barb Taub
4.0 out of 5 stars Danger, mystery, romance, and delightful dogs!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2016
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Kasandra Lamb has provided another entertaining read for the second book in her series about struggling service dog trainer Marcia Banks and her beloved canine sidekick, Buddy.

As with any foster care situation, it’s often impossible to provide the affection and guidance your young charges need without becoming emotionally involved yourself. Marcia has fallen in love with beautiful young Lacy, one of the service dogs she’s training. At the same time, she’s both sympathetic to and suspicious of her new client, former military nurse (and sexual assault victim) Rainey Bryant.

In addition to her obvious and complex emotional problems, Rainey also appears to be the victim of a stalker. Is it her assailant from military days, angry that Rainey’s accusations cut short his military career? Is it her former boyfriend or even her self-centered best friend? And what secrets is her sister hiding in the house they share?

In the best amateur sleuth tradition, this character-driven tale takes Marcia into the path of danger. One of the requirements of the amateur detective genre is a strong connection to the police—in this case, Marcia’s boyfriend Will, a local sheriff.

[QUOTE:] He gestured toward me. ‘This the girlfriend you been telling me about, who keeps getting herself in trouble?’ Will looked up at him, then turned his gaze to me. His eyes softened and his mouth quirked up on one end. ‘Afraid so.’ [END QUOTE]

But both Marcia and Will have too much baggage for the course of true love to go smoothly or even allow them to communicate about where the difficulties lie. At the same time, Rainey’s fragile emotional and mental state interferes with her training process with Lacy. And as if that isn’t enough, there is a real and physical danger from Rainey’s stalker which turns deadly when first Marcia’s dog and then her friend are poisoned.

In the best amateur sleuth tradition, Marcia decides it’s up to her to protect her dogs and her client (decidedly, in that order!) by investigating the crimes herself. This is set against her developing relationship with Will, stalled now partly because Sheriff Will's department is understaffed, but mostly because of the inability on both sides to communicate, and the need both have to guard against being hurt again.

The only thing that I wish had gone differently was some foreshadowing and red herrings that failed to hide the fairly obvious villain. One problem with a cozy detective story as opposed to a police procedural, is that the murderer pretty much has to be someone involved in the story, with clues shared fairly (along with red herrings). And if there are relatively few characters, it makes it easier to guess the killer’s identity too early in the story.

Author Kassandra Lamb handles these issues with humor and a light touch. There are well-rounded supporting characters so necessary to any series, and a nice sense of life in a small Florida town. “She’d caught me, one time early on, eyeing her unusual garb and had cackled. ‘Honey, this is Florida, land of wear whatever ya darn well please.'”

And amateur detective Marcia also has a sense of humor about her attempts to play detective. “I silently cursed TV shows and mystery novels that taught people how to commit crimes more effectively.”

But despite the emotional roadblocks—for both Marcia and Rainey—we do get to see characters and relationships develop over the course of the story. And even more fun for me as reader, we get to find out more about the surprisingly fascinating process of teaching dogs to become the companions that let an emotionally or physically challenged person function in the real world. For example, I had no idea that dogs learn not only from their trainers, but from observing other dogs as well. Kassandra Lamb is absolutely brilliant about the way she showcases the growth of the book’s real stars—the ones with paws and a tail.

**I received this book for free from the publisher or author in order to provide an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**
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janet n
5.0 out of 5 stars read one dog training book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2016
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If your've read one of these dog training books you needn't buy another one they all read very similar
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