num_pages: 350
description: Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet ordered life as a retired police detective - a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross a habitual offender dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other - or so decides Tracy in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge. Meanwhile Jackson Brodie the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories is embarking on a different sort of rescue - that of an abused dog. Dog in tow Jackson is about to learn along with Tracy that no good deed goes unpunished.
language: English
title: Started Early, Took My Dog
publisher: Doubleday & Co Inc.