She is known to have created the fictional character of Sophie Winston as the main protagonist of her novel series. Krista received a lot of inspiration for writing mystery novels from the works of the famous authors like The Hardy Boys, Agatha Cristie and Nancy Drew. Krista considers her career as an author to be her second job as it allows her to give some time to her primary job as a canine cuisine chef, a door opener and a walking assistant. One of Krista’s dogs is a Golden Retriever, with whom she loves to spend her time and go on long walks. One of her cats, a gregarious Ocicat named Mochie can easily open cabinets and can leap to great heights. Krista has efficiently trained her pets to perform certain useful functions. She has a couple of cats and 3 dogs which have inspired her to develop the mystery plots of her novels. Most of her novels depict some or the other domestic animals, mostly cats and dogs. Krista is known to describe animal characters in her novels efficiently. Her liking for different food items can be seen in her novels, where she has mentioned a number of recipes in most of the plots of the novels. Apart from writing, Krista Davis also likes to bake and cook, and enjoy eating her handmade dishes. She has even resided in for a little while in Old Town Alexandria, where she completed her first novel series. Before that, Krista used to live in Northern Virginia and spent many years over there. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, from where she keeps writing her mystery novels.

Krista considers herself lucky to have become an author as she was headed towards a different career path. She loves to her novels in the Mystery genre and has written a couple of highly successful novel series’ including ‘A Domestic Diva Mystery’ and ‘Paws and Claws Mystery’. Now Holly and her furry companions will have to nose out the murderer before someone else gets muzzled.ĭelicious recipes for owners and pets included!Krista Davis is an award winning author from Virginia, The United States. But someone in this friendly town is bad to the bone. One of the employees at the inn has been killed in a hit-and-run accident-which is looking anything but accidental. The staff-and a frisky Calico kitten named Twinkletoes-adopts Holly and her new dog on arrival. Holly Miller's life has gone to the dogs. She has no job, her boyfriend's former flame is sniffing around, and a scruffy but loveable Jack Russell Terrier is scattering crumbs all over her borrowed car. Just when she thought things couldn't get worse, a troubling phone call about her grandmother sends her rushing home to the family inn on Wagtail Mountain. But this tourist town smells trouble when a killer goes on the prowl. The Sugar Maple Inn in Wagtail, Virginia, is the country's premiere vacation hot spot for pet owners who can’t bear to leave their furry friends behind. THE FIRST PAWS & CLAWS MYSTERY FROM KRISTA DAVIS-A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Murder, She Barked by Krista Davis