As Corinna, owner of Earthly Delights, and her bakery assistant are making breads for her shop early in the morning, an injured and distraught man approaches the back door with a scribbled note from a local helper of the poor, directing the man to Corinna's sweetheart, Daniel. The man, Sgt. Alastar Sinclair, had been beaten up and his dog Geordie, a trained bomb-sniffer from the Afghanistan war, had been stolen from him.
They work to help him, and after they see a video of the assault, they believe the assailants are from one of two violent Eastern European drug gangs. Meanwhile, two of the apartments in Corinna's building are repeatedly burglarized, in an apparent attempt to get some religious artifacts. Thirdly, a local Greek restaurant's computer is infected with malware. Corinna and Daniel try to find out if any of these problems are connected. Their primary quest is to find the dog and reunite him with Alastar, who is suffering from PTSD and feels hopeless without the dog.
Additionally, Greenwood's cast of quirky characters - friends, employees and residents of the building - make this a fast read, with a share of suspense as well as humanity. The Australian terms and idioms give the novel extra flavor.
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