What do you do when Montana s biggest mysteries land in your lap? If you re Slate Stephens and Daphne McSweeney, you get busy solving them. With geologist dads who haul them around the state, the twelve-year-old detectives have a knack for encountering unsolved cases and landing in heaps of trouble.

In The Governor s Dog is Missing Slate and Daphne find themselves in the Montana capital of Helena. One morning, news erupts across the state Governor Rickson s famous dog Cat has disappeared! Suspecting foul play, Slate and Daphne assemble a list of suspects, including the Governor himself. Then, they set out to prove their suspicions. Unfortunately, the truth and Slate s and Daphne s relationship prove far more complicated than they ever imagined.