Give audiobooks, support local bookstores! Start gifting
By the Scruff of the Neck by Diane DePhillips
  Send as gift   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account
Illustration of person sitting

Shop small, give big!

With credit bundles, you choose the number of credits and your recipient picks their audiobooks—all in support of local bookstores.

Start gifting
Phone showing make the switch message

Limited-time offer

Get two free audiobooks!

Now’s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, we’ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.

Sign up today

By the Scruff of the Neck

$10.49

Narrator Fran Gregory

This audiobook uses AI narration.

We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.

Learn more
Length 2 hours 47 minutes
Language English
  Send as gift   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Maria Magliani arrives home to a frantic call that her pizza restaurant in on fire.  The saucy, recently-widowed entrepreneur speeds downtown to suspicious, smoldering ruins.


On the scene, she encounters rugged, handsome Fire Marshall Clancy McClavey.  The two exchange numbers.


Clancy phones a few days later for two reasons—to report the findings from the fire, and to ask her out.  But before their big, Saturday night date occurs; Maria discovers that she is at the center of two mysterious murders.


A blend of faith, friends, and family speckle the battler—sometimes funny, but always engaging!

Diane DePhillips, mother of five sons and a step-daughter, is well-versed in life’s twists and turns.  A published short-story writer and poet, she resides with husband Mike Bean, in Des Moines, Iowa.

This is her first novel.

Illustration of person sitting

Shop small, give big!

With credit bundles, you choose the number of credits and your recipient picks their audiobooks—all in support of local bookstores.

Start gifting
Phone showing make the switch message

Limited-time offer

Get two free audiobooks!

Now’s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, we’ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.

Sign up today
Give audiobooks, support local bookstores! Start gifting