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Sarah Grayson is taking a break from her bustling secondhand shop in small-town Maine to spend time with a friend and her dog. But their purr-fect visit comes to an end when the dog leads them to a storm cellar on a nearby property, where they discover a dead body.
The deceased turns out to be a sticky-fingered financial adviser who swindled millions from investors and who has been presumed dead for almost three years. Unfortunately, suspicion falls on the owner of the property where the body was found—and that owner is a good friend of Charlotte’s Angels’, the senior citizen sleuths who work out of Sarah’s shop. It’s all paws on deck, as the Angels are determined to clear his good name. But with a tight-lipped widow, a possibly shifty sister, and a slew of unhappy investors in the mix, the list of murder suspects seems endless. Sarah, Elvis, and the Angels have a lot of webs to untangle before they can catch the culprit.
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- ISBN: 9780593550250
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- ISBN: 9780593550250
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January 1, 2024
The owner of a secondhand furniture shop in Maine probes the murder of a grifter. The author of the Second Chance Cat Mysteries doesn't seem to know much about felines. Her story begins with the owner of Second Chance, Sarah Grayson, listening to her friend Rose Jackson crowing about how "it's impossible to take a bad picture of Elvis," Sarah's sleek black rescue cat. Black cats are so notoriously hard to get good pictures of that most photographers won't even try. Later on, Sarah's friends reward Elvis with treats like sardine crackers, though much human food is terrible and sometimes dangerous for cats. But Ryan's main problem isn't cats but people. She jams her story with characters but doesn't always explain how they're connected. Mac seems to be Sarah's boyfriend, but who knows? Rose and her friend Alfred Peterson are private investigators, but it's not clear how Sarah knows them. Nor is it clear how she knows Liz French, whom Sarah describes as one of her favorite people in the world. It's out of love for Liz that Sarah agrees to investigate the murder of Ian Stone, who faked his death several years back after his Ponzi scheme was uncovered. When Ashley Clark's dog, Casey, finds Ian's body in the storm cellar of a cottage belonging to Channing Caulfield, Liz asks Sarah to investigate, lest Channing be blamed. Sarah's childhood friend Michelle Andrews, a police detective, warns Sarah that civilian sleuthing can be dangerous. Sarah ignores her counsel, with predictable results. Though sometimes confusing, Ryan's tale is mostly anodyne, unless readers follow her advice about what to feed cats.COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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