Undercover Kitty

December 1, 2020
A case of cat-show sabotage gets more serious when a murder is linked to the crimes. When Sarah Grayson agrees to help out her older friend Rose Jackson and the Charlotte's Angels detective agency, she never guesses that she'll be doing some crime solving of her own. But that's exactly what happens after Sarah allows the Angels to use her clever cat, Elvis, as a way to get entrance to Searsport, Maine's Atlantic Coast Cat Show. Although Elvis is certainly a gorgeous animal, Sarah's never pictured him as a show cat, not even in the Household Pet category. But someone has been disrupting the cat show circuit, tampering with cages and rewiring sound systems, and the Angels are determined to get to the bottom of it. Sarah's stake in the mystery comes after she befriends Debra Martinez and Christine Eldridge, whose cats are also in the show and who both display a welcome sense of humor over the whole thing. Debra and Christine are not only helpful in giving Sarah the inside scoop about the show and its fanciers; they're genuinely fun to spend time with. Then Rose comes to tell Sarah some terrible news: Christine has perished in a fire. Shocked, Sarah resolves to use her connection to the Angels to solve what she's certain is Christine's murder. A by-the-book cat cozy without anything to give it that extra oomph, or meow.

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