A Midwinter's Tail

Authors: Kelly, Sofie
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC022040, FIC022110, FIC022100
ISBN: 9780698158658, Related ISBNs: 0451414713, 0553399489, 0553399497, 0553399500, 0698158652
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 336,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Kathleen Paulson is snowed under running her library and caring for her extraordinary felines, Owen and Hercules. But when a holiday fund-raiser turns deadly, she’ll have to add sleuthing to her already full schedule...

Winter in Mayville Heights is busy and not just because of the holidays. Kathleen is hard at work organizing a benefit to raise money for the library’s popular Reading Buddies program. She has her hands full hosting the event. And when a guest at the gala drops dead, her magical cats, Owen and Hercules, will have their paws full helping her solve a murder.

The victim is the ex of town rascal Burtis Chapman, but she hasn’t lived in the area in years. And though everybody is denying knowledge of why she was back in town, as Kathleen and her detective boyfriend, Marcus, begin nosing around, they discover more people are connected to the deceased than claimed to be. Now Marcus, Kathleen, and her uncanny cats have to unravel this midwinter tale before the case gets cold.
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