Book 104, 2016
Dec. 8th, 2016 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeYou know it's a good book when you read it all in one day! The book was The Cat, the Mill and the Murder, which is part of Leann Sweeney's "Cats in Trouble" mystery series.
Jillian accompanies her friend Shawn and an engineer to the old textile mill at the edge of town. The town is in a position to sell the property, but first, Shawn must deal with the population of feral cats, and Jillian has agreed to help him. Once there, however, they find a homeless woman living at the site. When they return to speak to her later, she has been injured and is taken to the hospital. The woman doesn't want to leave, because she insists it's a holy place, and she doesn't want to leave her cat behind.
Turns out, the woman disappeared from town a decade earlier, after her own daughter also vanished. When skeletal remains are found at the mill, the police suspect it's the remains of Jeannie's daughter. Now, everything at the mill must be put on hold, no matter that two factions are fighting over the rights to it. After Jillian is dispatched to speak to the main councilwoman in charge of the sale, she finds the woman dead in her home. Now, the police have a cold case to solve, as well as a recent murder, and speculation is that the two events are linked.
As if that's not crazy enough, Jillian realizes that Jeannie's cat, Boots, is following her around...the only problem is that Boots is dead, and only Jillian and Jeannie can see her.
What an exciting and fun story! So much going on, including the escalating romance between Jillian and Tom, as well as a potential love interest for Jillian's friend Candace. This is the first time a paranormal element has been added to the series, but Boots was a wonderful character, who brought comfort to both Jeannie and Jillian.
Favorite line: If I was losing my mind, I wanted to be the first and the last person to know.
Fantastic! Five stars!
*****
Jillian accompanies her friend Shawn and an engineer to the old textile mill at the edge of town. The town is in a position to sell the property, but first, Shawn must deal with the population of feral cats, and Jillian has agreed to help him. Once there, however, they find a homeless woman living at the site. When they return to speak to her later, she has been injured and is taken to the hospital. The woman doesn't want to leave, because she insists it's a holy place, and she doesn't want to leave her cat behind.
Turns out, the woman disappeared from town a decade earlier, after her own daughter also vanished. When skeletal remains are found at the mill, the police suspect it's the remains of Jeannie's daughter. Now, everything at the mill must be put on hold, no matter that two factions are fighting over the rights to it. After Jillian is dispatched to speak to the main councilwoman in charge of the sale, she finds the woman dead in her home. Now, the police have a cold case to solve, as well as a recent murder, and speculation is that the two events are linked.
As if that's not crazy enough, Jillian realizes that Jeannie's cat, Boots, is following her around...the only problem is that Boots is dead, and only Jillian and Jeannie can see her.
What an exciting and fun story! So much going on, including the escalating romance between Jillian and Tom, as well as a potential love interest for Jillian's friend Candace. This is the first time a paranormal element has been added to the series, but Boots was a wonderful character, who brought comfort to both Jeannie and Jillian.
Favorite line: If I was losing my mind, I wanted to be the first and the last person to know.
Fantastic! Five stars!
*****
