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Book 57, 2016
Aug. 3rd, 2016 07:41 pmStayed up a wee bit late last night to finish reading The Black Cat Knocks on Wood by Kay Finch. It's the second book in the "Bad Luck Cat" mystery series.
While Sabrina is hard at work on her second novel, her aunt's friend Pearl asks to borrow Sabrina's black cat Hitchcock in order to impart some bad luck on the realtor who submarined Pearl's bid to buy the store next to her candy shop. Sabrina refuses, but when the realtor is later found dead, Pearl is the primary suspect. Sabrina is reluctantly drawn into the investigation when both her Aunt Rowe and her best friend's daughter ask her to do some sleuthing. To compound things, the wicked attorney, whom Sabrina used to work for, has taken up residence in the vacation cottage next door to Sabrina, and Deputy Rosales is hassling Sabrina because she's jealous of the budding relationship between Sabrina and handsome game warden Luke. There's also the small matter of Aunt Rowe wanting to participate in the senior pro rodeo, while Sabrina tries to talk her out of it.
Between dodging her former boss and the bitter deputy, Sabrina asks questions of the people in the victim's life in an effort to learn who may have killed her.
The book was a light, cozy read with enough action to keep the pages turning. The author did a good job of creating several suspects. My biggest turn-off as far as the story is concerned is that Sabrina learned some things that she promised to keep in confidence, yet in the next chapter, she'd be bringing the information up to someone else in an attempt to rattle some cages and get some answers. It was a character flaw that I didn't care for.
Favorite line: I mean, who indicts the candy-store lady for murder?
Four stars:
****
While Sabrina is hard at work on her second novel, her aunt's friend Pearl asks to borrow Sabrina's black cat Hitchcock in order to impart some bad luck on the realtor who submarined Pearl's bid to buy the store next to her candy shop. Sabrina refuses, but when the realtor is later found dead, Pearl is the primary suspect. Sabrina is reluctantly drawn into the investigation when both her Aunt Rowe and her best friend's daughter ask her to do some sleuthing. To compound things, the wicked attorney, whom Sabrina used to work for, has taken up residence in the vacation cottage next door to Sabrina, and Deputy Rosales is hassling Sabrina because she's jealous of the budding relationship between Sabrina and handsome game warden Luke. There's also the small matter of Aunt Rowe wanting to participate in the senior pro rodeo, while Sabrina tries to talk her out of it.
Between dodging her former boss and the bitter deputy, Sabrina asks questions of the people in the victim's life in an effort to learn who may have killed her.
The book was a light, cozy read with enough action to keep the pages turning. The author did a good job of creating several suspects. My biggest turn-off as far as the story is concerned is that Sabrina learned some things that she promised to keep in confidence, yet in the next chapter, she'd be bringing the information up to someone else in an attempt to rattle some cages and get some answers. It was a character flaw that I didn't care for.
Favorite line: I mean, who indicts the candy-store lady for murder?
Four stars:
****
