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Book 18, 2018
Feb. 23rd, 2018 07:48 pmLast night, I completed the book The Cat, the Collector and the Killer by Leann Sweeney. It's part of her "Cats in Trouble" mystery series, which features forty-something cat lady, quilter, and all around nice person Jillian Hart.
Jillian's life is going smoothly. She's enjoying her status as a newlywed, her cats, and her quilting business. When the town's eccentric cat lady is found wandering the streets in her nightgown, with a kitten in a tote bag, a search of her home leads to the discovery of a dead body. Minnie Schultz seems far too frail to have killed a man, and soon the police are searching for more clues. Their investigation is hampered by the dozens of boxes stacked in the house, as well as far more cats that she was known to have owned. Jillian gets involved when she agrees to help remove the cats from the premises, and she's also the one tabbed to go to the hospital and retrieve the kitten Minnie had with her.
While Jillian's husband, Tom, investigates from a police angle, Jillian helps out by keeping her eyes and ears open. After Minnie's doctor, a psychiatrist, is run off the road and badly injured, it becomes apparent that there's far more going on here than a simple case of hoarding.
Very good story. I enjoyed Jillian's interactions with other characters, including familiar ones and new ones. It took me until late in the book, but I figured out who the culprit was. Woo! Other things bothered me, though.
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Favorite lines:
♦ "I don't call seven or eight cats a hoarding situation. I'd call her a collector."
*cheers*
♦ "She does have seven cats, a tiny fact that pushes her needle toward crazy cat lady, right?"
*cries*
As a cat "collector" myself, I found this extra enjoyable. Giving it four stars. It could have made five but for one bad apple of a character, and the "lather, rinse, repeat" ending.
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Jillian's life is going smoothly. She's enjoying her status as a newlywed, her cats, and her quilting business. When the town's eccentric cat lady is found wandering the streets in her nightgown, with a kitten in a tote bag, a search of her home leads to the discovery of a dead body. Minnie Schultz seems far too frail to have killed a man, and soon the police are searching for more clues. Their investigation is hampered by the dozens of boxes stacked in the house, as well as far more cats that she was known to have owned. Jillian gets involved when she agrees to help remove the cats from the premises, and she's also the one tabbed to go to the hospital and retrieve the kitten Minnie had with her.
While Jillian's husband, Tom, investigates from a police angle, Jillian helps out by keeping her eyes and ears open. After Minnie's doctor, a psychiatrist, is run off the road and badly injured, it becomes apparent that there's far more going on here than a simple case of hoarding.
Very good story. I enjoyed Jillian's interactions with other characters, including familiar ones and new ones. It took me until late in the book, but I figured out who the culprit was. Woo! Other things bothered me, though.
( Cut for Spoilers )
Favorite lines:
♦ "I don't call seven or eight cats a hoarding situation. I'd call her a collector."
♦ "She does have seven cats, a tiny fact that pushes her needle toward crazy cat lady, right?"
As a cat "collector" myself, I found this extra enjoyable. Giving it four stars. It could have made five but for one bad apple of a character, and the "lather, rinse, repeat" ending.
****
