Book 14, 2025

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Fur Love or Money by Sofie Ryan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


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I squeaked out one last book for the month, finishing Fur Love or Money by Sofie Ryan. It’s the 11th installment in the “Second Chance Cat” mystery series, starring Sarah Grayson.

Sarah and her friend Rose are visiting another young friend when their dog leads Sarah to a storm cellar…and a dead body. The victim, Ian Stone, was already presumed dead, although many thought he faked his death after swindling investors out of millions of dollars. It seems they were right, but now Ian is dead for certain. Soon, Charlotte’s Angels, the senior citizen sleuthing group led by Rose’s beau, Mr Peterson, is on the case. It seemed plenty of people wanted Ian dead, from those he duped to his former wife to his half-sister. It’s going to take some clever investigating to get to the bottom of this case.

The story moved along at a quick pace, interspersed with snippets of Sarah’s downtime. The author dropped one small clue that helped me figure out who dunnit, but I enjoyed reading along as it played out. Characters were portrayed well, and the narrative was sprinkled with humor and romance.

Favorite lines:
♦ “Is it an official meeting if we don’t have tea and cake?”
♦ “I like those two chairs,” I said. // “You like every chair you see. They’re something to sit on, not two kittens.” // “Fine. Just make sure they go to a good home and I want to say goodbye to them before they leave.”
♦ “Do I get to wear a disguise and a wire?” // “No. No disguise and no wire.” // “That doesn’t sound like fun at all.”
♦ “If Earth is flat, why haven’t all the oceans drained away by now?”

And this clunker: I walked down the driveway to meet the officer who was driving and let out a breath I hadn’t realized I was holding when I saw that I knew him.

Very good, four stars