Book 36, 2014
Jun. 15th, 2014 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeI just completed reading The Big Kitty, which is the first in author Claire Donally's "Sunny and Shadow" mystery series.
Sonata "Sunny" Coolidge has left NYC and returned to her small home town of Kittery Harbor, ME to help her ailing father. She had to give up her job at a large city newspaper and settle for a low-paying job at a tourist office. The town's resident Crazy Cat Lady, Ada Spruance, asks Sunny to help her find a winning lottery ticket that she has misplaced in her home.
When Sunny goes to Ada's, she finds her neighbor dead at the bottom of her cellar stairs. While the death appears accidental at first, Sunny grows suspicious when another neighbor insists that Ada never used those stairs, because she was afraid of falling down them. Sunny begins asking questions, and soon finds her own life in danger.
In the meantime, one of Ada's multiple cats, named Shadow, follows Sunny home and adopts her. A local constable takes an interest in the case, and in Sunny, and there is a budding romance between them.
The book was fast-paced, with plenty of potential suspects. I have a couple more books in the series, and I anticipate they'll be as enjoyable as this one was.
Four stars:
★★★★
Sonata "Sunny" Coolidge has left NYC and returned to her small home town of Kittery Harbor, ME to help her ailing father. She had to give up her job at a large city newspaper and settle for a low-paying job at a tourist office. The town's resident Crazy Cat Lady, Ada Spruance, asks Sunny to help her find a winning lottery ticket that she has misplaced in her home.
When Sunny goes to Ada's, she finds her neighbor dead at the bottom of her cellar stairs. While the death appears accidental at first, Sunny grows suspicious when another neighbor insists that Ada never used those stairs, because she was afraid of falling down them. Sunny begins asking questions, and soon finds her own life in danger.
In the meantime, one of Ada's multiple cats, named Shadow, follows Sunny home and adopts her. A local constable takes an interest in the case, and in Sunny, and there is a budding romance between them.
The book was fast-paced, with plenty of potential suspects. I have a couple more books in the series, and I anticipate they'll be as enjoyable as this one was.
Four stars:
★★★★
