Maddie’s best friend Becky is hell-bent on getting Balfour to help her solve two 40-year-old mysteries―a murder and a missing maid. The town busybody books a secret reading with Balfour and doesn’t want anyone to know why.

The town is going all out for the holiday, hoping to one-up the festivities in neighboring Salem, Massachusetts, and Maddie James is delighted to be part of the planning for the annual happenings.īut trouble brews when Maddie’s youngest sister, Sam, books a famous medium, Balfour Dempsey, to come to town for the celebrations and stay in the local haunted inn―along with his equally famous black cat. It’s October in Daybreak Harbor, which means everything Halloween. 'Fun to read a good message about feral cats.In Nine Lives and Alibis, the seventh in Cate Conte’s Cat Cafe beloved cozy mystery series, Daybreak Island is gearing up for Halloween―but this year it seems like it’ll be all tricks and no treats.

A rogue Christmas saboteur is thrown into the mix to add motives for murder as well as providing humor.' - Kings River Life The issue of how - and why - to manage a feral cat colony is compassionately and objectively examined, realistically tackling its many complications. 'The holiday season comes alive in this fourth Cat Café mystery that makes the most of the wintery days before Christmas. Conte puts forth a super entertaining story with an engaging plot, eccentric characters, and fun banter.' - Mystery & Suspense ' A Whisker of a Doubt is a well-written cozy mystery that brings awareness to a real issue many communities actually deal with: feral cats colonies and how to properly care for and save the cats. 'Filled with crazy cat lady energy.' - Kirkus Was her death a tragic one-off event, or is there something more sinister going on? Maddie has to figure it out fast, before anyone else in the rescue community is jeopardized. Maddie, caught up in the prospect, offers up her sister Val to help plan the event.īut when Val shows up for a site visit at the venue, she finds Jillian strangled with a fancy cat leash-a piece of swag they were intending to use for the fundraiser-leaving Maddie with a lot of questions to answer. Jillian shows up at the cafe and asks Maddie if they can partner on a fundraiser to support the local rescue efforts-and she offers up her celebrity endorser and her celebrity cat to sweeten the deal. The East Coast Animal Rescue League is quite interested in the cafe, and so Maddie accepts a request to meet with Jillian Allen, the executive director. In fact, JJ’s House of Purrs is making such a splash that she’s getting national attention. Maddie James has finally given in to her friend Katrina’s pleas to open up her cat cafe to more than ten felines: they’re now up to fifteen purring friends. In Claws for Alarm, the fifth book in Cate Conte's delightful and cat-filled series, it’s the heart of the busy season, and JJ’s House of Purrs is booming-until a killer is let off the leash.

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