A Troubling Tail

Informationen zum Autor Laurie Cass is the national bestselling author of the Bookmobile Cat Mystery series. Klappentext "The charming town of Chilson, Michigan, is beautiful in the spring, and the bookmobile is delivering great reads far and wide on one of the first warm days of the year. But a chill sweeps through when they discover that one of their favorite patrons, the owner of Henika's Candy Emporium, has been found murdered. Although Minnie can't understand who could have had a motive to murder such a kind man, she decides that the sticky problem isn't hers to solve. However, when rumors start flying around town and the police have no leads, Minnie decides to throw her investigative hat into the ring. The more Minnie investigates, the less certain she is that the victim's past is as wholesome as his reputation. But Minnie has plenty of experience unearthing inconvenient truths, and she and Eddie won't rest until they determine how the victim met his bitter end"-- Leseprobe Chapter 1 It was the perfect spring day. After an interminable series of dark and dreary weeks that had brought a staggering amount of slushy rain, instilling thoughts of emigration in the hearts of many northwest lower Michigan residents, the thick cloud cover had blown off to reveal that the sun was indeed still part of our solar system. I peered over the bookmobile's steering wheel, looking through the windshield, drinking in the deep blue sky and smiling contentedly. It was May. The month when the trees would leaf out in full, transforming the world. When the hillsides would be covered in wildflowers. When I'd be able to take the thick mittens out of my coat pockets and push my boots to the back of the hall closet. When I could consider moving the ice scraper from the floor of my car's back seat to the trunk. When- "Phoenix," my companion said. I glanced over at Julia Beaton, currently a part-time bookmobile clerk but a former full-time actor. Julia had zoomed off to the bright lights of New York City immediately after high school. Though her modeling career hadn't taken off as she'd hoped, her fallback career of acting had. She, with her husband in tow, had returned to Chilson with a suitcase full of Tony Awards when the roles dried up. Now in her mid-sixties, Julia helped out on the bookmobile a couple of times a week, clerking and telling stories like no one else I'd ever heard. "What about Phoenix?" I asked. "Last week," she said, rearranging her long strawberry blond hair from a single braid into a twisty sort of bun, "it was the only place in the continental United States that had any sunshine." "Huh." Maybe that explained the sudden vacation of Deputy Ash Wolverson and his fiancée, Chelsea Stille. I'd heard they'd gone to Southern Arizona. "Why do you know that fun fact?" Julia smiled. It was a sly smile, and I knew she was about to slip into a self-imposed role. "I know all sorts of things, my dear," she said in a raspy voice that conjured up crystal balls, tea leaves, and tarot cards. "But mainly," she said, returning to her normal voice, "after the last couple of weeks, I was in desperate need of sun-induced vitamin D. I was booking flights when the husband looked at the long-range forecast and saw we were going to get our own sunshine, right here in Chilson, at no extra expense." "Mrr?" our other companion asked. "Of course I would have taken you." Julia leaned down and stuck her fingers through the wire door of the cat carrier strapped to the floor near her feet. "Nothing like sunshine on a furry tummy, yes?" Even over the hum of the engine, I could hear my cat's contented purrs. Eddie, my black-and-white tabby with a penchant for making friends wherever he went, had been on the bookmobile's maiden voyage just over three years ago. Though he'd been a stowaway, it had quickly become obvious that the patrons li...

Product details

• Authors: Laurie Cass
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9780593547427
• ISBN: 978-0-593-54742-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 24 mm
• Series: A Bookmobile Cat Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense