In the third Magical Cats mystery, small town librarian Kathleen Paulson and her very special cats must go on the hunt to find a clever killer...
It's been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town's been deluged, and now the local artists' co-op is on the verge of flooding. Kathleen has been up all night helping her friends move their creations to the safety of the upstairs studio.
The artwork survives, but when controversial mask maker Jaeger Merrill is found drowned in the co-op basement, Kathleen questions whether the death was accidental. After she discovers the artist was using an assumed name, she realizes she can't actually assume anything about him. With the help of handsome detective Marcus Gordon—and Owen and Hercules's extraordinary powers of feline detection—it's up to Kathleen to unmask a killer.
I loved this story - the cats have great personalities and all the humans are pretty likeable too. This book had two plots - an old murder mystery and a current one. Both were interesting and even though I guessed immediately who committed the present-day murder, I enjoyed watching the process and the solution unfold. The old murder's culprit was more a mystery to me and I really liked how it came to a resolution. All in all, the book was fun, entertaining, interesting and not a victim of many cozy cliches. A great series.
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