A curious case of a disappearing pig. A murdered historian. A sassy senior sleuth.
If Cat Caliban’s not your favorite crime-solving grandma, you just haven’t met her yet!
Meet Cat Caliban — sixty-something widow, proud cat lady, and budding private eye.
She’s traded in her old life as a housewife for something far more exciting: solving
crimes.
But nothing in her sleuthing career has prepared her for this.
When a local historian begs Cat to find the villain who stole her beloved pig — Gertie,
a cupcake-loving micro-mini with a mischievous streak — Cat figures it’s a simple petnapping. Sorry, pignapping. Until the trail leads to a dead human body.
With the city gearing up for its bicentennial celebrations, Cat finds herself tangled up in a complex mystery involving missing historical papers, a children’s book about a detective with trotters . . . and a cunning killer who’s determined to keep the past buried.
Cat must crack the case, bring home the bacon, and catch a murderer, before she
becomes the next victim of Cincinnati’s deadliest – and oinkiest – celebration.
D. B. Borton is the author of two mystery series—the Cat Caliban series and the Gilda Liberty series —as well as the standalone mystery novels Smoke and Bayou City Burning and the humorous science fiction novel Second Coming.
In graduate school, Borton converted a lifetime of passionate reading and late-night movie-watching into a doctorate in English. She is Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Borton currently lives with Zoe the cat in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she gardens,
practices aikido, a martial art, and, of course, reads.
My thoughts: I really like this series, I love Cat and her rag tag band of associates, from Kevin the bartender to Winnie the dog, Moses the former cop and Leon the purveyor of terrible greetings cards.
This is probably the most shocking case Cat has taken on so far. From a pignapping, she follows the clues to a terrible piece of local history via a writer whose husband (and possibly her brother) had her committed to an asylum, possibly in order to keep her quiet.
The revelations Cat and Moses uncover have repercussions for modern day residents of Cincinnati, which may have lead to a murder as well as the pignapping.
The blend of humour, crime and history is intriguing and interesting, I was hooked from the off, it was such a compelling case. This series just gets better and better.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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Thank you so much for being a part of this adventure x 💚💙
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