A Cat with the Blues (Alice Nestleton Mysteries)

by Lydia Adamson | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0451201965 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 12/17/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Wednesday, December 17, 2014
I found this fair-condition ex-library large-print hardcover (different cover than shown) on the charity-sale shelves at a local Hannaford's, and thought it looked like fun. Alice Nestleton is a 40-something actress who's finding it harder to get roles, and who has taken up cat-sitting as a way of helping to pay the bills in between auditions. Her latest clients are quite well-to-do, springing for fancy canned tuna for Frenchy, a spoiled Russian Blue - but they're also in the process of splitting up and are dueling for custody of the cat, among other things. It's when Alice walks in on a robbery-in-progress and witnesses the shooting of the counterman that things start to get grim - and then there's another death, and then Frenchy's gone missing... what's a cat-sitter to do?

I admit that I didn't become enraptured with the story, which included a few too many overdone tropes, including the one where the heroine misinterprets something, leaps to conclusions, and brings more confusion and misery into the story than was really necessary. The plot's convoluted, and involves a number of unlikable characters - and not enough cats, given the premise {wry grin}. Perhaps I was expecting something goofier than the story turned out to be. But maybe someone else will enjoy it!

Journal Entry 2 by wingGoryDetailswing at Margaritas Restaurant, 1 Nashua Dr. in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, September 6, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (9/6/2015 UTC) at Margaritas Restaurant, 1 Nashua Dr. in Nashua, New Hampshire USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I plan to leave this book on a bench or table in the waiting area of the restaurant at around 3:45 or so, on my way in for supper. Hope the finder enjoys the book!

*** Released as part of the 2015 September Sapphire release challenge. ***

*** Released as part of the Crazy Cat Lady release challenge. ***

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