Sunny Coolidge left her New York City newspaper job to go back to Maine and take care of her ailing father. But there's not much excitement - or interesting work - in Kittery Harbour. So when Ada Spruance, the town's elderly Cat Lady, asks for help to find her supposedly winning lottery ticket, Sunny agrees. But when she arrives at Ada's with a stray tomcat named Shadow tagging along, they discover the poor woman dead at the bottom of her stairs. Was it an accident or did Ada's death have to do with that missing lottery ticket, which turns out to be worth six million dollars?

Town constable Will Price suspects the worst, and Sunny's reporter instincts soon drive her to do some investigating of her own. Even Shadow seems to have a nose for detective work. Following the trail of the purloined ticket, Sunny and Shadow try to shed some light on a killer's dark motives before their own numbers are up....

Enjoyed this quick and quirky read, especially the antics of Shadow. As a fan of both murder mysteries and cats, not to mention good looking cops what's not to like. I'd be happy to read more from this author.

Put into plumcrazy's cosy mysteries bookbox.

Taken from Plum-crazy's Cosy Mystery book box. As my TBR pile is massive it may take me a while to get to this.

A really fun and easy read. I have visited this part of the USA and can picture in my minds eye the houses and coastline in the book. I would be happy to read more in this series.

On its way to Nu-Knees in Yorkshire to help stock her TBR pile :-)
Hope you enjoy it!

Thank you very much, yorkshire-lass. I was delighted to receive a lovely parcel of books this morning, so generous, thank you :-)

Unfortunately, this cosy mystery isn't for me. I try the genre from time to time because I think they ought to be and because some lighter mysteries are - but I have to call failure on this one, I'm afraid.
I don't like my crime to be too violent - or, to be more accurate, I prefer any violence to take place out of sight . . . murder's OK but in general I'd rather it was reported rather than described in detail and torture is always unacceptable . . . but at the same time I like some degree of plausibility, something that I can relate to . . . and I didn't find it here! It didn't help that I took a dislike to the heroine!
I hope it finds a more sympathetic reader next time around :-)
Thanks anyway, yorkshire-lass :-)

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