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CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT SITTER, by Blaize Clement.
Cover copy: Until three years ago, Dixie Hemingway was a deputy with the Sarasota County Sheriff's Department in southwest Florida. Then came a tragic accident. Now Dixie's a pet-sitter on Siesta Key, a lush, exotic barrier island where the people tend to be rich, suntanned, and tolerant of one another's quirks.
As Dixie tries to get her life back in order, pet-sitting is the perfect job. She goes into people's homes while they're gone and takes care of their pets; she likes the animals, they like here, and she doesn't have to deal with people very much. She especially does not have to be afraid that she'll run into a situation that will cause her to lose her hard-won composure.
But when Dixie finds a man bizarrely drowned in a cat's water bowl, she is drawn into a tangled web of danger and secrets. Unbeknownst to Lieutenant Guidry, the homicide detective handling the murder, Dixie begins her own investigation into the whereabouts of the cat's owner, who has vanished. Fans of THE CAT WHO... book series by Lilian Jackson Braun will adore this riveting new pet-oriented sleuth and will eagerly await Dixie's next case: Will duplicity dog the dachshund?
Gender of detective: female
Any resemblance to THE CAT WHO...series ends at the presence of felines. Dixie is broken - that accident took out her family and left her untouched - and she's doing pet-sitting because she can't take the pressures of cop work any more. Except then she's put into a situation where she has to face that kind of pressure.
She still winds up confronting the murderer on her own, and still winds up needing a rescue. But she also figured that out and set up the rescue, so that sort of cancels out. Maybe. Still worth checking out more in the series.
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I have no brain and I must blog. Or at least eat cinnamon toast.
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Cover copy: Until three years ago, Dixie Hemingway was a deputy with the Sarasota County Sheriff's Department in southwest Florida. Then came a tragic accident. Now Dixie's a pet-sitter on Siesta Key, a lush, exotic barrier island where the people tend to be rich, suntanned, and tolerant of one another's quirks.
As Dixie tries to get her life back in order, pet-sitting is the perfect job. She goes into people's homes while they're gone and takes care of their pets; she likes the animals, they like here, and she doesn't have to deal with people very much. She especially does not have to be afraid that she'll run into a situation that will cause her to lose her hard-won composure.
But when Dixie finds a man bizarrely drowned in a cat's water bowl, she is drawn into a tangled web of danger and secrets. Unbeknownst to Lieutenant Guidry, the homicide detective handling the murder, Dixie begins her own investigation into the whereabouts of the cat's owner, who has vanished. Fans of THE CAT WHO... book series by Lilian Jackson Braun will adore this riveting new pet-oriented sleuth and will eagerly await Dixie's next case: Will duplicity dog the dachshund?
Gender of detective: female
Any resemblance to THE CAT WHO...series ends at the presence of felines. Dixie is broken - that accident took out her family and left her untouched - and she's doing pet-sitting because she can't take the pressures of cop work any more. Except then she's put into a situation where she has to face that kind of pressure.
She still winds up confronting the murderer on her own, and still winds up needing a rescue. But she also figured that out and set up the rescue, so that sort of cancels out. Maybe. Still worth checking out more in the series.
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I have no brain and I must blog. Or at least eat cinnamon toast.
Team Mariposa, Blogathon 2010. One more hour, folks. Last chance to sponsor me!