Reviewed by Jeanne
It’s Halloween in Daybreak Harbor, and this year the town is
trying attract some of the tourist trade that Salem, Massachusetts has
enjoyed. Of course, Daybreak doesn’t
have quite the witchy history that Salem does, but they have managed to nab one
of Salem’s big name draws, a psychic named Balfour Dempsey who has quite the
following. Not everyone in town is on
board, though—especially not Jacob Blair, owner of the inn where Balfour will
be staying doing his readings. Maddie
thinks that’s odd since it’s great publicity, especially as the inn has a few
mysteries of its own—including an unsolved murder.
Maddie is hoping to attract attention for JJ’s House of Purrs,
her cat café where rescue cats are up for adoption and people can enjoy delicious
coffee and treats. She’s not a believer
in psychic phenomena, but she is a believer in helping the town’s merchants
earn money to tide them over the winter when customers are thin on the ground.
The town is going to get attention, all right: just as the festivities are getting under
way, a body is found… and it looks like murder.
This is the seventh in the Cat
Café Mysteries and for me, it’s the most satisfying one yet. Our heroine Maddie seems to have matured a
bit, which is a change for the better. I
liked the slightly supernatural flavor that this one added—it’s handled so that
a reader can believe there are other
forces at work but there are also plausible explanations for most things as
well. I’m looking forward to the next one!
You need not have read any of the others in the series to
enjoy this one.
Titles in order:
Cat About Town
Purrder She Wrote
The Tell Tail Heart
A Whisker of a Doubt
Claws for Alarm Gone But Not Furgotten
Nine Lives and Alibis
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