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When Madame D comes into the museum distraught, Queenie doesn’t think much about it. The woman has always had a flair for the dramatic. But after reading the terrifying note someone left on her door, Queenie actually wonders if Madame D isn’t reacting enough to the obvious death threat?
Instead of making good on their promise to take her out, someone leaves a body in Madame D’s front yard, making it look like she was the one to kill them. Despite being a woman of means, Queenie and Mercer’s boss can’t buy herself out of this kind of trouble.
What she can do, however, is hire Black Cat Investigations to help her find who really did this. With Mercer Printz officially joining the team, Queenie has high hopes that they’ll get to the bottom of this latest mystery. Now, if they could just get a moment of peace to work without a handful of other emergencies popping up…
Now that they’re getting paid, will they let the pressure get to them or will they be able to creep it real?
The evidence is irre-fur-table.
Whiskers and Words’ newest lost soul isn’t a cat, but a quiet woman named Raven who’s been renting out the apartment above the bookshop. After a handful of months with her new tenant, Lou couldn’t be happier. Not only is Raven beginning to come out of her shell, but she’s also proven herself to be a huge help around the bookshop. Which is why Lou is shocked and devastated when Easton calls to let her know he’s just arrested Raven for murder.
Lou pushes back, assuring Easton that her new friend would never do such a thing. But the detective caught her red-handed, literally. She was standing over the body, holding the murder weapon, her hands covered in the victim’s blood. When it comes to light that Raven had a sordid history with the dead person, it seems like yet another strike against her … to everyone except for Lou.
On a mission to clear her friend’s name, Lou dives into the secretive woman’s past. Will she change her mind about Raven’s innocence once she learns the truth behind why she’s been hiding out in Button?
Autumn has arrived in Seattle, and in the spirit of letting go, the Morrisey is forced to say goodbye to longtime resident Edna Felder. Meg and Laurie join their neighbors in celebrating the woman’s long happy life at a wake that turns into more of a lavish party to commemorate Edna. The celebrating ends abruptly when everyone returns from the gathering to find a dead stranger in the middle of apartment 4D.
When the only eyewitnesses to the crime give conflicting information, the building turns to Meg to figure out who’s responsible. In addition to her ghostly assistance, Meg has Detective Amaya Anthony’s help again, and she’s confident they’ll be able to solve this case quickly. Well, she is until the clues begin to point toward multiple residents within the building.
Will Meg be able to keep the Morrisey together when it looks like one of their own is bent on tearing everyone apart?
