Catwalk

by Sheila Webster Boneham

Overview

Agility can be murder for cats, dogs, and people!

Animal photographer Janet MacPhail is training for her cat Leo’s first feline agility trial when she gets a frantic call about a “kidnapping.” When Janet and her Australian Shepherd Jay set out to track down the missing party, they quickly find themselves drawn into the volatile politics of feral cat colonies and endangered wetlands.

Janet is crazy busy trying to keep up with her mom’s nursing-home romance, her own relationship with Tom, and upcoming agility trials with Jay and Leo. But the discovery of a body on the canine competition course stops the participants dead in their tracks—and sets Janet on the trail of a killer.

Praise:

2015 Dog Writers Association Awardwinner for Book: Fiction, Young Adult or Humor

"Smart characters and intricate plotting."—Booklist

"For a story that wins a blue ribbon for entertaining readability, Catwalkis purr-fect."—The Free Lance-Star

“Janet MacPhail's latest adventure will delight dog lovers, cat lovers, and mystery lovers…. Five stars forCatwalk!"—Susan Conant, author of The Dog Lover's Mystery Series

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738734880
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	10/08/2014
Series:	Animals in Focus Mystery Series , #3
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sheila Webster Boneham is the author of the Animals in Focus Mystery series. Drop Dead on Recall, the first in the series, won the Dog Writers Association of America Award in Fiction, Mystery, or Humor. She is also the author of 17 nonfiction books, six of which have won major awards from the Dog Writers Association of America and the Cat Writers Association. For the past two decades Boneham has been showing her Australian Shepherds and Labrador Retrievers in various canine sports. She has also bred top-winning Aussies, and founded rescue groups for Aussies and Labs. Boneham holds a doctorate in folklore from Indiana University and resides in Wilmington, N.C. For more information, go to SheilaBoneham.com.

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Editorial Reviews

2014-10-09
When an anti-animal agitator is murdered, it's unclear who wanted him dead badly enough to commit the crime. A phone call about a kidnapping alarms Janet MacPhail even though the caller is her mildly histrionic friend Alberta. Janet is so flustered by the call that she forgets to ask the identity of the victim before setting out to Alberta's with her Australian shepherd, Jay, in tow. The kidnappee turns out to be Gypsy, a cat Alberta has recently taken in. Luckily, Jay has no trouble picking up the scent and leading them to the victim. Unluckily, Gypsy is found on the property of notable local grump Charles Rasmussen, who would as soon exterminate Gypsy as let Alberta and Janet take her back home. An argument about what's to happen with the cat and her new brood of kittens gets out of hand, and soon enough, the police are involved and Charles is threatening to sue all parties. Janet catches a break when the cop involved is Hutchinson, who's slowly been developing a soft spot for animals. However, Charles isn't the sort to let things go. He even dares to show his face at the cat agility competition, where Janet's cat Leo is set to make his debut. Being around pet owners is almost as bad as being around their pets, and Charles has his share of enemies in the crowd. When it later appears that Charles has been murdered, the question is not so much whodunit as whodidn't.Janet, like her animal companions, continues to evolve in Boneham's series (The Money Bird, 2013, etc.) even if the mystery is too slight and silly to warrant much notice.

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