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A Night's Tail: 01/05/24

A Night's Tail

A Night's Tail by Sofie Kelly and Cassandra Campbell (Narrator) (2019) is the eleventh book in the Magical Cats mystery series. Kathleen's brother, Ethan, and his band have arrived to perform in town. On their first night there, Ethan gets in a fight with an out of town investor, who later ends up dead.

With the murder being related to a food allergy, I couldn't help but compare the overall structure to the more recent Take the Honey and Run by Jennie Marts and Cris Dukehart (Narrator) (2023) Whomever killed the man would have to know about the allergy and be trusted enough to get him to eat that first bite.

That said, the bulk of this mystery draws from an even earlier source, namely, Murder on the Orient Express (1934). The dead man has ties to a number of potential murderers. It's a matter of figuring out who held the strongest/longest grudge.

On the romance side, Kathleen is finally comfortable enough with Marcus to let him in on the secret of the Wisteria Hill cats. Honestly, given that he now has one as a pet I'm surprised he hasn't figured it out for himself.

The twelfth book is A Case of Cat and Mouse (2020).

Four stars

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