Cat Mystery Thriller

St. Anne's ist ein strenges Umfeld, und nach einem Jahr in der begehrten Position als Schulleiterin weiß ich, dass ich mir keinen Fehltritt erlauben darf. Manche denken, ich verdiene diese Stelle nicht. Andere wollen den Job selbst unbedingt haben. Und eine dieser Personen will mich zu Fall bringen. Wer auch immer diese Person ist, sie weiß Dinge über mich. Geheimnisse, die ich kaum jemandem anvertraut habe. Und ich habe Angst, was sie aufdecken könnten, wenn sie ein bisschen tiefer graben. Und was sie mir – und meiner Familie – antun könnten, wenn ich sie nicht zuerst erwische...

In a split-second decision that will shatter his life, insurance salesman Jack Spinks stops to help a young woman walking alone down a back country road. After getting into his truck the mysterious young woman grabs the steering wheel and forces the truck off the road, sending it plunging over a cliff and into the woods. What begins as a simple act of kindness spirals into a nightmare as Jack finds himself trapped in a dark and perilous world, hunted by the woman's cryptic pursuers.

After a serious accident leaves Calliope Rose Collins unable to continue with the career that has owned her soul for most of her life, she returns to Foxtail Lake, Hollister House, and Great Aunt Gracie, only to find her childhood friend, Officer Cass Wylander, knee-deep in a murder mystery involving a 12-year-old girl who died in the exact same manner as Callie's best friend Stacy had died 20 years prior. Callie is certain the two deaths must be linked, but Cass has a suspect in custody and the chief of police wants the case closed in order to get the mayor off his back.

Dive into the unexpected world of Emily's Cat Mysteries. Emily lives a solitary life working in IT and writing code, until she is told to work from home. Now is the time for Emily to get the kitten she has always wanted.

Detective Sophie Allen's daughter discovers the body of a reclusive tramp in remote woodland in Dorset. He's been dead for a week. Sophie and her team try to piece together something about his life, but progress is slow. Then a hidden package is discovered near his rudimentary shelter. The police also find out that someone has been in the area asking about the tramp recently. A picture begins to emerge. He was an important member of a commune that had a three-year existence on a farm on the Quantock Hills in Somerset more than decade earlier.

The two parts of being a paranormal private investigator I could really do without are being forced to eat bananas by an animated statue with a potassium fixation, and being put on trial for murder by a self-appointed council of vampire oligarchs. To be fair, I did kind of do it (the murder, not the bananas). But I was kind of saving my girlfriend, who is kind of one of them. On top of this, I've also wound up with a primordial queen of the damned trying to strangle me in my dreams.

It’s Christmas in Tablerock, Texas! The cat-rescuing mother-daughter duo of Ellie and Evie Rockwell just want to find some cats their forever homes for the holidays. Instead, they find themselves solving a real-life Christmas mystery straight out of a storybook.

Audrey’s reputation is spreading, and she is asked to travel to other parts of Sicily to help other towns with their animal problems. When she journeys a short ferry ride away to the beautiful Aeolian Islands, Audrey thinks she has found paradise - until a rival vet makes her life hell - and an unexpected murder pins her as the main suspect.

A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks elderly detective fiction fan Rachel Murdock's obsessive curiosity, and she winds up renting the house next door just to see how things play out. But soon after she and her cat Samantha move in, Rachel realizes they've landed right in the middle of a deadly love triangle that's created animosity among the three families who now surround her.

Sometimes a unique talent is inherited - and such is the case for Trouble, son of Familiar, the black cat detective. Trouble's rather indolent life in the sleepy town of Wetumpka, Alabama is upended when a serial killer arrives on the scene. Trouble begins to apply the skills he learned from his dad and his hero, Sherlock Holmes. When local bookseller Tammy Lynn is attacked at the site of an impact crater, Trouble realizes he must protect his human and solve the mystery of the Silk Stocking Killer.

Cat in an Alien X-Ray takes the Las Vegas gang on a science-fictional roller-coaster ride, as Midnight Louie, feline PI, and company encounter UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy nuts who are too bizarre even for tin foil hat therapy. An Area 51 attraction on the Strip threatens to bring more than starry-eyed enthusiasts to town. Once again it is up to that furballed PI Midnight Louie to keep his crew in line and save them from the attack of the creatures from the beyond...or common criminals that prey on the innocent.

Audrey Smart, 34, has made a major life change, walking away from her life as a vet (and from a string of failed romances) and moving to Sicily to buy a one-dollar home - and embark on a mandatory renovation she knows nothing about. She finds herself busy running the town’s new shelter, while also renovating her own problematic home - and dating again. When Audrey gets a call to find an injured stray in an orange grove at an old estate, the last thing she expects to find is love. The estate owner is charming, handsome - and like no one she’s met before. Might he be a Mafioso?

In Black Cat White Paws, recently widowed Maggie Dahl finds herself faced with challenges on all fronts: life alone in a new town, running a business she and her husband had dreamed of and started together, and now pursuing a killer. Her sister, Gerri, moves from Philadelphia to Lambertville, New Jersey, to support her sister and start a new life of her own. Together, the women search for a murderer, helped in critical ways by their neighbor’s cat. A black cat with white paws. A cat whose independence sets it all in motion and sees it through to the end.

Love is all around as neighbors, friends, and families cope with COVID, violence, and uncertainty. The world keeps changing, but one thing remains clear, Jeffrey and Emily have a home together. The kittens are impatient to grow up and find their humans. And Violet says goodbye.

Emmy thought she had the shock of her life when she learned that the bracelet she found at the backyard was actually Bella's - her trusted babysitter; the person she thought would never do her wrong. But life, as always, had other plans. And those plans are never really what she had in mind. Now's her one last chance to get to know the truth once and for all - and she sure wouldn't let Bella get away with this. Little did she know, something so grave was about to happen - and it could change her whole life if she couldn't fix it right away.

The city is destroyed by a monster werewolf, and an epic battle ensues between the monster werewolf and the military, with the werewolf holding the upper hand. Hauck and his friends are trapped underground by the werewolf and must fight for their lives.

Long awaited! The 28th and last book in the Midnight Louie feline PI alphabet-titled mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Carole Nelson Douglas.

To tourists, bay-windowed Victorian mansions are quaint, peaceful symbols of old San Francisco, but on the secluded hill above Steiner Street, the gingerbread has sparked a bitter battle. Ambitious developers are pushing for restoration and residents are fighting for their homes… until a controversial restorationist is found dead on the job, awash in garish housepaint. Private investigator Sharon McCone is called in only to discover a second bitter feud, this time between the developers and members of the city's powerful architectural community.

Trinity Ashford and her friends are in over their heads this time. When a man is found murdered at Trinity’s best friend’s wedding, clutching the bride’s missing diamond earrings, Trinity sets out to find out who is stealing from the people of Waterfall. Not only is she trying to solve a mystery, she’s trying to plan her own wedding and renovate the “haunted” house her fiancé purchased for them. Trinity and her friends decide to spend a night at the house to see why the neighbors believe it to be haunted and find themselves terrorized by three men in clown masks.

Doug Perkins doesn't dislike cats - he just isn't especially interested in them. But the struggling young London public relations firm Perkins and Tate can't afford to be choosy about the jobs they take. So when Doug is asked to do the PR for a glorified feline extravaganza called Cats Through the Ages, he doesn't hesitate. But it isn't long before he wishes he had hesitated. There are some very valuable cats on exhibit - even a few feline celebrities.