FIRST IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CAT IN THE STACKS MYSTERY SERIES!
Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash.ย Heโs returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough heโs entangled in a real-life thriller...
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A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlieโs, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerkโand heโs not the only one. Godfreyโs homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldnโt possibly go worse: by lunch, heโs put a man in the hospital. By dinner, Godfreyโs dead.
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Now itโs up to Charlie, with some help from Diesel, to paw through the townโs grudges and find the killer before an impatient deputy throws the book at the wrong person. But every last one of Charlieโs friends and co-workers had a score to settle with the nasty novelist. As if the murder wasnโt already purr-plexing enough...