Crafts and Life

Whisker Jog, New Hampshire, celebrates all things Christmas, and few things are more beloved than the town’s annual holiday cookie competition. Lara Caphart, who runs the High Cliff Shelter for Cats with her Aunt Fran, is waiting for the green light for a brand-new category: pet-friendly cookies. But when the woman filling in as a last-minute judge dies after sampling someone’s Santa-themed treat, Lara’s recipe for healthy cat snacks will have to be put on the back burner.
 
The victim, Gladys Plouffe, was the town’s roundly despised former home economics teacher. The chief suspect is the mother of Lara’s best friend, who was hellbent on walking away with the bake-off’s cash prize. Cryptic clues from beyond the grave only deepen the mystery, pointing to a cat with striking blue eyes—a cat who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lara’s mysterious Ragdoll. As Lara begins a dangerous game of cat and mouse, not even her significant other may be able to stop a perfectly clawful killer from getting away with the purr-fect crime . . .

Linda Reilly has done it again, she draws you into the story and you just can't stop reading!  In this Cat Lady Mystery we have the local flour mill who sponsor a Christmas baking contest, with a rather nice cash prize as the icing on the cookie, this year Lara hopes they will accept her idea to have a catagory for cookies for animals, sadly it isn't to be and so she (and Fran) decide to just sell the Feline cookies to raise extra money for the shelter.  This year the current owner/CEO of the mill has come to see what is happening (he was brought up by his grandparents, the previous owners), but things start to go wrong, Lara is warned off talking to the owner by his PA come significant other, there is a death, people want cute kittens for Christmas presents and Lara's BFF's mother is accused of murder!

Now Lara needs to untangle the clues in the hope that everyone can have a Merry Christmas.