Crafts and Life

With a well-placed paw on a keyboard or a pointed stare, Kathleen’s two cats, Hercules and Owen, have helped her to solve cases in the past—so she has learned to trust their instincts. But she will need to rely on them even more than ever when a twenty-year-old scandal leads to murder…
 
The arrival of the Janes brothers has the little town of Mayville Heights buzzing. Everyone of a certain age remembers when Victor had an affair with Leo’s wife, who then died in a car accident.
 
Now it seems the brothers are trying to reconcile, until Kathleen finds Leo dead. The police suspect Leo’s son, Kathleen’s good friend Simon, who had a furious argument with his father and now has an alibi no one can verify. To prove her friend innocent, Kathleen will have to dig deep into the town's history—and into her sardine cracker supply, because Owen and Hercules don't work for free…

I really enjoy these books, the cats are cats … with the occasional what the …..? which no longer fazes Kathleen and she has learnt to trust them and her own instincts.

The latter comes into play when the Grandfather and Great Uncle of the library page (Mia Janes, only child of local developer Simon Janes) arrive in Mayfield Heights, she first meets Victor, Simon's uncle and whilst she is being all helpful librarian she has a niggle that she doesn't care for and then she meets Leo who she really gets on well with and she can see where Simon and Mia's charm come from, so she and pretty much everyone else is stunned when Leo is murdered (no one seems to have a good word to say about Victor and apparently if he had been killed people would have been upset, but hey, life goes on!)

Kathleen is starting to wonder if all this has happened after the local post office had found some undelivered mail (and photographs) stuck behind a wall, now she and her friends (and feline associates) needs to figure out what happened to Leo Janes and what is the tie in with some old letters and so forth?