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. Heâs returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough heâs entangled in a real-life thriller...
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A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlieâs, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerkâand heâs not the only one. Godfreyâs homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldnât possibly go worse: by lunch, heâs put a man in the hospital. By dinner, Godfreyâs dead.
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Now itâs up to Charlie, with some help from Diesel, to paw through the townâs grudges and find the killer before an impatient deputy throws the book at the wrong person. But every last one of Charlieâs friends and co-workers had a score to settle with the nasty novelist. As if the murder wasnât already purr-plexing enough...