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After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has become Cincinnati's newest, oldest funniest detective-in-training. After all, suspicion is second nature to any woman, who's raised three kids. So, she sells her suburban house, buys an apartment building in a "transitional" neighborhood, and begins training to be a detective. She's barely had time to settle in, though, before her first case appears in the form of a dead homeless...
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"Suspicion is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids."
After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban is looking for a new career. Detective work seems a logical choice. So, she sells her suburban house, buys an apartment building in a "transitional" neighborhood, and begins her training, only to discover a dead body in an upstairs apartment. What's the connection between a murdered homeless woman and the Golden...
3) Smoke
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Late one night during the fiery days of the Iranian revolution, two figures slip into the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and steal twelve of the world's most valuable paintings. Here's what the thieves don't know: most of the paintings are fake.
Decades later, when she ought to be enjoying a sedate retirement from the field, Marge Smith remains on active duty as an agent of the secretive Quixote, Ltd. But now, that she's broken her leg in a motorcycle...
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Maybe you think I was replaying this conversation in my head after I yanked the ripcord. Maybe you think that after the parachute jerked me up and after the pain in my near-dislocated shoulders subsided into a steady ache, I applied my investigative faculties to the case at hand while drifting earthward like a fallen leaf, thinking, "This is quite a two-pipe problem."
World War II veteran pilot, Toots Magruder, survived sabotage, criminal negligence,...
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"Mel had explained to me the whole concept of organic gardening, all about nature and balance and natural enemies. So if the Japanese could send us their beetles, why couldn't they send us a Mothra to eat them? Import quotas?"
After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has, become Cincinnati's newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. Death does a land office business in Millins County, Tennessee. Everybody knows...
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"Me, I want it on the record now that I do not want to die hot and sweaty on a gym floor, surrounded by the smell of gym socks and sneakers."
After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has become Cincinnati's newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. Since no case is too insignificant, Cat takes on a lost kitten challenge for the neighborhood's preeminent teen entrepreneur. But that leads to a more prominent case:...
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"When you thought about it, I'd pulled off a miracle getting Franny to attend Fred's funeral in tears rather than picketing it in Birkies."
After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has become Cincinnati's newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. During the sixties, Cat was too distracted by the war on the home front between her activist daughter and her husband to pay attention to the antiwar movement. But...
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After a career fighting crime, six little words still have the power to strike fear in the heart of a retired cop: the sleepover is at your house.
Once the jump-rope queen of Cincinnati, Rocky Zacharias is now an ex-convict with kids of her own and a dangerous secret. And, she's disappeared, leaving behind a cryptic call for help. With Rocky and her kids in the path of a killer, detective-in-training, Cat Caliban and retired juvenile officer Moses...
9) Nine Lives
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In the ninth book of The Cat Caliban Mysteries, detective-in-training Cat Caliban rushes into a burning house to save a litter of kittens and escapes with an armful of squirming fur and a charred skull. The experts say it's murder, but who was the victim? To answer that question, Cat and her partner Moses Fogg go looking for the homeowner, an heiress who was once a show jumper and race car driver, but when they find her, they are still in the dark....
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