Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter by Blaize Clement

I live on Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida, and so do all my clients. I’m Dixie Hemingway, no relation to you know who. If a robber broke into my apartment, it wouldn’t be to rip off my Patsy Cline CDs, it would be for my key ring. I carry them on a big round ring like a French chatelaine. It was about 3:30 Thursday afternoon when I stopped by Marilee Doerring’s house to pick up a new key. book series by Lilian Jackson Braun will adore this riveting new pet-oriented sleuth and will eagerly await Dixie's next case: Will duplicity dog the dachshund? Read more Unbeknownst to Lieutenant Guidry, the homicide detective handling the murder, Dixie begins her own investigation into the whereabouts of the cat's owner, who has now vanished. She especially does not have to be afraid that she'll run into a situation that will cause her to lose her hard-won composure.īut when Dixie finds a man bizarrely drowned in a cat's water bowl, she is drawn into a tangled web of danger and secrets. She goes into people's homes while they're gone and takes care of their pets she likes the animals, they like her, and she doesn't have to deal with people very much.

Now Dixie's a pet-sitter on Siesta Key, a lush, exotic barrier island where the people tend to be rich, suntanned, and tolerant of one another's quirks.Īs Dixie tried to get her life back in order, pet-sitting is the perfect job.

(Jan.Until three years ago, Dixie Hemingway was a deputy with the Sarasota County Sherriff's Department in southwest Florida.

The difficulties and humor inherent to the pet-sitting business, a local law-enforcement hunk with romantic potential and crisp writing all bode well for future entries in the series. With sensitivity and insight, Clement develops a plot line involving a bigoted, Bible-thumping radio psychologist, Carl Winnick his repressed wife, Olga and their gay teenage son, Phillip, who's a talented pianist. Unfortunately, when Dixie locates Marilee, she, too, is dead. The contact person (a requirement when you leave an animal with a sitting service) has no clue where Ghost's owner, gorgeous Marilee Doerring, could have gone or why her locks were changed before she left. When Dixie calls early one morning on her latest client, a silver-blue Abyssinian named Ghost, she finds a dead man face down in the cat bowl. Clement's assured cozy debut introduces an appealing heroine, 32-year-old Dixie Hemingway, who's given up her stressful job as a sheriff's deputy in Sarasota, Fla., to become a professional pet sitter.

Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter by Blaize Clement