Panthers Play for Keeps (Pru Marlowe Pet Noir, 4) - Softcover

Simon, Clea

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9781590588727: Panthers Play for Keeps (Pru Marlowe Pet Noir, 4)

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ISBN 10: 159058872X ISBN 13: 9781590588727

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2014

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"[F]ans of animal mysteries will find plenty to keep them entertained here." ―Booklist

When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn't expect to find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has too good a nose not to lead her to the mangled body of a young woman. Despite her own best instincts, Pru can't avoid getting involved.

The young woman seems to have been mauled by a wild cat―and Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshire woods for years. Wallis, Pru's curmudgeonly tabby, seems fixated on the idea of a killer cat, but Spot suggests that the violent death was something more than a tragic animal attack. As motives multiply, a cougar of a different sort sets her eyes on Pru's sometime lover, and another woman disappears. With panther panic growing, Pru may have to put aside her own issues―and her own ideas of domesticity―to solve a savage mystery.

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About the Author:

Clea Simon is the author of the Pru Marlowe, Dulcie Schwartz, and Theda Krakow mystery series, as well as three nonfiction books. A former journalist, she lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband Jon and their cat Musetta.

From Booklist:

Pru Marlowe’s extrasensory ability to communicate with animals is called for when a dog she is walking finds a woman mauled to death, seemingly by a big cat. But she’s having trouble interpreting the messages the dog is sending her—other than the dog’s great fear. The dog is being trained to work with a wealthy man who is nearing blindness. Pru’s romantic rival for the affections of Detective Jim, Laurel, is fostering the dog until he is ready to assume his duties, but both Pru and Laurel feel something is wrong at the wealthy man’s estate beyond his growing disability. Pru relies on her cat, Wallis, to help her sort animal clues, but her own feelings prevent her from fully understanding what is happening. At times, the reader may feel nearly as confused as Pru, but she remains an appealing hero, and fans of animal mysteries will find plenty to keep them entertained here. --Amy Alessio

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