The Day the Cat Ran Away

Viola Weatherspoon and Tyrone Landowski, residents of Glendon Hills Retirement Center, are at it again. Emboldened by their success a few months earlier when they uncovered evidence that exonerated a neighboring resident of the murder of her husband, they become involved in another homicide. This time a former TV anchor, Jeremy Scofield is killed, and his body is found in the county park that adjoins the retirement center’s property. When Cliff Holcomb, the husband of Vi’s niece and the defense lawyer for the couple accused of the crime, has a heart attack and must have surgery, the Rineharts plead with Vi and Ty to get involved fearing their case is not getting the attention it needs. The senior sleuths half-heartedly acquiesce but soon find themselves being drawn further and further into the convoluted twists and turns of the deceased’s life. In the meantime a serious fire destroys the kitchen in the retirement center, and one of the residents is accused of arson. Against Ty’s wishes, Vi sneaks into the injured man’s hospital room to question him and comes away convinced of his innocence. And she can’t bear the thought of anyone being accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Both incidents keep these senior citizens on their toes interviewing everyone involved and looking for a former coworker of Jeremy’s who has disappeared. As they tenaciously pursue the answers to these crimes, they put themselves squarely in danger’s way.