Hired to locate a lost kitten, private eye-in-training Cat Caliban discovers the missing feline and a notebook belonging to the high school basketball hero who was gunned down mysteriously

Two Points for Murder (A Cat Caliban Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Borton, D. B.

Mystery

BERKLEY

Cat Caliban, mother of three and Cincinnati's finest amateur sleuth, goes into action when an old friend, Steel, a Vietnam veteran, is accused of the murder of a former peace activist

Three Is a Crowd

When her friend asks her to look into the death of her uncle, an environmentalist, Cincinnati housewife and detective Cat Caliban's investigation puts millions of dollars, political careers, and her own life at risk. Original.

Four Elements of Murder

After raising her children, "Cat" Caliban decides to become a private investigator, and when she discovers a corpse in her new apartment building, her first case literally falls into her lap

One for the Money

Diamond Books

Reluctantly talked into taking pottery classes with her friends, Cincinnati snoop Cat Caliban is disgusted by her lopsided projects until she discovers the remains of a murdered body in the ceramic kiln

Five-Alarm Fire

Six Feet Under

Helping a paroled childhood peer who is being targeted by a would-be killer, Cat babysits the woman's three children right before Christmas and gets more than she expected in investigative practice. Original.

He's tough and smart. She's tough, smart, and 12.Houston, 1961. Texas' slickest politician has lost his presidential bid to a good-looking naval hero from Massachusetts but gained the Senate gavel. And if President Kennedy wants to put a man on the moon, LBJ wants to put Houston at the center of the moon mission. Sleepy backwater Houston finds itself short on air conditioning just when things are heating up.In a seedy downtown office, a well-dressed out-of-towner hires P.I. Harry Lark to tail two D.C. visitors looking to build NASA a space center, but his client turns up dead in Harry's office. Meanwhile, Harry's twelve-year-old daughter Dizzy is running a lost-and-found out of a suburban garage when she's hired to find a missing father who's supposed to be dead and buried.Find out why Jani Brooks of Romance Reviews Today calls Bayou City Burning "a terrific mystery loaded with humor, lots of excitement, and fascinating, well written characters" and rates it "a Perfect 10 book."

Bayou City Burning (Harry and Dizzy Lark)

Boomerang Books

"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. Raising three kids has given her years of investigative experience, so she determines to become a private investigator and get paid for tracking down lost objects and identifying culprits. She sells her suburban house, buys an apartment building in a "transitional" neighborhood, and begins training to be a detective, only to discover a corpse in an upstairs apartment.As Cat investigates, she is introduced to the dead woman's cohort among the homeless population of the city and, with their help, uncovers secrets that the woman has kept well hidden - dangerous secrets, as it turns out, with a killer on the loose. In the end, Cat's inquiry leads her not only to the habitues of soup kitchens and their activist supporters but also to luminaries from the Golden Age of Hollywood silent movies.In this first book of the popular Cat Caliban series, Cat assembles her colorful cast of helpers and neighborhood hangers-on, including her tenants, a neighborhood teen business entrepreneur, and three cats. The police only get in the way.

One for the Money (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

"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." Sequel to One for the Money, #1 Best Seller in the Kindle Store's list of Top 100 Free Books, January 2021. After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has become Cincinnati's newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. Since no challenge is too insignificant for a trainee detective, Cat takes on a lost kitten case for the neighborhood's preeminent teen entrepreneur. But that leads to a more prominent case: who murdered local high school basketball hero Julius "Juky" Kay, star forward of the Oscar Robertson Rattlesnakes? Soon Cat is crutch-deep in corruption, having sustained her first sports injury while investigating Juky's death. Who better than a woman detective to walk the hormone-heavy halls of high school and force teenagers to tell uncomfortable truths? But can Cat survive a murderous attack by a ruthless killer and a night at the senior prom?

Two-Shot Foul (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

First in a series featuring Cat Caliban, a feisty senior who solves mysteries with help from the tenants in her building.

One for the Money (Cat Caliban, Bk 1)

Diamond

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