Shel McMillan and her crew are at it again in book five in the Urban Tails Pet Shop mystery series. It’s Adopt-a-Cat month in Fox Hollow and Shel is hosting a murder mystery dinner theatre as a fundraiser for the cause. But things take a bad turn when the celebrity chef hired for for the event turns out to by a tyrant, in and out of the kitchen. And it doesn’t help when Shel’s ex-fiance turns up with a plan of his own, complicating things further.
Then the chef is murdered and the outer edges of a hurricane hit Fox Hollow, trapping all the participants in the evening’s festivities at the inn. And one of them is a murderer!
Shel discovers the chef had a less than reputable past and had left behind many women he’d wronged over the years. But who in Fox Hollow had a connection and a grudge?
By the time all the dots are connected, Shel is face-to-face with someone haunted by the past and willing to kill to cover up the chef’s murder.
Any book by T.C. LoTempio is an automatic want-to-read for me and this one delivered the goods as usual. She creates interesting mysteries populated by multi-dimensional characters, including the cats, who often come to Shel’s rescue. It’s a great cozy read!
5 stars
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