Double Booked for Death
A Black Cat Bookshop Mystery #1
by Ali Brandon
Berkley Prime Crime
Mystery: Cozy, Mystery
April 30, 2013
ISBN-10: 0425268462
ISBN-13: 9780425268469
Available in: Paperback (reprint)
This is a Read HumaneTM edition. This May, Penguin Group presents Read HumaneTM—their second year dedicaed to the fight against animal cruelty with a donation of $25,000 (regardless of sales) to The Humane Society of the United States’ Animal Rescue Team.
As the new owners of Pettistone’s Fine Books, Darla Pettistone is determined to prove herself a worthy successor to her late great-aunt Dee...and equally determined to outwit Hamlet, the smarter-than-thou cat she inherited along with the shop. Darla’s first store event is a real coup: the hottest bestselling author of the moment is holding a signing there. But when the author meets an untimely end during the event, it’s ruled an accident—until Hamlet digs up a clue that seems to indicate otherwise...
Ali Brandon, author of the upcoming contemporary cozy series, The Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries from Berkley Prime Crime. Mix a bad-tempered black cat named Hamlet with an unwitting bookstore owner named Darla, add a dead body or two, and you have the kind of fast-paced murder mystery that will make you purr with satisfaction.
And, shhh! Don't tell, but Ali is also Diane A.S. Stuckart, author of the award-winning Leonardo da Vinci Mystery series. To learn more about Ali/Diane and the first Black Cat Bookshop Mystery, DOUBLE BOOKED FOR DEATH (on the shelves December 2011!), go to www.dianestuckart.com.