Murder Past Due
Aug 2010 Ā· Cat in the Stacks Mystery Book 1 Ā· Penguin
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FIRST IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CAT IN THE STACKS MYSTERY SERIES!
Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash.Ā Heās returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough heās entangled in a real-life thriller...
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A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlieās, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerkāand heās not the only one. Godfreyās homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldnāt possibly go worse: by lunch, heās put a man in the hospital. By dinner, Godfreyās dead.
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Now itās up to Charlie, with some help from Diesel, to paw through the townās grudges and find the killer before an impatient deputy throws the book at the wrong person. But every last one of Charlieās friends and co-workers had a score to settle with the nasty novelist. As if the murder wasnāt already purr-plexing enough...
Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash.Ā Heās returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough heās entangled in a real-life thriller...
Ā
A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlieās, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerkāand heās not the only one. Godfreyās homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldnāt possibly go worse: by lunch, heās put a man in the hospital. By dinner, Godfreyās dead.
Ā
Now itās up to Charlie, with some help from Diesel, to paw through the townās grudges and find the killer before an impatient deputy throws the book at the wrong person. But every last one of Charlieās friends and co-workers had a score to settle with the nasty novelist. As if the murder wasnāt already purr-plexing enough...
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4.5
37 reviews
Allen Clayton
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27 January 2014
Writing reminds me of Sue Grafton-- slow moving plot with lots of descriptions. Except for Charlie the characters are a bit flat and I'm not sure what Diesel (the cat) is for except as a prop: he plays no role in solving the case, unlike Lilian Braun's KoKo and Yum Yum. That's surprising since he is on the cover. Overall the book was OK and I'll want to read another one to see the characters develop in the later novels.
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Pamela Foight
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25 February 2015
Charlie the librarian and his faithful cat solve another murder. They are getting good at this. Fast paced and a mystery right to the end.
4 people found this review helpful
Mildred Hall-Pace
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20 July 2018
1st book written by this author. Enjoyed š± and human characters. Plot was
awesome.
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About the author
Miranda James is the New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries and the Southern Ladies Mysteries.
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