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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

The Crime that Binds by Laurie Cass

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Also by Laurie Cass:

Murder on Thin Ice, October 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Book 'Em, Eddie, October 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
No Paw to Stand On, August 2024
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Troubling Tail, August 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Crime that Binds, October 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Checking Out Crime, April 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Gone with the Whisker, April 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Booking the Crook, July 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Wrong Side of the Paw, August 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Dead, Bath, and Beyond, December 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Cat With a Clue, August 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Pouncing on Murder, December 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Borrowed Crime, March 2015
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Tailing A Tabby, July 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Lending A Paw, December 2013
Paperback / e-Book

THE CRIME THAT BINDS
By: Laurie Cass


A Bookmobile Cat Mystery # 10
Berkley
October 2022
On Sale: October 4, 2022
Featuring: Eddie; Minnie
352 pages
ISBN: 0593197739
EAN: 9780593197738
Kindle: B09BTTTS2L
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Mystery Pet Lovers | Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Book Lover

Librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, are ready to pin down a bank robber in the newest installment of the delightful Bookmobile Cat mystery series.

Late March is prime reading weather in the small northern Michigan town of Chilson. Though snowfall and cloudy skies deter outdoor activities, life inside the bookmobile is warm and cheerful. But as Minnie and Eddie are making the rounds to deliver comforting reads, they see something strange: loyal bookmobile patron Ryan Anderson making a sudden u-turn and speeding away. When Minnie discovers the police want to question Ryan about a bank robbery and the death of a security guard, she realizes she’s one of the only people who thinks Ryan isn’t morally bankrupt.
 
When an additional murder victim is discovered, the police immediately suspect her patron, but Minnie isn’t convinced. And when she encounters Ryan hiding from the police, she decides to help him by investigating the crimes. Minnie and Eddie will have to fight tooth and claw to prove his innocence.

Bookmobile Cat

Lending A Paw
LENDING A PAW
#1.0 β€’ December 2013
Tailing A Tabby
TAILING A TABBY
#2.0 β€’ July 2014
Borrowed Crime
BORROWED CRIME
#3.0 β€’ March 2015
Borrowed Crime
BORROWED CRIME
#3.0 β€’ March 2015
Pouncing on Murder
POUNCING ON MURDER
#4.0 β€’ December 2015
Cat With a Clue
CAT WITH A CLUE
#5.0 β€’ August 2016
Cat With a Clue
CAT WITH A CLUE
#5.0 β€’ August 2016
Wrong Side of the Paw
WRONG SIDE OF THE PAW
#6.0 β€’ August 2017
Booking the Crook
BOOKING THE CROOK
#7.0 β€’ July 2019
Gone with the Whisker
GONE WITH THE WHISKER
#8.0 β€’ April 2020
Checking Out Crime
CHECKING OUT CRIME
#9.0 β€’ April 2021
The Crime that Binds
THE CRIME THAT BINDS
#10.0 β€’ October 2022
A Troubling Tail
A TROUBLING TAIL
#11.0 β€’ August 2023
No Paw to Stand On
NO PAW TO STAND ON
#12.0 β€’ August 2024
Book 'Em, Eddie
BOOK 'EM, EDDIE
#13.0 β€’ October 2025