A Novel Way To Die
Ali Brandon

A Black Cat Bookshop Mystery
Berkley
November 2012
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Featuring: Darla Pettistone
304 pages
ISBN: 0425251691
EAN: 9780425251690
Kindle: B008EXO66O
Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery

A Bossy Cat, a Homeless Employee, and a Dead Body Which Crisis Does Darla Tend to First

Darla Pettistone may have inherited her great aunt Dee’s Brooklyn bookstore, but it’s the store’s mascot—an oversized black cat named Hamlet—who acts like he owns the place. And when someone turns up dead, Hamlet smells something rotten in Brooklyn…

As the owner of Pettistone’s Fine Books, Darla is settling nicely into her new life, even reaching an uneasy truce with Hamlet. Unfortunately, when she needs to hire a new clerk, the finicky feline decides to lend a paw to the hiring process. He chases away applicants who don’t meet his approval, finally settling on an unlikely candidate: Robert, a book-loving Goth kid who has a secret only Hamlet knows.

And Hamlet can’t seem to stay out of trouble. One of the bookstore’s regular customers, a man who is renovating a local brownstone, claims he’s seen Hamlet prowling the neighborhood. When the man’s business partner is found dead, Darla discovers that Hamlet may have been the only witness to what could be murder. With the crafty cat’s help, she wonders if they just might be able to pounce on a killer...