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Cat In A White Tie And Tails

Cat In A White Tie And Tails, August 2012
by Carole Nelson Douglas

Forge Books
368 pages
ISBN: 0765327473
EAN: 9780765327475
Kindle: B007IM0QUM
Hardcover / e-Book
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"Cold Cases Revisited"

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Cat In A White Tie And Tails
Carole Nelson Douglas

Reviewed by Ellen Hogan
Posted February 18, 2013

Mystery Cozy

Temple Barr is engaged to Matt Devine and they are traveling to Chicago so she can meet his family. Temple was once engaged to Max Kinsella, who lost his memory after an accident but has returned and is once again in her life. At one time Max worked at a magician named Mystifying Max. While in Chicago Temple and Max learn that his mother and his uncle are in love. Louie is almost kidnapped in the airport and then is later taken from Matt's mother's apartment, but he escapes. Back in Vegas Temple, Matt and Max start working together to solve old cold cases involving the deaths of magicians, some of them they knew or were close to. While Matt travels back to Chicago, Max and Temple are involved in an illusion to try and root out the murderer. They have help, of course, from Midnight Louie, Midnight Louise and their friends.

CAT IN A WHITE TIE AND TALES by Carole Nelson Douglas is the newest book in her Midnight Louie series. Each chapter is told by a different character, most of them by either Temple, Midnight Louie or Midnight Louise. There are some humorous parts to the storyline along with the mystery. A side story is the relationship between Matt's mother and his uncle that culminates in marriage. Since I had not read any of the other books in the series, it was a little hard for me to get into the story and keep everyone straight. However, I did enjoy the book in the end and am sure that fans of Ms. Douglas will love this new addition to the Midnight Louie series.

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SUMMARY

In Carole Nelson Douglas' Cat in a White Tie and Tails, Midnight Louie goes along as chaperone when PR whiz Temple Barr and her fiance, rising media star Matt Devine, head to Chicago so she can meet his family. Matt's mother has a tragic past primed to rise and bite anybody in reach, even the ex-alley cat sleuth. When Louie is snatched, the catnapping's surprising motive loops back to Vegas and a string of unsolved murders connected to magic…and ex-magician Max Kinsella, Temple's former significant other.

Skeptical homicide lieutenant C. R. Molina has commissioned Max to investigate the cold case murder she suspects he committed two years earlier. With traumatic amnesia from a recent attempt on his life, the once infallible Max is more sitting duck than predator. It will take an alliance of frenemies to solve the serial deaths before one of them joins the fatality list.


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