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LAST LICKS

Last Licks, May 2014
A Sunny & Shadow Mystery #3
by Claire Donally

Berkley
Featuring: Oliver Barnstable; Sunny Coolidge
304 pages
ISBN: 0425252558
EAN: 9780425252550
Kindle: B00FX7R9TA
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"Residents dying in rehab. Is it natural causes or does a kindly feline have something to do with it?"

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LAST LICKS
Claire Donally

Reviewed by Auriette Lindsey
Posted December 12, 2014

Mystery Cozy

Sunny Coolidge's work for a travel agency just got tougher. Her boss Ollie is laid up with a broken leg, and he expects Sunny to run courier for him. The stay in rehab comes with a mystery -- it seems people at the home are dying off -- and when Ollie's personable roommate passes suddenly, Ollie demands an explanation. The sheriff doesn't want to put any of his deputies on it, so he assigns the job to Sunny's boyfriend, Constable Will Price. Now they're on a race against the clock to find the evidence before the sheriff's deadline.

Claire Donally has done it again. LAST LICKS is peopled with a variety of interesting characters -- several of whom seem to have motive and opportunity. She really kept me guessing the whole time. The killer was right there the whole time but was still a surprise in the big reveal. I also enjoy the level of detail she gives to all her scenes. It makes it easy to picture everything.

While all this is going on, Shadow begins to act very strange when Sunny returns from the rehab center. He can sense something on her clothing -- another cat, one of the therapy pets at the home. While the humans try to solve their case, Shadow is determined to resolve this mystery on his own.

LAST LICKS is the third book in the Sunny and Shadow mystery series. I highly recommend it for people who enjoy cats and a good whodunit.

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SUMMARY

Sniffing out a murderer…

When Sunny Coolidge’s curmudgeonly boss, Oliver
Barnstable,
lands in rehab after breaking his leg, Sunny is stuck
shuttling between their offices in Kittery Harbor, Maine,
and the facility where Ollie is recuperating. And if
putting
up with temper tantrums from her boss wasn’t enough, his
rehab roommate, Gardner Scatterwell, is a shameless flirt.

But when Scatterwell dies unexpectedly in the night, Ollie
is convinced it wasn’t from natural causes. He gives Sunny
a
new assignmentβ€”find out who killed the old tomcat.

And speaking of cats, Shadow, Sunny’s feline partner in
crime, takes a peculiar interest in the rehab’s resident
angel of deathβ€”a calico cat called Portia, with an uncanny
talent for cozying up to patients right before they pass
away. Together, Sunny and Shadow will have to nose out
clues
to discover if Portia’s jinx had anything to do with
Gardner’s passingβ€”or if all his catting around finally got
him fixed.

EXCERPT

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BOOK SERIES

Sunny & Shadow

Last Licks
LAST LICKS
#3.0 β€’ May 2014
Hiss and Tell
HISS AND TELL
#4.0 β€’ May 2015
Catch as Cat Can
CATCH AS CAT CAN
#5.0 β€’ May 2016

 

 

 

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