Search - A Cat by Any Other Name (Alice Nestleton, Bk 5)

"Alice Nestleton, beautiful off-Broadway actress turned amateur detective,has ben forced into a life of crime--sleuthing that is--with some cat-sitting on the side. But this hot summer in New York she has taken a hiatus from stage and scene of the crime to join a coterie of cat lovers in cultivating a Manhattan herb garden. Unfortunately, a party to celebrate their first crop of peppermint ends with one of their group going right off the edge--of a 25th floor terrace. Alice is stunned and grief stricken at the apparent suicide. But aided and abetted by her two cats, she soon smells a rate.....

I love light-hearted mysteries that are also exciting like this book. I call them "cozy mysteries". You will love this one and all his books.

Very good, enjoyed.

Alice a former actress, now cat sitter has taken up amateur sleuthing. Her best friend and her husband are murdered. Alice knows it is someone in her circle of friends but not who. She has a lot of suspicions but nothing tangible until her friend a police officer tell her that a friend in her circle has a violent past. Alice becomes the police decoy in a game of life and death. Riveting until the end, excellent mystery.