A Cat’s Nose for Murder
A Cat’s Nose for Murder: A Forgotten Village Magical Mystery is book two in Jacqueline Diamond’s second and last installment of her Forgotten Village mysteries. In book one, Chess is kidnapped by her own car, which transports her to the quaint town of Loobly, the village of her forgotten childhood. She and her mom fled town for fear of their lives when Chess was a pre-teen. A fog surrounds the town robbing anyone of their memories if entered on the way to Over There, the Loobly reference to California and everyplace else in the natural world.
Chess, an orphan whose mom died from cancer and whose father was murdered, is now the town’s librarian, a job she inherited after her grandmother died. With town records at her fingertips and supernatural powers enabling her to communicate with her cat Kafka, Chess is beginning to feel at home in this magical realm until someone dumps the body of her worst enemy on her property.
People with a grudge against her family try to pin the wrap on Chess, but the budding sleuth sees it as an opportunity to solve the murder and perhaps lead to the person who killed her father.
A Cat’s Nose for Murder has well developed characters readers can love, like Kafka and his cat friends, or hate, like the phony Theta Grummel, the town soothsayer. The plot is packed with action, kidnapping, and smuggling with a love interest for Chess in the charming Detective Nik Kouzel.
I enjoy murder mysteries, and A Cat’s Nose for Murder delivers nicely in a unique world created by Diamond’s active imagination. One can only hope she will add a third mystery to the series in the future.
About the Author
Jacqueline Diamond, a USA Today bestselling author, writes romantic comedies, medical romances, and mysteries. She lives in Southern California. You can learn more about her at jacquelinediamond.net.
