Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter

by Blaize Clement

ONE LINE SUMMARY: Dixie Hemingway left the Sheriff’s department three years ago after a tragic accident, and is now a pet-sitter in Florida who frequently comes across dead bodies.

I like reading mystery books and books about animals (as long as the animal doesn’t die), and yet I am not a fan of mysteries involving animals. I’ve tried a few: The Cat Who…series, the Dog Lover’s Mystery…and I largely dismissed them because many animal mysteries seemed to focus more on the animals and not so much on the mystery.

With Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter, Blaize Clement has restored my faith in animal mysteries. This book is similar in style to Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series (the early ones), but contains far more depth in the mystery plot as well as in the character development.

I have already read the second in this series, Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund, and while I enjoyed it as much as the first, I have to wonder how the series will hold up after the number of dead bodies Dixie finds start heading into the double digits. After you’ve discovered 4 bodies within a few months, people aren’t really that keen on giving a petsitter keys to their houses and security code access.

The next book, I feel, should be called: The Chihuahua Sniffed His Butt

Posted by: ssjane | June 10, 2007 | 10:20 pm
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