Washoe County Library System

"Theda Krakow is in a funk. Her sometime boyfriend is gone, her beloved cat has died, and the career leap she's made from copy editor to freelance writer has left her finances―and her spirit―flat. She desperately needs a headline. One day, strolling in her Cambridge neighborhood, Theda spies an adorable stray kitten who leads her to an old woman holed up in a decrepit house full of cats. Could this be the story to catapult Theda out of the dumps?...

Theda tries to balance her struggling love life and floundering career while investigating a series of cat poisonings at an animal shelter and the murder of the shelter's veterinarian.