by Blaize Clement (Clement)
Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter is the first book
in the Dixie Hemingway pet sitter mystery series. There are currently 11 books,
with the first seven written by Blaize, and the final four, after her death in
2011, by her son, John. Book #11 came out in 2016.
We follow Dixie, a widowed,
32-year-old, former Sarasota deputy, as she spends her days taking care of pets
while their owners are on vacation. And like all cozy mysteries, she encounters
dead bodies wherever she goes.
Well written, we get to know her
clients, their pets, her brother (a firefighter), his husband (an undercover
cop), and other assorted characters from town. The well-crafted mysteries
carefully unfold and we end up caring about the cast. In this introduction to
the series, Dixie finds a dead man apparently drowned in the water dish of one
of her clients.
This isn’t great literature, but I
was pleasantly surprised at how engrossed I became in the stories and
everyone’s lives.
The entire series is available as
physical books, with the first two titles also accessible through Hoopla Audio.
(If you enjoy this, you may also
wish to try Cat Who mystery series by Lillian Jackson Braun, Mrs. Murphy mystery series by Rita Mae Brown, and the Chet and Bernie mystery series by Spencer Quinn.)
( publisher’s official Dixie
Hemingway mystery series web page)
Recommended
by Charlotte M.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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If you're a mystery fan, join us for this month's Just Desserts meeting tonight, March 31st, at 6:30 p.m. in the 4th floor auditorium of the Bennett Martin Public Library downtown at 14th & "N" St. -- this mystery-themed discussion group meets on the last Thursday of each month, January through October. This month's theme discussion topic is "Mystery Series Continued by Secondary Authors after the Original Authors Died" -- participants were encouraged to read any "mystery continuation" novel, and the discussion will be in broad terms. For more information, check out the Just Desserts schedule at https://lincolnlibraries.org/bookguide/book-groups/#justdesserts
You can also see a list of this type of mystery fiction at: Mystery Continuations on BookGuide!
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