Claws for Concern: Book One of The Nine Lives Mysteries (A Sparrow Creek Cozy Mystery 1)

She just wanted a fresh start. Sparrow Creek had other plans.Claire Donovan didn't move to wine country looking for trouble. After walking away from a high-pressure career and a marriage that quietly fell apart, all she wanted was to take over her late aunt's bookshop and figure out who she was without either one.Then her cat found a body.Cab — the opinionated tuxedo cat she inherited along with the shop — leads Claire straight to a corpse in the vineyard's wine cellar on the night of the town's harvest festival. Suddenly Claire is the woman who found the body, the deputy investigating the case can't decide if she's a suspect or an asset, and half the town has an opinion about who did it.But the deeper Claire digs, the more she realizes Sparrow Creek has been keeping secrets a lot longer than one murder's worth. Tucked behind the shop's register, she finds a decades-old photograph of her aunt with a man she's never heard of — and two words on the back: the good years.Now Claire is chasing two mysteries at once: who killed a man nobody in town will admit to disliking, and what really happened to the partner her aunt never once mentioned in thirty years.With a stubborn cat, a wary deputy, and a town full of neighbors who gossip like it's a competitive sport, Claire is about to learn that starting over doesn't mean leaving your instincts behind.Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries with a slow-burn romance, an unforgettable cat sidekick, and small-town secrets that go back generations.Claws for Concern is Book One of The Nine Lives Mysteries. If you love cats who solve crimes better than the humans around them, you'll love Sparrow Creek.