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Murder past due : a cat in the stacks mystery

2010

Format:	Book
Author:	James, Miranda, author.
Title:	Murder past due : a cat in the stacks mystery / Miranda James.
Edition:	Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York, N.Y. : Berkley Prime Crime, [2010] ©2010
Description:	294 pages ; 18 cm.
Summary:	A famous author returns to his hometown and is murdered. It's up to Charlie Harris, the town's librarian, and his cat Diesel, to find the killer before the wrong person is arrested for the crime. The trouble is, every last one of Charlie's friends and coworkers had a score to settle with the novelist.
Series:	A cat in the stacks mystery ; bk. 1 James, Miranda. Cat in the stacks mystery ; bk. 1.
Notes:	"First in a new series" -- Cover.
Subjects:	Librarians -- Fiction. Cats -- Fiction. Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction. Mississippi -- Fiction.
Genre:	Detective and mystery fiction.
ISBN:	9780425236031 (pbk.) 042523603X (pbk.)
Current Holds:	0
Local Availability:	0 (of 0)
System Availability:	3 (of 3)

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Characters
	Charlie Harris (Male), Librarian, Widower, Father, Recently lost his wife and beloved aunt within weeks of each other; returns to his hometown after inheriting the house his aunt left him; owns a Maine coon cat who walks ona leash; continues his aunt's custom of boarding a few college students each year; investigating the murder of his former classmate turned bestselling novelist
Genre
	Mystery
	Fiction
	Suspense
	Southern fiction
Topics
	Inheritance
	Librarians
	Pets
	Cats
	Murder
	Widowers
	Southern life
	Writers
	Small town life
	College students
	Fathers and sons
	Birth parents
Setting
	Mississippi - South (U.S.)
Time Period
	2000s -- 21st Century

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Summary

FIRST IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CAT IN THE STACKS MYSTERY SERIES!

Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. He's returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough he's entangled in a real-life thriller...

A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlie's, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerk--and he's not the only one. Godfrey's homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldn't possibly go worse: by lunch, he's put a man in the hospital. By dinner, Godfrey's dead.

Now it's up to Charlie, with some help from Diesel, to paw through the town's grudges and find the killer before an impatient deputy throws the book at the wrong person. But every last one of Charlie's friends and co-workers had a score to settle with the nasty novelist. As if the murder wasn't already purr-plexing enough...

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