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Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme
by Carole Nelson Douglas

Just when things start to
make some sort of sense, everything turns topsy turvy and
the twists begin again. Temple
Barr is on the verge of marriage
with her ex-priest neighbor Matt Devine, while her ex-lover
Max (presumed dead but actually not) is trying to recover
his memory and identity in
Ireland
with the help of his mentor magician Garry Randolph. It may
be that Max is not the only one who isn’t really dead! No
one knows for sure, not even the reader!
While Matt is in
Chicago
working on a television version of his successful radio help
line, Temple
is embroiled in another madcap Fontana
scheme to light up Las Vegas.
Their latest venture is a Chunnel of Crime, which would link
two of the Vegas hotels underground, creating a sort of
mob/murder/ghostly/gold digging adventure ride. On board to
help out are the remnants of a real gang of thieves, who
become involved when their lakeside restaurant has to close
because of lack of lake! The water shrinkage also exposes a
pair of leg bones encased in concrete, all of which add to
the atmosphere of mystery as Temple
tries to put the jigsaw pieces of the puzzles together.
An
apparently locked buried safe turns up during the
underground excavations, prompting a Geraldo Rivera-like
expose of what is in the safe! Unfortunately the steel and
lead box only contains a body, and a fresh one at that—a
magician who is linked to the mysterious Synth. Of course
Temple
cannot leave any mystery alone and she is soon embroiled in
some dangerous doings indeed. It requires all the efforts of
her feline private eye buddy, Midnight Louie, his family and
a troupe black cats known as the Vegas Strip Irregulars to
keep Temple alive and out of trouble.
SJ Wolfe
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