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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780765318619
ISBN number: 076531861X
Label: Forge Books
Manufacturer: Forge Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: September 02, 2008
Publishing house: Forge Books
Release Date: September 02, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 32789
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Cat in a Sapphire Slipper is the twentieth title in Carole Nelson Douglas’s sassy Midnight Louie mystery series. The tough-talking, twenty-pound, tomcat PI is as feisty as ever as he and his gang try to keep his favorite roommate from losing her man.
PR honcho Temple Barr’s romance novelist aunt Kit has wound up in a romantic plot of her own. She’s snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the elder Fontana brothers, a silver-tongued reputed ex-mobster with a heart of gold. There is to be a wedding…and where there is a wedding there is usually a bachelour party. Things go disastrously wrong when the entire party is hijacked and taken to a remote ranch out in the Nevada desert, a place where the women are wild and the sex is legal. And among the group? None other than Temple’s own Matt, an ex-priest. Truly a fish out of water, he soon comes upon a beautiful young woman who is quite naked and most thoroughly dead. Given the remoteness of the location with very few suspects on hand (plus the Fontanas' shady reputation) this could be a very bad thing indeed. And Louie? Well, he managed to go along for the ride and once again it’s up to that big old tomcat to bail out his humans and save the day.
Cat in a Sapphire Slipper is a fast-paced, racy mystery with a loveable cast of characters and one terrific tough dude to keep them all in line.
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I have read this series from the very first book and each is better than the last. I pick it up to start reading and I didn't want to put it down. I recommend this book to mystery lovers and cat lovers alike.
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Perhaps I should have given it five, because as usual, I was immersed in Louie-land from start to finish. I couldn't put the book down. One thing I missed was the sense of a real relationship between Temple and Matt, though. There has to be something between sexual tension and lack of it. For him, Temple is the very first woman he's fallen in love with, and maybe his one and only. It seems to me that should be a powerful thing, and something he's still getting used to. For her, maybe the lack of feeling is more understandable, though disappointing. She was touched to be at the top of his cell phone numbers, after all. There's also still the issue of having feelings for more than one man, and her fears for Max.
There are a lot of things to like about this one, though. The action had me hooked and the team Louie and Louise put together was hilarious. There's a certain four tail point that made me laugh out loud. I've always been one to love the cat side of these stories, though.
As for the human side of the story, I enjoyed Temple and Matt and their adventure, but I was most intrigued by the glimpses of Max and Molina. In a way, they're in parallel circumstances. He's recovering in some distant (Swiss?) hospital and she's recovering from her stab wound at home. He doesn't know who he can trust, and neither does she, really. He has something to hide and so does she. I'm also grateful Max is still alive. He was too good a character to lose, though I wouldn't be surprised if he does find that heroic death at some point. As for the lady psychiatrist, she was an interesting addition. Interesting too that she disappeared after he proved he was still capable of thinking quickly and surviving. On the Molina side, it was nice to see her coming to some terms with Rafi--and that he isn't quite the bad guy we were once led to imagine. I can't help wondering how Mariah will take the news, if and when it comes out. As always with these books, I'm left wondering what will happen and looking forward to reading the next.
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I love the Midnight Louie series. I have read all of the books and all
are great. I have told all my friends that read (cat books) about this
series.
DJ
Kansas City, Mo
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This book has a helpful prologue introducing the characters just in case the series is new to the reader. The book will stand alone for the reader unfamiliar with the series. It goes on with some very unusual twists, but Louie and friends manage to help their humans clear up the murder and to get things put back together. There is a second story interwoven too, which helps clear up what happened to one of the characters in the last book. The book leaves you waiting for the subsequent one to find out what is going to happen!
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Midnight Louie and friends are the best cat fiction I have ever read. Read all of them... I can never wait patiently for the subsequent one!
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