Cranston Public Library

"Off-off Broadway actress-turned-sleuth Alice Nestleton is just crazy about cats. She's hoping for a merry little Christmas peacefully cat-sitting at a sprawling Long Island estate, where she expects to be greeted by eight howling Himalayans. Instead, she finds herself face to bloody face with a grisly corpse. Alice has unwittingly stepped into a deadly conspiracy of high-stakes horse racing." --

For years, a soup kitchen in New York received money from a donor. The year it fails to arrive sleuth Alice Nestleton discovers he was murdered and no one knows by whom. She decides to find out.

"Alice Nestleton is cat-sitting a beautiful Russian Blue--who also happens to be the center of a raging custody battle. Sidney and Beatrice Woburn are fighting over Frenchy ... so Alice, at the request of the lawyer, is keeping the cat company in the couple's luxurious high-rise apartment. But this profitable job is turning perilous ..."--Back cover.