A Cat in the Manger An Alice Nestleton Mystery InterMix eBook Lydia Adamson
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This Christmas, in the newest Alice Nestleton Mystery, Alice will discover that cat-sitting can be murder…
Off-Off Broadway actress-turned-sleuth Alice Nestleton is just crazy about cats, particularly her Maine coon cat Bushy and zany alleycat Pancho. Now 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, sinister seduction, and missing cash. She knows she’d better count on her cat’s clever instincts and nine lives, since her own curiosity has landed her just a whisker away from death…
A Cat in the Manger An Alice Nestleton Mystery InterMix eBook Lydia Adamson
Interesting with a very surprising ending, although character development is a bit on the thin side. The cats are funny though!Product details
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A Cat in the Manger An Alice Nestleton Mystery InterMix eBook Lydia Adamson Reviews
The book was as described and arrived very quickly!Excellent mystery series if you are a cat lover, and maybe even if you are not, altho' most of the books are "cat" based.
"Cat in the Manger" is a ridicious mystery authored by a hack. Our heroine, Alice Nestleton is a off-off Boradway actress, and tries to discover why her old friend was brutally murdered. Soon, she discovers it's connected to horse racing. The exact reason why the man was killed has got to be the worst idea in the history of writing. The conclusion to this over-the-top saga is mind-numbling dumb(and yes, it has a cat connection).
Do you love cats? Do you dream of cold winter days lying cozily on your chaise, a cup of hot cocoa beside you? Do you love cozy mysteries If you answered yes to all of the above, then the new Alice Nestleton series by Lydia Adamson are the right stuff for you. This is a light but highly inventive mystery and I can tell it will be a successful series. In this first installment, we are introduced to a courageous sleuth by the name of Alice Nestleton. She is an off-off-Broadway actress, who is trying to move away from the classical Shakespeare plays and into the new avant-garde theatre. In the meantime, she supplements her vocation with cat-sitting around New York. As befitting a cat-lover, Alice has two cats a Maine Coon named Bushy, and a frightened, domestic gray shorthair she rescued from the ASPCA by the name of Pancho. It's Christmas time and Alice is preparing for her annual cat-sitting job in a run-down horse-farm near the Hamptons, taking care of eight Himalayans for Harry and Jo Starobin; he a famous ex-cat judge and champion animal lover, she his faithful wife. When Harry fails to pick her up at the local train station as previously arranged, Alice is intrigued. She finds her own way to the farm via a taxi. Upon arrival, Alice finds things eerily normal, but it is only when she starts to get settled into her cottage that she finds Harry's corpse hanging from the back of the door. When a second murder happens to one of Harry's friends who lived just down the road, Alice puts her powers of deduction to work. She will have to deal with a pestering detective, Starobin's grieving widow and his young lover who surreptitiously disappears along with a calico barn cat and all her kittens. A connection? Maybe. Alice decides the case is worth investigating when Jo Starobin shows her a very large sum of money her husband left without explanation of how he got it. In order to solve the case, Alice will put her own life at risk, entering into high-stakes involving horse-racing and special cat genetics, geared toward producing miraculous mascots in the shape of calico cats.
"A cat in the manger" has the perfect mix of cat lore and sleuthing. I especially enjoyed the way the cats are very much at the center of the story, but they do not possess special powers. This leaves a good balance for the main character - the sleuth - to play her role naturally. Ms. Adamson obviously knows her craft very well, which involves not only the world of cats, but how to develop a good story thanks to what I sense is a background in the theatre industry.
Alice Nestleton is an actress who makes ends meet by cat-sitting. Every year she heads to Long Island to cat sit for Harry and Jo Starobin, and this year is no different. Except when she arrives Harry isn't there to greet her. And when she arrives at the little cottage she stays at, no one is there to greet her, either...except for Harry's corpse, strung up behind the door. Now Jo wants her to help find out who murdered Harry, because she's convinced it's murder. And even when there's another murder and Alice decides to step back from the investigation, she can't help the nagging feeling she's getting that she's close to something terribly wrong that just might be the right answers after all...
I decided to read this book because it was about Christmas, which I love (except it isn't), and cats, which I also love (except her cats play an extremely minor role - as in practically non-existent). In fact, I can't even think of when I've read a first-in-a-series book that disappointed me so deftly.
This book is, in fact, All About Alice. All about how Alice is an 'actress' but evidently not enough of one to get asked to actually act, since she's gone off the rails and only wants to do avant-garde productions; and I would think that most (if not all) actresses know that if you want to act, you have to act. In other words, take the roles that are offered and then perhaps you can command something you want to do. Which roughly translates to Alice is a cat-sitter who sometimes gets to go on stage. She sure isn't making a living at it.
We rarely get any time at all with her cats; they exist, but not much is said about them. I get the feeling that if Alice was a little more lively, then Pancho might be willing to settle down and allow her to pet him. Alice has no personality, to speak of; she's boring as all get out. She seems like one of those women that you never see smile or show any kind of emotion; which is probably why she likes to act - at least she gets to feel something.
Then there's the factor of Alice's sex life (not love life, sex life). Because she certainly doesn't have a love life, and the person she's decided to have sex with is, well, just that the person she's decided to have sex with. Not to mention she calls him by both names. As in Charlie Coombs. Sort of as if she thinks if she doesn't mention both his first and last names we'll get him confused with someone else named Charlie (we won't; he's the only one in the book). Who on earth calls their lover by both their first and last names even in their heads? That's just strange.
Which brings us to the fact that our Alice is deluded. As in bipolar, or worse. She thinks Charlie is spying on her, she thinks she's being followed (when probably neither are true). You also have the requisite police detective who thinks she's bonkers (and he's not far off) and of course, Alice solves the case (as we knew she would).
Then there's the little fact that Alice was upset because she didn't get to sleep with a man who was (almost) twice as old as she was. That's right; she's 41; he was 79. I. Can't. Even. Imagine. I don't care how funny or attractive he was, he was almost eighty years old and she rues the fact that someone else got the chance to have an affair with him. It's a major 'ick' factor right there.
In the end, this book was all over the place, with nearly every conversation taking place in Alice's head and a lot of them were ramblings on her love life and career - neither of which seemed very interesting. I'm not sure I'd be willing to read another in this series, and I'm puzzled how it went on so long unless it seriously improved.
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Didn't appreciate the language and the story subject. Won't be buying any more! Maybe I'm spoiled after reading all the Cat WHo books, that were wonderful.
It was hard to keep interested.
Interesting with a very surprising ending, although character development is a bit on the thin side. The cats are funny though!
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