Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof

by Blaize Clement

Dixie Hemingway (4)

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When ex-deputy, Florida pet sitter Dixie Hemingway meets Laura Halston, she believes she's found a new friend and then Laura is stabbed to death in her shower. With the help of her new boyfriend homicide detective Lt. Jean-Pierre Guidry, Dixie investigates everything there is to know about Laura and her sadistic ex-husband.

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Pet sitter Dixie is watching (with the help of her elderly friend, Pete), a service dog to a little 3-year old boy (who needs to be in the hospital for a surgery). Next door, Dixie meets Laura, a beautiful woman who recently moved in. Dixie and Laura quickly become friends when Laura reveals that she recently left her husband and is hiding from him. It’s not long before Laura is found murdered in her house.

This is a pretty good rating for a cozy mystery from me (often they are 3 or 3.5 stars). It’s a light book and a light series, but I really enjoyed this one. Of course, I love the pets in these stories and I love some of the secondary characters – Dixie’s friends and family – particularly her brother Michael, and his show more partner, Paco. show less
Another good one by Blaize. I understand why a writer doesn't carry forward all the details of the life of heroine from book one through sixteen but inconsistencies bother me and interfere with my please in the read. No mention of the cat from book one or the trust for said cat that Dixie manages, she never visits him or talks about his new owners. That really bothers me in a pet lover like Dixie.
Fun, but not very cerebral. It isn't too easy to spot the bad guy, although only a fictional character would end up in Dixie's predicaments.
Florida based cozy mystery series about a pet sitter. Great fun.

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Before becoming a mystery writer, Blaize Clement was a family therapist in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the Dixie Hemingway Mysteries series. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Canonical title
Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof
Original title
Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof
Original publication date
2009-01-06
People/Characters
Dixie Hemingway; Laura Halston
Important places
Siesta Key, Florida, USA
Epigraph
If I were who I would be

Then I'd be who I am not

Here am I where I must be

Where I would be I cannot

---Adapted from "Katie Cruel"
First words
Es war Anfang April, gegen neun Uhr morgens, als mir Laura Halston zum ersten Mal begegnete.
It was early April, about nine o'clock in the morning, when I first met Laura Halston
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ich sah ihn fasziniert und mit dem Gefühl einer gewissen Unvermeidlichkeit auf mich zukommen, in dem sicheren Bewusstsein, dass ich rettungslos verloren war.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I watched his approach with a sense of fascinated inevitability,knowing I was lost but unable to save myself.
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Berenson, Laurien; Conant, Susan

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
LCC
PS3603 .L463 .C38Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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