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No one would ever mistake Virginia private investigator and falconer Frank Pavlicek for Ace Ventura. But when the ex homicide detective is asked to return to New York City to help find a physician/animal rights activist’s missing feline, ...
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Overview

--Fourth in the Shamus Award-Winning series.--

This is not your mother’s cat mystery. (With apologies to all you lovers of feline noir.)

No one would ever mistake Virginia private investigator and falconer Frank Pavlicek for Ace Ventura. But when the ex homicide detective is asked to return to New York City to help find a physician/animal rights activist’s missing feline, the stage is set for one of the most bizarre cases of Frank’s career.

Are the doctor’s accusations true? Has the eccentric developer of her luxury apartment building actually hired a hit man to kill her pet by stealing the poor creature and hunting the kitty down with a bird of prey? Turns out, the doc and some of her fellow apartment owners are embroiled in a rancorous legal dispute with the builder. Other pets are missing too and witnesses claim to have spotted a specter-like figure prowling Central Park at night carrying a giant owl.

With the help of his daughter Nicole, sometime partner Jake Toronto, and tough-nosed PI Darla Barnes, Frank soon discovers more is at stake than any of them had imagined. Chasing the mysterious falconer, they stumble upon an anonymous, half-dead child. Darla is shot and seriously wounded. To make matters worse, a reporter more interested in a bizarre story than in pursuing facts interferes along with competing camps of protestors. Not to mention Frank’s rekindled romance with erstwhile flame Marcia D’Angelo.

In the end, both the good doctor and the developer must come clean about their respective agendas, exposing a true evil that has escaped unnoticed. Overcoming such an evil will take every skill in Frank’s hunting bag, the courage of a most unlikely band of survivors . . . and a sacrifice by a heart as big as New York City and all outdoors.
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Publishers Weekly

Frank Pavlicek, an ex-NYPD cop who's now a PI in Charlottesville, Va., returns to Manhattan on a missing pet case in his unsettling third outing (after 2003's Shamus Award-winning Cold Quarry). Dr. Korva Lonigan, an animal rights activist and physician, suspects her angora cat, Groucho, has been abducted or killed, along with other pets belonging to residents of Grayland Tower, an art deco building on Central Park West. The feathers of a great horned owl may offer a clue to the falconer behind the disappearances. Could the "Kitty Hitter" be the Egyptian-American developer overseeing the renovation of Grayland Tower, who's involved in a tenant dispute? Straka ups the ante as the initially lightweight investigation grows darker with the shooting of two gang members in Central Park. After Frank, himself a falconer, finally meets the elusive falconer, he learns more than he wants to know about a far more serious criminal enterprise than nabbing pets. (Aug.)

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When pets disappear from a deluxe apartment building across from Central Park and a person is spotted hunting with a bird of prey in the park, Virginia PI and falconer Frank Pavlicek (Cold Quarry) is asked by a former colleague to help. Daughter Nicole, also a licensed detective, joins him. VERDICT The father-daughter relationship, the layers of plot detail, and the intriguing motive behind the crimes add up to a great read.
Kirkus Reviews
New York City's Central Park may be the center of operations for a catnapping ring. Separating felines from their rightful owners is the crime in shamus Frank Pavlicek's latest case, and Frank's not happy about it. He's a modern-day Sam Spade, not Ace Ventura. Still, the obligations of friendship are pressing, and Darla Barnes had been an NYPD cop alongside Frank before they both went private. More than that, she'd once saved his life. So in response to Darla's call, Frank travels north from Virginia to backstop her in the curious case of the purloined kitten. It will test Frank in ways he couldn't have imagined. His passionate interest in falconry, for instance, will come front and center, along with Los Miembros, a gang of teenage punks famous for never having seen anything defenseless they didn't want to hurt. With the aid and comfort of No. 1 Daughter and devoted assistant Nicole, Frank copes with animal-rights protesters, an enigmatic tycoon with a complex secret agenda, nocturnal ghosts, a giant owl (that may or may not be an illusion) and a variety of other unsettling phenomena. Catnappers? Not so much. A much more solid performance from Straka (Record of Wrongs, 2008, etc.) than its painfully cutesy title would seem to promise.
Jeffery Deaver
"Pavlicek is a breath of fresh air in the field of private eye fiction."
LIBRARY JOURNAL
"A great read."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594148125
  • Publisher: Gale Group
  • Publication date: 8/19/2009
  • Series: A Frank Pavlicek Novel
  • Pages: 268
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Publisher's Weekly has featured Andy Straka as one of a new crop of "rising stars in crime fiction." His books include A WITNESS ABOVE (Anthony, Agatha, and Shamus Award finalist), A KILLING SKY (Anthony Award Finalist), COLD QUARRY (Shamus Award Winner), KITTY HITTER (called a "great read" by Library Journal), and RECORD OF WRONGS, hailed by Mystery Scene magazine as "a first-rate thriller."

A licensed falconer, Andy has worked as a book editor, movie production accommodation agent, commercial building owner and consulting vice president for a large specialty physician’s practice, surgical implant and pharmaceutical sales representative, college textbook sales and manuscript acquisition representative, web offset press paper jogger, laborer on a city road crew, summer recreation youth director, camp counselor, youth basketball coach, assistant parts manager at an auto dealership, assistant manager at a McDonalds restaurant, and even been registered as a private investigator. (Not to mention a longstanding stint as a stay-at-home Dad to six, which makes neurosurgery look like tiddlywinks.)
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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 17, 2011

    Extremely good book, absurdly low price

    Andy Straka did it again! This starts out as a simple story, with a laughingly obvious plot, but develops into a chilling suspense novel. Straka is at his lyrical best in the last half of the book, which is almost impossible to take a break from reading.

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  • Posted July 27, 2009

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    This is a terrific whodunit

    Eagle Eye private investigator Darla Barns asks former NYPD police detective Frank Pavlicek to help her on the case of the stolen kitty. The Charlottesville, Virginia private eye agrees to come back to Manhattan accompanied by his daughter Nicole. In exclusive Manhattan co-op Grayland Tower, several people have complained about a bird of prey the Great Horned owl attacking their pets. The client is animal rights activist Dr. Korva Lonigan who claims her cat Groucho was abducted and probably killed by the predatory bird.

    Darla and the father and daughter team are attacked at the airport. Clues lead to Central Park and Westchester. Further digging connects Korva to the affluent Egyptian-American developer she accuses of being behind the assaults. Complicating the inquiry is the shooting deaths of two gangbangers, right where the Virginians are following leads in Central Park that with each clue seems increasingly sordid and focused on a young Falconer and a bird of prey.

    This is a terrific whodunit as what seems no more than an amusing minor tenant dispute with a landlord turns into a dangerous inner city mystery. The story line is fast-paced and filled with action, but it is the twists that keep on coming yet seem plausible that will hold reader's attention throughout. Andy Straka as he received with Frank's tale COLD QUARRY will obtain plenty of accolades for KITTY HITTER (except for the too clever title).

    Harriet Klausner

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  • Posted October 9, 2011

    Not my kind of book

    Didn't finish it put it on the shelf, not sure if I will return to it

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  • Posted September 24, 2011

    Falconry genre

    All in this series is great..fast paced...good read

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