Cat on a Cold Tin Roof (Eli Paxton Series #3)

Hard-luck gumshoe Eli Paxton is hired to find a missing cat—a very important cat, it turns out, because its collar is studded with diamonds worth a small fortune. What starts as a routine search of animal shelters soon becomes a perilous journey through a murky underworld. The woman who hired Paxton is the wealthy widow of a recently murdered financial adviser with an alias and mobster ties.

Paxton finds the cat, but not the collar. Eventually, he’s forced to unravel an intricate plot involv...