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Look What the Cat Dragged In: A Novel

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"One of my favorite books of the year" —Frieda McFadden

"Garfield meets Rosemary's Baby" —Publisher’s Weekly


From the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Pictures and The Last One at the Wedding comes a new supernatural thriller about a young woman pet-sitting a cat with a mysterious secret, featuring more than eighty pages of illustrations.


Meet Penny Padgett, a twenty-seven-year-old cartoonist in Philadelphia who agrees to pet-sit a very peculiar cat named Godfrey in her home. At ...

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