The Telltale Turtle (Pet Psychic Mystery Series #1)

by Joyce Lavene, Jim Lavene

Overview

Mary Catherine has a rare gift—she can talk to animals. A flamboyantly dressed four-time widow, Mary Catherine pulls top ratings for her pet psychic radio show and helps run an animal shelter. Then one day Mary Catherine hears pitiful thoughts of anguish coming from a house. Rushing inside to help, she finds an injured turtle crying bloody murder—and the dead body of his owner, a society matriarch with a fortune, lying nearby.

By tuning into Tommy the turtle's thoughts and memories, Mary Catherine becomes a vital, if ridiculed, resource for the detectives. But now a psycho caller is threatening the lives of Mary Catherine and Baylor, her haughty and overprotective tabby cat, while dangling clues in front of her like bait. Despite the annoying charms of PI Charlie Dowd—aka, potential husband number five—can Mary Catherine use her talent to find a killer more cold-blooded than the star witness?

Includes recipes for pet treats!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738720555
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Series:	Pet Psychic Mystery Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	467 KB

About the Author

Bestselling authors and award-winning photojournalists, Joyce and Jim Lavene, are a husband and wife team who started writing novels in 1999 and have had more than 40 books published to date. In addition to their books, the Lavenes have published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, including a syndicated garden column for their local North Carolina papers. Somewhere along the way, they decided to write mysteries and since then, they have been hooked on the genre. 

They currently write four mystery series and work for a small newspaper in Stanly County, North Carolina. When they aren't promoting their books, coming up with new ideas for books, or taking photos of sweet potatoes that look like guinea pigs and congressmen who look like sweet potatoes, they spend time with their family (3 children, 5 grandchildren), their dog (Bear) and their cat (Quincy) who “help” them write.

Bestselling authors and award-winning photojournalists, Joyce and Jim Lavene, are a husband and wife team who started writing novels in 1999 and have had more than 40 books published to date. In addition to their books, the Lavenes have published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, including a syndicated garden column for their local North Carolina papers. Somewhere along the way, they decided to write mysteries and since then, they have been hooked on the genre. 

They currently write four mystery series and work for a small newspaper in Stanly County, North Carolina. When they aren't promoting their books, coming up with new ideas for books, or taking photos of sweet potatoes that look like guinea pigs and congressmen who look like sweet potatoes, they spend time with their family (3 children, 5 grandchildren), their dog (Bear) and their cat (Quincy) who “help” them write.

Editorial Reviews

A distress call embroils a pet psychic in a murder investigation. When her aunt left her a run-down property in Wilmington, N.C., much-married widow Mary Catherine Roberts converted the upstairs of the old building to an apartment for herself and her cat Baylor while using the downstairs as a short-term animal shelter. On the way home from radio station WRSC, where she hosts a popular pet show, animal psychic Mary Catherine "hears" plaintive cries from a nearby house and discovers a wounded turtle and the dead body of her station manager Colin Jamison's wealthy aunt. The police are naturally skeptical when she explains that she heard the turtle's thoughts. They believe Colin murdered his aunt for her money. After Mary Catherine meets attractive cop-turned-private eye Charlie Dowd, events take a turn for the worse. She begins to get threatening phone calls at her talk show; Colin is caught in an affair with the wife of one of Charlie's clients; and Baylor is almost cat-napped. Does Mary Catherine dare trust Charlie, who has some psychic secrets of his own, with her life? Although the turtle can't identify the killer, Mary Catherine gets enough tips from the animals to help her break the case. This kickoff to a new series from the Lavenes (Perfect Poison, 2008, etc.) should score with both mystery and pet lovers.

Kirkus Reviews

"This kickoff to a new series from the Lavenes should score with both mystery and pet lovers."—Kirkus Reviews

"Essential for pet-mystery readers."—Booklist

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