Cat Next Door

Marian Babson. Minotaur Books, $21.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-312-20925-4

Cat lovers perhaps more than mystery enthusiasts will jump at prolific (she's written almost 40 books) Marian Babson's latest cozy, The Cat Next Door, in which Margot, a freelance photographer, must determine whether or not her cousin Chloe is guilty of killing her twin sister, Claudia. Apparently as troubling as Chloe's potential fratricide is the fact that Tikki, that haughty, gorgeous Abyssinian, won't come home until the case gets solved and it'll take another murder for that to happen.

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