Claws for Concern: A Small-Town Cat Café Cozy Mystery

The claw marks pointed straight at the shelter's own cats. The truth pointed somewhere far more dangerous. When Maple Hollow hosts its first Community Cat Show — sponsored by a prestigious purebred cattery and benefiting the local animal shelter — café owner Clara Whiskerton expects ribbons, rivalry, and maybe a little competitive fussing over grooming technique. She doesn't expect the show's veterinarian turning up dead in the equipment barn, his wounds looking, at first horrified glance, unmistakably like the work of claws. As panic spreads and the town turns on its own beloved shelter, Clara has to move fast: forensics prove no animal could have made those wounds, which means someone deliberately staged the scene to destroy the very cause she's spent the last year protecting. With a desperate cattery owner facing financial ruin, a rival handler nursing a public grudge, and every rescue cat in town suddenly one accusation away from seizure, Clara has to find the truth before fear does something no evidence ever could. Claws for Concern is Book 4 in the Maple Hollow Mysteries, a clean, cozy series full of small-town charm, a lovable tabby cat, and a murder to solve before the coffee gets cold.