2fer TUESDAY!!!! 2 Books by Rebecca M. Hale

HOW TO WASH A CAT & NINE LIVES LAST FOREVER

CATS AND CURIOS MYSTERIES

Uncle Oscar was truly one-of-a-kind.  Rebecca visited him once a week with  her two feline companions for a tasty fried chicken dinner.  She really didn't know much about her uncle except that her owned a truly unusual antique store right in the heart of San Francisco's historic Jackson Square neighborhood, that featured some treasured artifacts from the Gold Rush era.

No one  was more surprised than Rebecca when her Uncle Oscar was found dead in his store and couldn't believe that he had left everything he had to her.  The Green Vase and all its contents now belonged to her including all the secrets hidden within.  A quirky group of friends, a trap door, a strange key, and even a map.  There was a mystery to be solved and Rebecca and her cats are ready  to down and "dirty" to solve it.

This was a fun mystery, different from other cozies because it doesn't seem the body was murdered.  The mystery takes us through history with a series of clues and deception back to the Gold Rush to find something.  Don't want to give away the mystery.  The plot is one that takes us right to to final pages, trying to piece the clues together.  A very unconventional cast of characters and two very bright and curious cats make this book a great diversion for a few hours hours.

RELEASE DATE JULY 6, 2010

We are back at the newly renovated Green Vase antique shop and Rebecca, Isabella and Rupert have been joined by some green amphibian intruders.  The antique shop is not the only place the creatures have turned up and what does the note left by Uncle Oscar mean?

Rebecca leaps right into another mystery filled with political conspiracy, faked deaths, hidden gold, and cold-blooded betrayal.  Working with her uncle's quirky friends and even his arch enemy, Rebecca and the kitties are on a mission to find the truth "warts and all".

This second book in the Cat and Curios Mystery series again takes us back in history to the days of Harvey Milk, who was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor George Moscone, both were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back. Milk's election was made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics. 

She mixes history with her wonderful tale of the great frog invasion and her characters involvement in San Francisco's politics.  So believable you wonder what parts of this story are true and what comes from Rebecca M. Hale's imagination.  This is a truly enjoyable mystery with plenty of leaps, jumps, and little and not so little cat feet.  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Rebecca M. Hale worked as a patent attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years before taking time off to write her first novel, HOW TO WASH A CAT. The paperback version of the book published in January 2010 and quickly became a New York Times Bestseller. The second book in the Cats and Curios Mystery series, NINE LIVES LAST FOREVER, comes out July 2010.

Rebecca and her cats, Rupert and Isabella, now live in Western Colorado where they are hard at work on the third book in the Cats and Curios Mystery series, FUR IS PRE-FURRED, as well as a new mystery novel set in the US Virgin Islands called THE WATER TAXI.

  

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Publishing. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”