''Animal lovers will delight'' Ann Granger
''A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine'' Barbara Nadel
''This debut promises to build up into a popular series'' Daily Mail
Clarice Beech has two passions in life: animal rescue and Detective Inspector Rick Beech. She is devoted to the first but she and Rick have been separated for the past six months - life without him is hard.
Clarice shares her other love, for contemporary ceramics, with the charming Lady Vita Fayrepoynt. When Vita''s adopted three-legged ginger cat Walter disappears from Weatherby Hall Clarice is called in to find him. Walter, snug in an old barn, is quite well. But his discovery ends with Clarice in hospital, and Rose Miller, late of the Old Vicarage in the morgue. There is nothing natural about Rose''s death...
Putting their differences aside, Clarice and Rick are drawn together to try to understand
