num_pages: 223
description: Theda Krakow is in a funk. Her sometime boyfriend's gone for good. The death of her beloved cat opened a bigger void. And the career leap she's made from copy editor to freelance writer has left her financesand her spiritflat. She desperately needs a headline to get her life back on track.One day, out for a stroll in her Cambridge neighborhood, Theda spies an adorable stray kitten. This charmer leads Theda to an old woman holed up in a decrepit house full of cats. Is this one of those ""crazy cat ladies,"" a classic hoarder, or is the old woman a neighborhood do-gooderMore important, is this the story to catapult Theda out of the dumpsBut when she returns to interview Lillian Helmhold, Theda finds her fascinating subject dead of an apparent accident. The neighbors are celebrating, the police aren't interested, and the cats are removed to a shelter. End of storyNot for Theda--one or two things don't compute. So Theda marshals her investigative journalism skills to turn gumshoe.
language: English
title: Mew Is for Murder
titlecomplete: Mew Is for Murder (Theda Krakow, #1)
genres: Cozy Mystery, Animals, Novels, Crime, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Cats
ratings_count: 886
series: Theda Krakow
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press