Title: What the Cat Dragged In (Jacques and Cleo, Cat Detectives #1)
First published: March 1, 2007
Description: In their debut mystery, Jacques, Cleo, and the humans they own—Kate Forrest and her son, Jeremy—move to a beautiful beach house in White Sands, Alabama, left to Kate by a distant relative.
The catch is that another distant relative, wannabe novelist and bonafide cat-hater Jake Winters, has also inherited an interest into the house. Undeterred, Kate and Jeremy move in The downstairs quarters while Jake takes the separate apartment upstairs. Then, when a murder occurs, young Jeremy is the prime suspect...but was he framed? And just what did the cat drag in that might prove Jeremy's innocence—and unmask the real killer?

Entertaining, suspenseful, not cliched - you cannot predict what happens next.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and sons, Murder, Single mothers, Cats, Cat owners, Investigation, Inheritance and succession
Places: Gulf Shores (Ala.)