A whisker away from death ...
A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper familyтАФand the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now theyтАЩve swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond. Everything seems purrfect ... until someone tries to kill Mr. Harper.
Now the genteel village feels sinister, the snooty next-door neighbor is acting suspicious, and the house is filled with its real ownerтАЩs secrets. Numerous attempts on Mr. HarperтАЩs life convince his wife that they canтАЩt pussyfoot around. They need to investigate, starting with what the mousy orange cat knows.
Marian Babson is a mystery writer and the author of more than forty novels in the traditional amateur-sleuth style, тАЬmurder most British.тАЭ In 1996 she was awarded the Crime WritersтАЩ Association Dagger in the library category for her body of work. She was born in Salem, Massachusetts, but has lived in London for the greater part of her life. Her many interestsтАФtheater, cinema, art, cooking, travel, and catsтАФare reflected in her numerous novels.
Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones AwardтАУwinning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.