The Cat Next Door
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Returning home to England from New York, Margot finds her family in chaos. Her cousin Chloe is in prison awaiting trial for murdering her twin sister Claudia, their mother has withdrawn into the imaginary world of her romance novels, Claudiaâs fourteen-year-old daughter has regressed to early childhood and refuses to leave her bed, and to top it all off, the family cat has decided to live with the neighbors.
As Chloeâs trial approaches, the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly fraught, and Margot begins to wonder whether someone else is responsible for Claudiaâs death. Is Chloe taking the blame for the familyâs sake? Itâs not until a second murder that the pieces begin to fall into place and the cat agrees to come home.
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Marian Babson is a mystery writer and the author of more than forty novels in the traditional amateur-sleuth style, âmurder most British.â In 1996 she was awarded the Crime Writersâ 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 interestsâtheater, cinema, art, cooking, travel, and catsâare reflected in her numerous novels.
