Recalled in Cherry Hills
By Paige Sleuth
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Small-town politics can be murder.
A local election for district court judge turns deadly when one of the candidates winds up shot in his own home. Now it's up to amateur sleuth Kat Harper to find out "whodunit."
When it comes to drug offenses, Judge Buck Metzger is a known advocate for rehabilitation over incarceration. His stance is a major reason why he's pulled ahead in the small-town race—until a bullet stops him dead. Now Kat has to question whether his outlook—or someone he sentenced to court-ordered treatment—might be responsible for his downfall. Then again, he could just as easily have been murdered by a resentful opponent caught up in a devastating scandal. And Kat certainly can't discount Judge Metzger's rebellious daughter as a suspect, not when she's set to inherit everything her father owned.
Whatever it takes, Kat is determined to uncover the truth. And with some help from her furry feline friends, she might just thwart a killer's plan to skirt the wheels of justice.
All of the Cozy Cat Caper Mystery books can be enjoyed as standalones but will be better appreciated as part of the series. The books are light, fun cozy mysteries featuring an animal-loving female amateur sleuth, lovable and not-so-lovable quirky characters, and a page-turning mystery that needs solving. None of the books include cliffhangers, bad language, or graphic scenes.
Paige Sleuth
Paige Sleuth is a pseudonym for mystery author Marla Bradeen (http://www.marlabradeen.com/). She plots murder during the day and fights for mattress space with her two rescue cats at night. When not attending to her cats' demands, she writes.Please join her readers' group so she can keep in touch: http://hyperurl.co/readersgroup
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Recalled in Cherry Hills
A Cozy Cat Caper Mystery
Book 32
Paige Sleuth
Copyright © 2020 Marla Bradeen (writing as Paige Sleuth)
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Small-town politics can be murder.
A local election for district court judge turns deadly when one of the candidates winds up shot in his own home. Now it’s up to amateur sleuth Kat Harper to find out whodunit.
When it comes to drug offenses, Judge Buck Metzger is a known advocate for rehabilitation over incarceration. His stance is a major reason why he’s pulled ahead in the small-town race—until a bullet stops him dead. Now Kat has to question whether his outlook—or someone he sentenced to court-ordered treatment—might be responsible for his downfall. Then again, he could just as easily have been murdered by a resentful opponent caught up in a devastating scandal. And Kat certainly can’t discount Judge Metzger’s rebellious daughter as a suspect, not when she’s set to inherit everything her father owned.
Whatever it takes, Kat is determined to uncover the truth. And with some help from her furry feline friends, she might just thwart a killer’s plan to skirt the wheels of justice.
All of the Cozy Cat Caper Mystery books can be enjoyed as standalones but will be better appreciated as part of the series. The books are light, fun cozy mysteries featuring an animal-loving female amateur sleuth, lovable and not-so-lovable quirky characters, and a page-turning mystery that needs solving. None of the books include cliffhangers, bad language, or graphic scenes.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
ARRESTED IN CHERRY HILLS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER ONE
Woot!
Lucy Callahan pumped her fist in the air hard enough to send her shoulder-length red hair swinging.
Startled by the sudden gesture, Tom jumped off of Lucy’s lap and bolted under the coffee table. Only the front of the big, brown-and-black cat’s face was visible as he peeked out from his hiding spot, his green eyes wide and wary. He didn’t seem to trust Lucy not to fully transition into a screeching banshee.
Katherine Harper looked over at her friend and neighbor from her seat across the living room. What is it?
Metzger looks like he’s going to be the new district court judge.
Lucy extended her arm toward Kat and waggled the cell phone in her hand back and forth. The race has been too close to call since Tuesday’s election, but they just updated the numbers and now he’s ahead by five percentage points.
Kat raised her eyebrows at Matty. Perched on her cat tree by the window, the yellow-and-brown tortoiseshell stared at Lucy as if she had declared that dogs were a much superior species to cats. Apparently neither one of them knew their twenty-something neighbor followed politics.
What’s that look for?
Lucy demanded. Don’t tell me you voted for Craig Hollig.
I voted the same as you,
Kat told her. I thought they’d have determined a winner before now though.
That’s what you get for the convenience of living in a vote-by-mail state. When the race is close, you have to wait a few extra days for the mail-in ballots to get counted.
Lucy sat back with a satisfied smile. My friend Bea is going to be over the moon about Metzger winning this race. She credits him with digging her out of a deep, dark mental hole.
How’s that?
He presided over her case when she appeared before him for drug possession a couple months ago. But instead of sending her to prison he mandated that she check into the Cherry Hillside rehab facility on the edge of town. She says staying there gave her the foundation she needed to get her act together.
Kat fingered her brown hair, her chest growing tight. Whenever talk turned to drugs she couldn’t help but think about her mother, a former junkie whose addiction was responsible for Kat growing up in the Cherry Hills, Washington foster care system. And while Kat hadn’t been a ward of the state for sixteen years now, thinking about her childhood never failed to resurrect the old feelings of maternal longing that had been as much a part of her youth as homework and report cards.
Tom, always attuned to Kat’s mood, must have sensed she could use some comfort. He hopped onto her lap, pressed his forehead against her shoulder as if to urge her to hang in there, and then proceeded to fold himself into a cat loaf.
Kat glided her fingers over Tom’s silky fur. The solid, heavy sensation of his body resting on hers had the effect of grounding her emotions. She felt such a powerful swell of love for him at that particular moment that she marveled not for the first time how lucky she was to have met him last summer shortly after she had moved back to her childhood hometown.
Lucy crossed her slim legs. You should hear Bea talk about Judge Metzger. You’d think the guy was a rock star or something. She says she’s going to stake out his house one of these days, and when he comes out she’s going to throw herself at him and beg him to marry her.
That’s quite an endorsement,
Kat replied.
She was only kidding. But she’s not the only one with positive things to say about him. She told me she met several people in rehab who were there for court-ordered stints, and they all seemed equally grateful for the chance to turn their lives around.
Lucy’s words rang through Kat’s head.