Bone-a-fied Trouble — Carolyn Haines

CATS, COTTON, AND…MURDER --

The worlds of Sarah Booth Delaney's Zinnia, Mississippi and Trouble, the black cat detective, collide in this fast-paced tale of high stakes cotton research, abduction, and murder.

Trouble, the Sherlockian feline, falls in with Pluto, another cat with a yin for detective work, to find the missing Trudy Wells. But the cats aren't alone. Tabitha Kingsley, posing as a psychic medium, has come to the Mississippi Delta to find her missing sister.

Standing in Tabitha's way is the cynical -- and compelling -- Roger Long. Roger manages the vast Long Agricultural Products farm and business. Trudy was his newly hired receptionist -- and possible lover--before she disappeared.

In a world of wealth and privilege, Tabitha must discover the truth of what her rebellious, sometimes law-breaking, sister was really up to. And she must trust Roger to help her.

Trouble and Pluto aid the bipeds in finding the answers -- to Trudy's vanishing act and also to the path to trust.