A Novel Way to Die (A Black Cat Bookshop Mystery)

Darla Pettistone may have inherited her great aunt Dee€s Brooklyn bookstore, but it€s the store€s mascot€"an oversized black cat named Hamlet€"who acts like he owns the place. And when someone turns up dead, Hamlet smells something rotten in Brooklyn€¦

As the owner of Pettistone€s Fine Books, Darla is settling nicely into her new life, even reaching an uneasy truce with Hamlet. Unfortunately, when she needs to hire a new clerk, the finicky feline decides to lend a paw to the hiring process. He chases away applicants who don€t meet his approval, finally settling on an unlikely candidate: Robert, a book-loving Goth kid who has a secret only Hamlet knows.

And Hamlet can€t seem to stay out of trouble. One of the bookstore€s regular customers, a man who is renovating a local brownstone, claims he€s seen Hamlet prowling the neighborhood. When the man€s business partner is found dead, Darla discovers that Hamlet may have been the only witness to what could be murder. With the crafty cat€s help, she wonders if they just might be able to pounce on a killer...