Bye, Bye Love: A Cat DeLuca Mystery
K.J. Larsen
Poisoned Pen, Apr 7 2015, $24.95
ISBN 9781464203855
While private dick Cat DeLuca drives from Chicago to her home in the burbs, her
mom admonishes her for being a “hootchie stalker” and for not agreeing to a
double wedding to her boyfriend Chance when her parents renew their vows. In Bridgeport, the Pants on Fire Detective
Agency owner takes
her dog Inga for a run in a park when they find a corpse. She pulls out of a pocket an envelope
addressed to Cat’s paternal Uncle Joey, a less than ethical cop, containing a
large sum of money. However, before she
acts on her discovery, someone Tasers Cat.
When she regains consciousness, the body is gone. Cat assumes the killer never left the scene
of the crime until the removal of the evidence.
The police including her family of cops warn Cat to stay out of
their investigation and instead encourage her to help her dad with his vows and
her mom by wearing her relative’s foot short wedding dress at a double I do ceremony. Instead Cat makes inquiries that upset
someone who wants the private Jane dead.
The fourth Cat DeLuca mystery (see Some Like it Hot, Liar, Liar, and Sticks and Stones) is an amusing
energetic whodunit. Though stereotypical
stick figures, the DeLuca brood adds humor and their differences to Chance’s
family will remind readers of when the Byrnes
meet the Fockers.
Harriet Klausner
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