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Blejz Klement - The Cat Sitter's Whiskers

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Pet sitter Dixie Hemingway is on the prowl again in the newest installment of Blaize Clements classic and beloved series of cozy mysteries, now written by her son, John Clement, using Blaizes notes and ideas for future adventures. Set in the sleepy beach-side town of Siesta Key, Florida, THE CAT SITTERS WHISKERS catches up with Dixie as she heads off for work one morning in the dimly lit hours before sunrise. Her very first client of the morning is Barney Feldman, a Maine coon cat with a reputation for mischief whos guarding his vacationing owners valuable collection of decidedly creepy antique masks. But someones hiding in the house when she arrives, and they sneak up and knock her out cold. When the cops arrive at the house, theres just one problem: no one has broken in and nothing is missing. Searching for answers, Dixie soon finds herself hopelessly trapped in a murky world of black market antiques, dark-hearted secrets, and murderous revenge a mystery only she can solve.

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Acknowledgments

As always, thanks go to my beloved friends and family; to my editor, Marcia Markland, for her vision; to Dana Beck, Hellyn Sher, and David Urrutia for their encouragement and feedback; to Elizabeth Cuthrell and Steven Tuttleman for their support; to Sharon Salzburg, Dr. Anna Owren Fayne, and the men and women of the Sarasota Sheriffs Department for helping me get my facts straight; to the team that keeps me in line: Kat Brzozowski and Quressa Robinson at St. Martins Press, and Al Zuckerman at Writers House; and finally to my amazing and generous readers and fans, who have welcomed me into Dixies world with open hearts.

The ache for home lives in all of us,

the safe place

where we can go as we are

and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

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It was a little after 5:00 on Monday morning when I pulled my bike out and brushed off the dewy cobwebs that had appeared between the spokes overnight. The sky was coal-black except for the vaguest hint of pale pink breaking at the horizon to the east. I knew once the sun got herself situated it would be hot as blue blazes, but for now there was a cool breeze riding in on the waves from the ocean, so I zipped up my hoodie before I rolled across the courtyard.

It was still pretty dark and there was a blanket of fog covering everything. Anybody else wouldve needed a bike lightthe driveway twists and turns through the jungle that separates my place from the main roadbut Ive been riding up and down this narrow lane since I was a little girl. I know it like the back of my hand. Plus, my bike light burned out two years ago.

The crunching sound the bikes wheels made in the crushed shell sent the yellow parakeets in the treetops bouncing around like kernels of corn on a hot skillet. I mouthed a silent, sorry, for waking them up so early.

Im Dixie Hemingway, no relation to you-know-who (as far as I know). Im a cat sitter. I live on Siesta Key, a sliver of sand that hugs the shoreline of Sarasota, Florida, about midway down the state on the Gulf side. On a map, our little island looks like a prehistoric herona slender, feathered dinosaur with long, graceful legs hanging south and a scraggly neck stretching north, with Bay Island as its beak pointing east toward the mainland. I like to imagine its a faithful sentry, keeping an eye on Sarasota and all its suburbs, guarding it from angry sea dragons and marauding pirates (or at the very least absorbing blows from the occasional hurricane).

I mostly take care of cats, but I do have a few dog clients here and there. In fact, Ill pretty much take care of anythinghamsters, lizards, parrots, iguanas, rabbits but not snakes. If I get a call from somebody with a snake that needs looking after, I politely decline and refer them to someone else. First of all, I hate snakes. Second of all, I hate snakes.

Yes, I know were all Gods creatures and everything, but Im not sure God was thinking straight when she came up with the idea of a fanged, slithering cylinder of scale-encrusted muscle that goes around swallowing whole animals alive. Just the thought of it makes me want to jump up on a chair and stay there for the rest of my life.

At the end of the driveway I looked both waysmostly out of habit. At this hour, Midnight Pass is pretty much deserted except for maybe a few early-bird scrub lizards skittering back and forth in search of breakfast, hoping to get a head start on their less ambitious friends. The fog was moving along the road, and as I rolled to a stop little wisps of it curled up around me like baby ghosts.

I took a moment to breathe in the cool, salty air, imagining it filling my entire body all the way down to my toes. This is my favorite time of day, when theres not a soul in sight and all the world is mine. Im not really the type to wake up and loll around in bed half the day reading magazines and eating donuts well, actually thats exactly the type I am, but Id go broke in two seconds flat if I let myself do that, so I always get up early. Its the only way I can manage to fit all my clients in.

I was just about to lean on the pedals and take off into town when something stopped me. I inched the bike out into the road and peered down toward the end of the island, waiting for my eyes to adjust to the darkness. At first all I could see was the faded lines on the asphalt disappearing into the mist, but then something dark floated into my vision on the right.

There, at some indiscernible distanceit could have been a hundred feet, it could have been twenty incheswas a looming, motionless field of darkness, just slightly darker than the black shadows around it. My heart started racing. I didnt know exactly what it was, but I knew one thing for certain: it wasnt supposed to be there.

Slowly, I let my backpack slide off my shoulders and zipped it open with trembling hands. I whispered, Stop shaking, you idiot. Its probably just a But I couldnt come up with anything good.

A few weeks earlier, a woman outside Sarasota had opened her back door to find a six-hundred-pound black bear helping himself to the bird feeders on her patio. The first thing shed done was scream bloody murder. Then she slammed the door and called animal control while the bear lumbered off into the woods.

He hadnt been seen since.

As I fumbled around in my backpack for a flashlight, I reminded myself that a bear would have to walk over one of the two bridges to get to the island, either that or swim clear across the bay, both of which seemed pretty unlikely. Just as my fingers closed around the cold metal of my flashlight, the entire road beyond the dark shape filled with white light, and a moment later two glowing orbs of red appeared at its center.

Well, I thought, its finally happening. Theyve come to take me to their mother planet.

Id read about it. Innocent country folk sucked out of a cornfield and flown to a research lab in another galaxy, where theyre probed and prodded by slimy, mute aliens with eyes big as bowling balls. Then theyre flown home and released back to the field they disappeared from, with their memories erased and nothing to show for their journey except some sore spots in various embarrassing places on their bodies.

As I saw myself being interviewed by Oprah and describing my vivid memories of being a human guinea pig in space, I heard the sound of an engine start up and rumble softly.

The black shape was a car, a dark brown four-door sedan parked on the side of the road about fifty feet past my driveway. I dropped the flashlight down in the side pocket of my cargo shorts and let out a sigh of relief with maybe just a smidgen of disappointment mixed in.

At this end of the island most of the houses are the kind you only get to see in movies or on old reruns of

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