Not a Creature Was Purring by Krista Davis

Not a Creature Was Purring by Krista Davis ISBN-13: 9781101988589 Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime Released: Nov. 7, 2017

Source: Review copy from the publisher.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
In the pet-friendly town of Wagtail, Virginia. Inspired by her German heritage, Holly's grandmother has arranged for Wagtail to have a Christkindl Market packed with goodies and decorations for the howliday tourists. But Holly's mood takes an unseasonable turn when she learns that her old flame and childhood friend Holmes Richardson has brought his fiancee home--and she'll be staying at the Sugar Maple Inn...

A love triangle becomes the last thing on Holly's mind when her Jack Russell Trixie's nose for trouble leads her to the corpse of a pet clothing tycoon. Now Holly and her dedicated detectives--Trixie and Twinkletoes the cat--must sniff out the killer to keep Christmas from going to the dogs...


My Review:
Not a Creature Was Purring is a cozy mystery. It's the fifth book in a series. You don't need to read the previous books to understand this story, and this book didn't spoil the previous ones. Holly's dog has a talent for finding dead bodies, and her cat likes to snag clues.

Holly is a mature, nice person whose inn happened to house the main suspects, a family who squabbles every Christmas. When the rich patriarch of the family dies, the family wants to know who gets the money and Holly wants to know who had a motive. Since everyone was acting suspicious and potentially had a motive, this didn't get Holly very far. There were clues, but it was basically the pets (though they're normal animals) who stopped whodunit with evidence in hand. But most of the details about how the murder was done were never explained, so I'm still curious...

The Christmas activities and love triangle of Holly, Holmes, and his fiancee (who was also a suspect) filled out the story. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this fun mystery.


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