No Escape Claws by Sofie Ryan

No Escape Claws by Sofie Ryan ISBN-13: 9781101991244 Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime Released: Jan. 29, 2019

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
It's fall in North Harbor, Maine, where Sarah owns a charming secondhand shop and sells lovingly refurbished items of all kinds. The shop is always bustling--and not just because a quirky team of senior-citizen detectives works out of it and manages to get in even more trouble than Sarah's rough-and-tumble rescue cat, Elvis.

A cold case heats up when young Mallory Pearson appears at the shop. Mallory's father is in prison for negligence after her stepmother's mysterious death, but Mallory believes he is innocent and asks the in-house detectives to take on the case. With Sarah and Elvis lending a paw, the detectives decide to try to give Mallory's father a second chance of his own.


My Review:
No Escape Claws is a cozy mystery. It is the sixth book in the series, but you don't need to read the previous books to understand this one. This book did not spoil any of the previous mysteries.

The main characters were nice, engaging people. They were trying to prove that a person hadn't committed a crime, so they also had to prove who did do it. The amateur detectives asked questions and looked into various alibis. I immediately realized that the judge's identification of the culprit was based mostly on the hat (which is a clue that got them asking the right questions), but it took a very long time for the characters to figure that out. I also correctly realized whodunit a good bit before the main characters. The cat didn't even play much of a role except that of "cute cat."

There were no sex scenes. There was occasional use of bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this enjoyable mystery.


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