Mimi Lee Reads Between the Lines
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When a local teacher is found dead, LA’s newest pet groomer Mimi Lee finds herself in a pawful predicament—with her younger sister’s livelihood on the line.
Mimi Lee is on top of the world. She has a thriving pet grooming business, the sweetest boyfriend, and a talking cat to boot. When she arrives at the elementary school where her sister Alice works, she's expecting a fun girls' night out—but instead finds a teacher slumped over in her car, dead.
Alice was the last one to see Helen Reed, which instantly marks her as the prime suspect. Unable to sit quietly and let the authorities walk all over her sister, Mimi starts snooping and talks to Helen’s closest contacts, including one jumpy principal, a two-faced fiancé, and three sketchy teachers. With the help of her sassy but savvy cat, Marshmallow, and a cute kitten named Nimbus, the clock’s ticking for Mimi to get to the bottom of yet another case before her sister gets schooled.
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Chow's sprightly sequel to Mimi Lee Gets a Clue involves Mimi Lee, who owns an L.A. pet grooming salon, and Marshmallow, Mimi's telepathic cat, who can communicate with people and other animals, in an investigation at Mimi's sister Alice's school, where one of Alice's fellow teachers, Helen Reed, turns up dead in her car. Though there's no sign of foul play, the lack of an obvious cause of death leads both the police and Mimi to look into whether Helen was murdered. Mimi gets more feline help after she rescues a kitten from under Helen's car. The kitten, whom she names Nimbus, has an unusual chip under her skin, and Marshmallow reveals that he and Nimbus were kept by the same man, who'd implanted a device in each cat to enhance their "mental capabilities." Nimbus is able to share the fact that a man, possibly her former master, was at the school on the day of Helen's death. Mimi's appealing narrative voice keeps the action moving, despite a distracting subplot involving strains in her parents' marriage. This is catnip for fans of talking cat cozies.
