Cross My Path
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Publisher Description
An old enemy from the past spells trouble for a young PI and her enigmatic cat in this dystopian noir mystery from the author of The Ninth Life.
Care's reputation as a private investigator is growing, and clients are starting to beat a path to her door. An elderly woman seeks her help in finding out what happened to her missing brother. Blackie senses that he has met this woman before, some time before he became a cat. But who is she—and what is their connection?
At the same time, a dockworker asks Care to find a colleague who has gone missing. But how does a poor laborer have the funds to pay for Care's investigative services?
As Blackie and Care delve further into each case, it becomes clear that neither client has been telling the whole truth. Then a body is discovered at the waterfront, and the investigation takes a disturbing new twist…
"Cat-loving fans of grim postapocalyptic tales will best appreciate Simon's third Blackie and Care mystery."—Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cat-loving fans of grim postapocalyptic tales will best appreciate Simon's third Blackie and Care mystery (after 2017's Dark as My Fur). In a claustrophobic unnamed port city, Care, a pink-haired 15-year-old girl, ekes out a living as a finder of lost people and things. She's assisted, although she's unaware of the help, by Blackie, a cat who serves as narrator and whose consciousness mingles with that of the girl's deceased former mentor. Up the grimy, rickety staircase comes Augusta, a new client. Blackie immediately senses a kindred attachment to this old woman, who wants Care to find her dead brother's watch fob. Augusta is followed by Peter, a dock worker looking for his workmate and cherished friend, Rafe. While creeping through the filthy streets of the ruined city, Care spots AD, a drug dealer and Care's former boss or, as Blackie puts it "the alpha male of a small pack of feral children." The disparate plot lines combine in a fiery finale. That Simon offers no humor, philosophy, or character growth limits the appeal of this dark series.
