Guest Sleuth Spotlight: L.B. Dayton
Series: A Kat Calloway Cozy Mystery—the newest in the series (7 books)
The Book:
Chef Kat Calloway should be having the night of her life. Her catering business is finally taking off, her friends have pulled off the surprise birthday party of a lifetime, and then the door opens on the best gift of all: her best friend Doll, home from Paris with a pastry box in her hands and a one-way ticket in her pocket. For one perfect evening, everything is exactly as it should be.
Then Doll spots a familiar face outside Kat's house. Days later, the same man turns up at Kat's first high-profile catering event, and Doll finally tells the truth: she left Paris to escape Luca Ferrante, a man who spent months stalking her and refusing to take no for an answer—and he has followed her to Dallas.
What Kat uncovers is worse than a stalker. It's a pattern: a missing woman who looks unsettlingly like Doll, two dead wives, and a predator convinced that what he wants belongs to him. With Ben, Bash, Gramartha, Javi, and one very opinionated tuxedo cat at her side, Kat races to put the pieces together before the danger closes in—because this time the mystery isn't threatening her future. It's hunting someone she loves.
Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (69 ratings)
Rating: 4.6 on Goodreads (54 ratings)
“A best friend home from Paris, the reason she left close behind her, and a kitchen full of people who close ranks the moment one of their own is in danger. If you like a cozy with a little more pulse—and a tuxedo cat with opinions about everyone who walks in—Kat Calloway’s seventh is the one where it gets personal.”
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