What can go wrong when an elderly matriarch leaves the family fortune to her cat? Just about everything, including ‘catnapping’ and murder!
‘Finally, what you'll all have gathered to hear, I give, devise, bequeath and appoint my entire estate, including all financial assets, properties and personal possessions to my only true friend and companion, my cat, Marmalade.’
With those words, Amanda Dunbar sets in motion a series of events that will lead her family and Christopher Mallory, the young attorney who finds himself trustee to the cat, into mischief, misadventure and murder!
CATNIP is a mystery set in the picturesque town of Dunbarton, Ontario and tells the story of what befalls the dysfunctional Dunbar family, and the chaos that ensues, when the matriarch of the clan leaves the family fortune to her cat. That formidable feline proves to be more than a match for the humans in his life until one fateful night when, caught unawares, he is stuffed in a sack and carried away. A nosy neighbour with a nasty, suspicious mind points the finger of suspicion at Christopher and the Dunbars and, under the terms of the will, they face losing everything. When a murder occurs Christopher finds himself confronting a ruthless killer who would do anything, including kill again, to conceal his/her identity.