One for the Money - Cat Caliban, Bk 1 Author:D. B. Borton A NEW CAREER ... IN CRIMESOLVING — Life changed for Catherine "Cat" Cali ban after thirty-eight years of marriage. She lost a husband, bought an apartment house, got a gun -- and decided to become a I? I. And that was before she discovered that her upstairs apartment came furnished ... with a corpse. — CAT CALIBAN INVESTIGATES — Suspicion... more » is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids. So Cat Caliban figures she has what it takes to be Cincinnati's smartest snoop: an eye for evidence, a talent for spotting lies, the sharp wit of Erma Bombeck -- and the detection skills of Sam Spade...« less
The first Cat Calliban mystery; she's a hoot and moving fast to age 60! Only her lanhuage bothers a little, but she has a very good reason why she nhas such a mouth! M'ann
After thirty-eight years of marriage, Cat Caliban is intent on starting a new life. She begins by buying her own apartment building, the Patagonia Arms, and working towards her PI license. Little does she know she'll be using her investigative skills sooner than she thinks. While showing one of her apartments to a prospective tenant, Cat finds a dead body. Apparently the vacancy listing wasn't entirely accurate.
Cat and her tenants go after the killer in the first of a series of adventures by DB Borton featuring Cat Caliban, a feisty grandmother with an edge.