Three Is a Crowd - Cat Caliban, Bk 3 Author:D. B. Borton Cat Caliban, mother of three and Cincinnati's finest amateur sleuth, goes into action when an old friend, Steel, a Vietnam veteran, is accused of the murder of a former peace activist.
Suspicion 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...
Third in the series, someone kills an anti-war activist from the '60's at an anti-war rally in present day, and a friend of Cat's is mistakenly(?) hounded by the police. Quite funny, light hearted, yet pulls at the heart strings.
From the back cover: "All Cat wants to do is get her youngest daughter through school. But now she's thinking about somebody else's college career: the former student activist who was just brutally murdered...at a peace rally! Desparate for a suspect, the cops want to send Cat's friend to jail for the crime...."