Feline Fatale (A Kendra Ballantine, Pet-Sitte) [Paperback]

Linda O. Johnston (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Kendra Ballantine, Pet-Sitte | Publication Date: July 6, 2010

While visiting her friend Wanda, Kendra Ballantyne sets off a squabble over the building's animal policy. One week later, an anti-pet board member is found dead in Wanda's apartment. Now, Kendra must start sniffing around for the real killer.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (July 6, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425235548
• ISBN-13: 978-0425235546
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Linda O. Johnston's first published fiction appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Mystery Short Story of the year. Since then, Linda has published more short stories, plus seventeen romance novels, including the Alpha Force paranormal miniseries for Harlequin Nocturne. Alpha Force is a covert military unit of shapeshifters, and the most recent book in the series is ALASKAN WOLF.

Linda is also the author of the new Pet Rescue Mystery series from Berkley Prime Crime which debuted in March 2011 with BEAGLEMANIA. The series centers around Lauren Vancouver, the dedicated administrator of a successful private, no-kill animal shelter who also finds herself having to solve murders. In the Pet Rescue Mysteries, "no-kill" means pets, not people! The Pet Rescue series is a spinoff from Linda's Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter, mystery series, also from Berkley Prime Crime.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Once again Linda O. Johnston has written a creative crazy complex and charmingly delightful cozy/amateur sleuth mystery, July 18, 2010

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feline Fatale (A Kendra Ballantine, Pet-Sitte) (Paperback)

Kendra Ballantyne works as an attorney for a small laid-back law firm dealing mostly with the elderly and those who have pet problems. She is dating wealthy Dante, owner of the Hot Pets supply chain. Currently she is pet-sitting at the Brigadoon Complex so her friends Wanda and Darryl can go on vacation.

Kendra gets into a fracas with Margaret Shafter who doesn't like strangers on her complex and opposes pets inside as that brings in outside riffraff. Teddy and Ruth Bertinetti support Margaret. Wanda returns Kendra's call and informs the lawyer that Brigadoon is divided over the pet issue with several making nasty dangerous threats. The next time Wanda contacts Kendra is when she is a murder suspect. One of the cats, Lady Cuddles, escaped entering Margaret's apartment. Wanda followed the frisky feline inside the apartment where Margaret was apparently murdered. Kendra promises to find the killer, but instead realizes a horde of people had viable motives. Kendra turns to a risky extraordinary method to flush out the culprit.

Once again Linda O. Johnston has written a creative crazy complex and charmingly delightful cozy as Feline fatale is one of the better amateur sleuths in the Pet-Sitter mystery series (see Howl Deadly). Kendra is a caring courageous person who goes the extra kilometer for her friends and loves Dante despite his excesses. Fans of the saga will appreciate the heroine as she tries to identify the murderer to insure Wanda is no longer a suspect.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Series Getting a Little Tired, October 2, 2010

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Chris (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feline Fatale (A Kendra Ballantine, Pet-Sitte) (Paperback)

This used to be a favorite series of mine, but it is starting to get a little weary. The same phrases are used over and over, like murder magnet, to the point it gets distracting. Unless the author has a trick up her sleeve, I will probably be passing on further installments.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good read, August 17, 2010

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This review is from: Feline Fatale (A Kendra Ballantine, Pet-Sitte) (Paperback)

When her friend becomes the primary suspect in said pet-hater's death, Kendra doggedly jump into finding the killer, while trying to stay out of harm's way. This was an quick read and light fare that satisfied my reading pleasure