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York Cat Crime Mystery #2
Rear Garden: The Cat Who Knew Too Much
Rear Garden: The Cat Who Knew Too Much is the second novel to feature York's finest feline sleuth, Theodore.
After Theodore moves to the York suburb of Acomb with his owners, Jonathan and Emily, Jonathan breaks his foot and is incapacited for several weeks. With nothing to do but watch Hitchcock films and stare out of the French doors at the houses behind, he soon suspects that there is a murderer at large. Theodore knows that there is a killer in the suburban midst. But how is he to prove it and make sure that the killer gets what's coming to her.
With many references to classic Hitchcock fillms, Rear Garden is a comic romp through the leafy suburbs, leaving many a bloody footprint (and pawprint) on the well-trimmed lawns.
After Theodore moves to the York suburb of Acomb with his owners, Jonathan and Emily, Jonathan breaks his foot and is incapacited for several weeks. With nothing to do but watch Hitchcock films and stare out of the French doors at the houses behind, he soon suspects that there is a murderer at large. Theodore knows that there is a killer in the suburban midst. But how is he to prove it and make sure that the killer gets what's coming to her.
With many references to classic Hitchcock fillms, Rear Garden is a comic romp through the leafy suburbs, leaving many a bloody footprint (and pawprint) on the well-trimmed lawns.
180 pages, Paperback
Published March 5, 2018
About the author
James Barrie
6 books3 followersJames Barrie was born in Beverley, East Yorkshire. He studied at Leeds University before spending five years overseas, teaching English and working as a technical editor. Since 1998 he has lived in York.
In May 2012, he began writing The York Cat Crime Mysteries, a series of three books featuring feline sleuth Theodore. 'The First of Nine: The Case of the Clementhorpe Killer' was published in 2016, the sequel 'Rear Garden, or The Cat Who Knew Too Much' in 2018 and 'The Call of the Cat Basket' in 2019.
In 2022, 'The Naked Orientalist: The Turkish Life of French Sailor and Writer Pierre Loti' was published, a book started in 2001 and completed twenty years later! The novel is based on the author's own time living and working in Istanbul and the adventures that Pierre Loti got up to in Constantinople a hundred years earlier.
He is currently writing a murder mystery set in a bookshop in York.
In May 2012, he began writing The York Cat Crime Mysteries, a series of three books featuring feline sleuth Theodore. 'The First of Nine: The Case of the Clementhorpe Killer' was published in 2016, the sequel 'Rear Garden, or The Cat Who Knew Too Much' in 2018 and 'The Call of the Cat Basket' in 2019.
In 2022, 'The Naked Orientalist: The Turkish Life of French Sailor and Writer Pierre Loti' was published, a book started in 2001 and completed twenty years later! The novel is based on the author's own time living and working in Istanbul and the adventures that Pierre Loti got up to in Constantinople a hundred years earlier.
He is currently writing a murder mystery set in a bookshop in York.
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