Blaize Clement

While going to the home of a vacationing client in Sarasota, Florida, professional pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway, a former sheriff's deputy, stumbles upon a traumatized cat and the corpse of a mysterious intruder, sending Dixie on a search for her missing client--and a killer. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

The First Dixie Hemingway Mystery

Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter

Author Blaize Clement has earned herself a legion of fans with the first five books in her pet-sitting mystery series. Now Blaize's beloved heroine, Dixie Hemingway, is back, and when Dixie's latest assignment turns dangerous, it's up to her to save the day. Dixie, no relation to you-know-who, is helping an injured and cantankerous man take care of Cheddar, his orange shorthair cat. Soon Dixie finds herself totally smitten with the man's adorable infant great-granddaughter. But the baby's naive young mother has enough knowledge about certain powerful local big-mney honchos to send them to prison for life, and they are willing to do anything, even kill her baby, to shut her up. Caught in the turmoil caused by the grandfather's prickly pride, the granddaughter's misguided plans to regain her young husband's respect by telling the truth in court, and the ruthless determination of wealthy villains to preserve their ill-gotten millions, Dixie is the only person who can rescue the baby. And she has to do it without letting law-enforcement people know -- not even Lieutenant Guidry, with whom she has a new romantic relationship. Does Dixie have her claws sunk too deep to make it out of this one? Find out in book six of Blaize Clement's splendid series.

A Dixie Hemingway Mystery

Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons

Florida pet sitter Dixie Hemingway's new friend, the beautiful Laura Halston, claims to be in hiding from an abusive husband, but when Laura receives threats, Dixie realizes that there may be unexpected--and deadly--implications to Laura's story.

Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof

John Clement

"This time out, Dixie's got a furry partner-in-crime, an irascible Lhasa Apso named Charlie. They've just arrived at the home of one of Dixie's regular clients to check in on Franklin, a mackerel tabby with avocado-green eyes and a luxuriant coat the color of dried beach grass. Despite a couple of bumps in the road (Franklin seems to be hiding in one of his favorite cubby holes, and Charlie scratches up the parlor door trying to get to the other side), everything else is perfectly normal. That is, until the next day, when Dixie discovers a dead body on the other side of that parlor door, along with a note that seems to suggest she had something to do with it. Soon, there's another victim, and then another note, and Dixie quickly finds herself caught in a maze of mystery and danger, where all the clues have her name written all over them, and where she must find the murderer. . . before he finds her"--

The Cat Sitter and the Canary

Rendered unconscious by a housebreaker while caring for a mischievous Maine coon cat, Florida cat sitter Dixie Hemingway is baffled to discover that none of the house's considerable valuables have been stolen, in a case that ensnares her in the world of black-market antiques. By the author of The Cat Sitter's Cradle.

The Cat Sitter's Whiskers

Witnessing an explosive collision while driving through her hometown, Dixie rescues one of the drivers, who bafflingly claims the next day that he is her husband at the same time a befuddled bookstore owner and his fluffy orange cat go missing. 30,000 first printing.

A Mystery

The Cat Sitter's Nine Lives

Spotting an exotic bird far from its indigenous habitat, pet sitter Dixie Hemingway uncovers sinister forces behind the bird's displacement before a client is murdered and a new friend goes missing with her baby. 30,000 first printing.

The Cat Sitter's Cradle

Hired by a famous football player to pet-sit his cats, Dixie meets a celebrity fashion model who claims to be the athlete's wife, a situation that culminates in Dixie's discovery of a ring of high-fashion counterfeiters. By the author of Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs.

The Cat Sitter's Pajamas

“A knockout read. For anyone who loves mysteries, animals, or just plain great writing, this is a book to savor.”—Laurien Berenson, author of Doggie Day Care Murder on Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter In this fifth installment of the wildly popular Dixie Hemingway mystery series, a mysterious young girl is missing. Lieutenant Guidry, the hunky homicide detective with whom Dixie has an on-again, off-again relationship, is trying to find the girl because she may be a material witness to a murder. Finally Dixie must go it alone to confront criminals who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs

Tired of becoming involved in homicide investigations, Florida pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway does not report stumbling upon the corpse of a mansion gate-keeper, a resolve that is complicated when someone reports her presence at the scene of the crime and by her new client, an eccentric scientist, and his pet iguana. 25,000 first printing.

Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues

Waving to the driver of a car that speeds by during her morning run with her dachshund Mame, Dixie Hemingway suddenly realizes that she accidentally waved to a killer when she and Mame stumble upon a corpse and that the killer may believe that she can identify him or her. By the author of Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter. 20,000 first printing.

The Second Dixie Hemingway Mystery

Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund

Dixie Hemingway was a County deputy when a tragic accident happened and now she is a pet-sitter. But when she finds a man drowned in a cat's water bowl, she is drawn into a tangled web of danger and secrets.

Plucky heroine Dixie Hemingway is back in this ninth installment of Blaize Clement's beloved cozy mystery series. While driving along the beachside road that runs through the center of her hometown Dixie witnesses a terrible head-on collision. Ever the hero, she springs into action and pulls one of the drivers from his car just before it explodes in flames. A little shaken but none the worse for wear, Dixie proceeds to her local bookstore where she meets Cosmo, a fluffy, orange tomcat, and Mr. Hoskins, the store's kind but strangely befuddled owner. The next day the driver whose life she saved claims that he is Dixie's husband. Meanwhile, both Cosmo and Mr. Hoskins have disappeared without a trace, and a mysterious phone call from a new client lures her to a crumbling, abandoned mansion on the outskirts of town. Soon Dixie finds herself locked in a riddle of deception, revenge, murder, and mystery. The Cat Sitter's Nine Lives features a compelling main character and a riveting plot that is bound to satisfy the appetites of Dixie Hemingway fans and newcomers to the series.

Until three years ago, Dixie Hemingway was a deputy with the Sarasota County Sherriff's Department in southwest Florida. Then came a tragic accident. Now Dixie's a pet-sitter on Siesta Key, a lush, exotic barrier island where the people tend to be rich, suntanned, and tolerant of one another's quirks. As Dixie tried to get her life back in order, pet-sitting is the perfect job. She goes into people's homes while they're gone and takes care of their pets; she likes the animals, they like her, and she doesn't have to deal with people very much. She especially does not have to be afraid that she'll run into a situation that will cause her to lose her hard-won composure. But when Dixie finds a man bizarrely drowned in a cat's water bowl, she is drawn into a tangled web of danger and secrets. Unbeknownst to Lieutenant Guidry, the homicide detective handling the murder, Dixie begins her own investigation into the whereabouts of the cat's owner, who has now vanished. Fans of The Cat Who... book series by Lilian Jackson Braun will adore this riveting new pet-oriented sleuth and will eagerly await Dixie's next case: Will duplicity dog the dachshund?

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