Sarah Grayson is all about second chances. So much so that it’s the name of her shop, where she restores and sells objects that others no longer want or need. From furniture to encyclopedias, glass bottles to musical instruments, Sarah and her crew take discarded pieces and turn them into gems. She and her rescue cat Elvis run the store, try to keep her grandmother and friends from interfering in her love life, and help Charlotte’s Angels solve mysteries.
So when Sarah and her friends go to a reception for North Harbor, Maine’s waterfront restoration, and a property developer ends up dead, Charlotte’s Angels go to work. A group of crime-fighting senior citizens, the Angels work this time for one of their own, Rose’s boyfriend Mr. P., resident computer expert and old friend of the victim’s stepfather. Mr. P. wants to know why his friend’s son was killed and who would do that to him. So the Angels snap to work, and Rose delegates jobs to everyone nearby.
Sarah was there when the developer, Christopher Healey, collapsed at the reception—in fact, she tried to give him CPR—so she wants to find out who killed him too. Where she generally resists the investigations, Sarah is quick to join in with this one and is more than happy to help out where she can. Meanwhile, she keeps busy playing along with her brother’s fake relationship, catering to Elvis’s Jeopardy! habit, helping with a fundraiser for the town, and flirting with her number two in the store, Mac.
But as the investigation goes on, and the suspect list swindles down, Sarah becomes convinced that the killer is someone close to them, that someone will be heartbroken when the truth comes out and the killer is revealed. But Sarah knows that the truth is more important, so she keeps moving forward on the investigation, despite heartache and danger.
Claw Enforcement is book 7 in Sofie Ryan’s Second Chance Cat Mystery Series, but it’s the first one in the series I have read. I’d read one of the Magical Cats Mysteries (written under the name Sofie Kelly), and I liked it, but I enjoyed this one even more. I thought the characters were charming, and Elvis is an especially good addition. I thought that the crime and investigation in Claw Enforcement was fairly mild, making it an excellent series for readers who are sensitive to more graphic mysteries. Basically, I really loved it and need to carve out some time to read more books in this series. I strongly recommend the Second Chance Cat Mysteries.
Egalleys for Claw Enforcement were provided by Berkley through Edelweiss, with many thanks.
