Swimming Cat Cove
By Lauren Wright Douglas – An Allison O’Neil Mystery
In the peaceful Oregon town of Lavner Bay, displaced Californian Allison O’Neill is busily working through a long list of things she needs to do to make her newly inherited bed and breakfast profitable.
Things are going smoothly until the daughter of the B&B’s live in handywoman brings home a bedraggled 9 year old named Minou. The child’s mother is in jail for shop-lifting, and the last time Minou saw her drunken father he had just lost everything he had – including her – in a winner-take-all card game with some LA pornographers.
That’s when Minou started running for her life. The girls bed Allison to let Minou stay a week – just until her mom is released from jail – and Alison reluctantly agrees. Minou is a model houseguest, but before the week is up, Allison O’Neil is going to have a couple of unexpected things on her to-do list: find the girls and stay alive!