What the Cat Dragged In
Bayview Veterinary Clinic, Caldmere
Someone has helped themselves to Rosario Vega's grooming kit — a professional-grade set worth nearly four hundred dollars — while she was inside Bayview Vet dropping off a post-groom patient. The kit walked right out of her unlocked van, and she wants answers.
Everyone has something to hide.
24. Finishing biology at Bellwick. Competent, direct, world-weary. First-generation college student working three jobs. Manages the clinic's drug inventory more carefully than Sam does — and has noticed discrepancies.
A French-Canadian transplant who came to Caldmere for the seafood. An extraordinary chef, a terrible businessman. His food is transcendent. His management style is volcanic.
Tends a remarkable garden on the island. Supplies herbs to Wren & Finch and makes tinctures half of Caldmere swears by. Has a knowledge of plant toxicology she frames as 'folk medicine.'
Can you name the culprit?
Read the case file, interrogate the suspects, and make your accusation — five guesses to crack it. The deduction board and the solution are for detectives only.
Caldmere, Maine.
A small town on the Maine coast where everyone knows everyone, and nothing is quite what it seems. Explore the locations and characters behind every case.