Even Cat Sitters get the Blues

by Blaize Clement

This is the third of the Dixie Hemingway books, no relation to the famous author, as the character has to clarify throughout the series. Dixie used to be a cop until her husband and daughter died and now she's a pet-sitter and not quite recovered from the loss of her family. She gets a little bit better throughout each book, in this one she's finally feeling attraction to men again, unfortunately for her there are two of them. True to form for Dixie her work day begins with a corpse, a man working a security gate for an affluent home is dead as she discovers when she tries to enter and feed an iguana. Suprisingly, she runs from the situation instead of reporting it and that leads her to more problems with a police department when her presence is reported by a witness. She doesn't let it lie for long though, pretty soon she's right in the thick of the mystery, caring for a very important iguana and trying to help a very sick man who lives in the home. A few plot points regarding the ailing character in the book made me uncomfortable, but it was still quite enjoyable. I'm glad her character is recovering enough to put herself out there, it puts a little element of romance in the series.