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—BookLoons Reviews
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"This series is great. . . . I hope D. B. Borton never tires of writing about Cat and her friends. I know I won't tire of reading about them."
—Mysterious Woman
TWO-SHOT FOUL
In Two-Shot Foul, Cat’s animal instincts help her to solve a lost kitten caper, but that case leads to a more prominent one. Who murdered local high school basketball hero Julius “Juky” Kay, star forward of the Oscar Robertson Rattle-snakes? Soon, Cat is crutch-deep in corruption, having sustained her first sports injury in the process of investigating Juky’s death.
Me, I want it on the record now that I do not want to die hot and sweaty on a gym floor, surrounded by the smell of gym socks and sneakers.
SIX FEET UNDER
As a child, Rocky Zacharias was a legendary jumprope queen. Now she's an ex-con with children of her own and a dangerous secret that detective Cat Caliban must uncover. Sixth in the original series.
Six little words have the power to strike terror in the heart of a retired cop: "The sleep-over is at your house."
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The Cat Caliban mysteries, currently being republished and continued by Hilliard & Harris, follow the adventures of detective-in-training and real estate entrepreneur Cat Caliban and her assorted assistants—a colorful mix of tenants, neighborhood characters, suburban women of a certain age, Cincinnati street people, and four-pawed companions. When danger threatens, Cat would like to be taken for the Bruce Lee of geriatric gumshoes, but her deadliest weapon is her mouth.
EIGHT MILES HIGH They flew dangerous missions in every aircraft the Army owned, from single-engine trainers to sophisticated bombers, like the Fortress and the Superfortress. Yet their planes were sabotaged. They were savaged in the press and denounced on the floor of Congress. They were awarded no medals and no veterans benefits. Thirty-eight of them died in service to their country. And now, four decades later, someone is killing off the survivors. I was falling backwards. Conclusion? I had a defective parachute —probably one as old as the plane. Any second now, the damp rot that had begun during typhoon season in the Pacific or the small hole gnawed in a rope by some starving French mouse on D-Day would reach its inevitable conclusion, and I’d plunge to my death clutching a broken rope and a scrap of cloth.
ONE FOR THE MONEY The original Cat Caliban. Fifty-nine-year-old widow Cat Caliban, tired of waiting around for the Change of Life, decides to make her own change. She buys an apartment building in what is euphemistically known as a "transitional neighborhood," and begins training for a new career as a detective. She has barely begun her lessons in breaking and entering, however, when she discovers a corpse in the empty apartment upstairs. To track down the killer, she enters the world of Cincinnati's street people and follows a thread that leads back to the golden days of Hollywood's silent era. Suspicion is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids.
Coming (Again) Soon! THREE IS A CROWD During the antiwar movement of the sixties and early seventies, Cat was too distracted by the war on the homefront between her activist daughter and her husband. But doves, like pigeons, come home to roost, and Franny's return home to join the latest antiwar movement involves Cat in the murder of a former peace activist during a demonstration. Will the murderer force Cat underground permanently? |
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SEVENTH DEADLY SIN When the trail of one dead and two missing teenagers leads Cat to an evangelical ministry, Cat finds herself embroiled in the debate over evolution, as she battles the Seventh Deadly Sin. Take it from me, Cat Caliban: if someone who looks and sounds like me, with or without pick-locks, ever shows up in answer to your prayers, you'd better have a serious heart-to-heart with your maker.
"From the debut . . . this gray-haired gumshoe and her extended family of tenants sashay through some very clever and well-developed plots with a wit and a warmth you'll love." —Mystery Lovers Bookshop News |
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"This is a very soft-boiled (one might even say cozy) series, written with humor but still exploring some serious issues, and Cat's relationship with her ultra politically correct daughter, a professional college student, is charming.
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"These are very funny books."
—Deadline
"Caliban is a hot ticket. . . Borton writes like the gritty parts of Dorothy Parker with a light glaze of Betty Friedan over the top. Wonderful stuff."
—The Drood Review of Mystery
