<p>CATS, COTTON, AND&hellip;MURDER&mdash;</p><p>The worlds of <strong>Sarah Booth Delaney&rsquo;s Zinnia, Mississippi </strong>and<strong> Trouble, the black cat detective</strong>, collide in this fast-paced tale of high stakes cotton research, abduction, and murder.</p><p>Trouble, the Sherlockian feline, falls in with Pluto, another cat with a yin for detective work, to find the missing Trudy Wells. But the cats aren&rsquo;t alone. Tabitha Kingsley, posing as a psychic medium, has come to the Mississippi Delta to find her missing sister.</p><p>Standing in Tabitha&rsquo;s way is the cynical&mdash;and compelling&mdash;Roger Long. Roger manages the vast Long Agricultural Products farm and business. Trudy was his <strong>newly hired receptionist&mdash;and possible lover</strong>--<em>before she disappeared.</em></p><p>In a world of wealth and privilege, Tabitha must discover the truth of what her rebellious, sometimes law-breaking, sister was really up to. And she must trust Roger to help her.</p><p><strong>Trouble and Pluto aid the bipeds in finding the answers&mdash;to Trudy&rsquo;s vanishing act and also to the path to trust.</strong></p>