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Tides & Treachery: A Purring Cup Cat Café Mystery
Paperback
Series: The Purring Cup Mysteries, Book 2
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ISBN13: 9798257810930
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A woman walks into the cat café with a message from the dead. Harbor festival week is supposed to mean extra cold brew, too much bunting, and more tourists than Tessa Crane can reasonably be expected to enjoy. Instead, it begins with a stranger at the window table, a cup of mint tea, and a message that changes everything: I knew Margaret. I may know where she is. For three years, Tessa has lived above The Purring Cup, caring for its cats, its customers, and the quiet legacy of the woman who ran the café before vanishing without a trace. Margaret Finch was supposed to be part of the town's past. Then a marine photographer arrives with the festival boats.
Then he turns up dead in the harbor.
And suddenly the question is no longer whether Margaret is alive.
It's who has been looking for her-and who was willing to kill before she could be found. As Tessa follows a trail through dock records, hidden investigations, festival boats, old property documents, and the town's careful silences, she uncovers a dangerous truth: this was never just about one missing woman. It was about what Margaret left behind, who still fears it, and how many versions of the story have been arranged to keep the real one buried. With Detective Oakes asking careful questions, Sam noticing what other people miss, and Oliver the café cat holding his usual post at the counter as if he knows exactly where the truth has been waiting, Tessa will have to decide what this building means to her-and what she is willing to protect when the past finally comes back through the door. Tides & Treachery is a smart, atmospheric cozy mystery for readers who love seaside towns, cat cafés, quiet heroines, layered local history, and mysteries where the smallest detail at the wrong table can change everything. Come for the harbor festival. Stay for the cats, the secrets, and the question that refuses to stay buried.
And suddenly the question is no longer whether Margaret is alive.
It's who has been looking for her-and who was willing to kill before she could be found. As Tessa follows a trail through dock records, hidden investigations, festival boats, old property documents, and the town's careful silences, she uncovers a dangerous truth: this was never just about one missing woman. It was about what Margaret left behind, who still fears it, and how many versions of the story have been arranged to keep the real one buried. With Detective Oakes asking careful questions, Sam noticing what other people miss, and Oliver the café cat holding his usual post at the counter as if he knows exactly where the truth has been waiting, Tessa will have to decide what this building means to her-and what she is willing to protect when the past finally comes back through the door. Tides & Treachery is a smart, atmospheric cozy mystery for readers who love seaside towns, cat cafés, quiet heroines, layered local history, and mysteries where the smallest detail at the wrong table can change everything. Come for the harbor festival. Stay for the cats, the secrets, and the question that refuses to stay buried.
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