The Cat Sitter's Cradle

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE CAT SITTER’S CRADLE. Copyright © 2013 by Blaize and John Clement. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

Cover illustration © Betty Krichman represented by Adrian Chesterman

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Clement, Blaize.

The cat sitter’s cradle: a Dixie Hemingway mystery / Blaize & John Clement. — First edition.

pages cm

“A Thomas Dunne book.”

ISBN 978-1-250-00932-6 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-03028-3 (e-book)

1. Hemingway, Dixie (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women detectives—Florida—Fiction. 3. Ex-police officers—Fiction. 4. Missing persons—Fiction. 5. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Clement, John. II. Title.

PS3603.L463C38 2013

813'.6—dc23

2013009818

e-ISBN 9781250030283

First Edition: July 2013