Librarian Kathleen Paulson and her inquisitive catsfind themselvesin a jam when a musician turns up dead, in the newest installment of thisNew York Timesbestselling series.

Its summerin Mayville Heights, and Kathleen Paulson and her detective boyfriend Marcus, are eager to attend the closing concert of the local music festival. The concert is a success, but then one of the band members is discovered dead shortlyafter it.At first itsassumed the death is a robbery gone wrong,butKathleensuspects foul playand shescertain that she, along with her trusty side-cats, Owen and Hercules, can help solve the murder.

Before his death,Kathleen had noticed the victim in the library researching his genealogy, and when she andMarcus take a closer look at the man’sfamily tree,they begin to think a previous death of one of his relatives now seems suspicious.The more Kathleen thinks about it, the more this murder feels like it could be an encore performance. Kathleen and her cats will need toactfast and be very careful if they want to stay off of a killer’s hit list.