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One is the Deadliest Number (Purrs & Personality Types Mystery #1)
Description:
67-year-old Constance Kincaid and her mischievous rescue cat, Mr. Cinnamon, are the newest residents of Cherry Hill, California, a quaint, relaxing tourism destination hit by hard times. The only business staying afloat is CHATeau Savannah, the cat café whose featured resident is, you guessed it, a wild-looking but super-sweet Savannah (a serval mixed with a domestic).
Eager to carve out a place in the community, Constance teaches a class on her favorite the Nine Personality Types. To engage her bickering students—and keep the class from being canceled—Constance likens them to amateur sleuths, unlocking the secrets of human nature to solve mysteries.
It was only supposed to be a fun thought experiment.
But when the once-beloved Cherry Hill tourism trolley explodes, killing its driver, Constance and her students must put their knowledge to the test and catch a fur-midable foe... Because not only was Constance the last person to ride the trolley before the accident, she may have been the real target!
Reader's Review:
For anyone who likes to read cozy mysteries, “One Is The Deadliest Number: A Purrs and Personality Types Mystery” by Hadley Hartwell is a great choice. I was fortunate to come upon this book at a local community fair where I was able to meet the author. Turns out she’s a great story teller.The story is unique, well laid out, and kept my interest throughout the entire story. Hartwell’s use of multiple character POV in telling the story brings the reader deeper into the minds of the characters of this small, quirky town near Palm Springs. Her use of the Enneagrams (a system of identifying and classifying personality types into 9 unique types) added an interesting twist to the method of solving the murder of the town’s trolley driver. In the end, while there was a town’s worth of suspects, it took an outsider to bring the killer into focus. If you like Agatha Christie or “Murder She Wrote”, you’ll like this book.