{"id":6616,"date":"2025-08-20T06:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:55:18","slug":"cate-conte-claws-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/cate-conte-claws-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Conte: Claws Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cat Caf\u00e9 #9<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Maddie James, cat caf\u00e9 owner and animal enthusiast, \u00a0works closely with family and friends to run her caf\u00e9, find felines new families, and solve mysteries. The solving mysteries part is Maddie\u2019s secondary passion, as her first love will always be helping the poor kitties find their forever homes and making sure they are well cared for in her keeping. Her caf\u00e9, J.J.\u2019s House, is located on Daybreak Island off the New England Coast. J.J. is Maddie\u2019s cat and mascot, as well as a demanding socialite. Maddie has been contemplating expanding her operation beyond the one caf\u00e9 on Daybreak Island, and is presented with a timely and interesting opportunity in the form of a donated food truck.<\/p>\n

Her friend\u2019s donation is touching, and more than a little intimidating, especially so when her friend reveals that they have reserved a spot for her new truck at the Provincetown cat literary festival. It\u2019s the biggest cat adoption event around, and run by famous cat-romance author Jasmine Prescott. Maddie is hoping to connect with Jasmine, and possibly network her caf\u00e9 into Jasmine\u2019s already thriving network of adoption agencies. With her employees and family ready to help her make the event a success, Maddie is feeling excited and confident about the weekend. That is, until another author by the name of Vivi St. Clair shows up. She is a bundle of energy and excitement, and draws everyone to her with her charm. However, this charismatic author has a dark and complicated past that catches up to her in the form of an overly enthusiastic Netflix crew, and even an ex-husband who is all kinds of bad news.<\/p>\n

Maddie tries to stay out of the drama storm that seems to follow Vivi everywhere. However, the author seems genuinely interested in Maddie, and keeps inviting her places and pulling her into her circle – until she\u2019s found murdered one morning. At first Maddie can\u2019t believe anyone would want Vivi dead, but then her cat caf\u00e9 is pulled into the investigation, and she starts to learn that Vivi\u2019s life was filled with a lot more danger than she ever let on. Like mob bosses. Very dangerous mob bosses that have the local police and the FBI in Provincetown on the lookout before Vivi\u2019s murder even occurs. Using everything she\u2019s learned from, and with, her grandfather and his law enforcement history, Maddie is determined to find the true killer and hopefully keep the cat literary festival going.<\/p>\n

Claws Out<\/em> is a fast paced book that quickly immerses readers into Maddie\u2019s life. Seeing how Maddie puts together a mobile cat caf\u00e9 is very interesting, and as always, she puts the cats first, even when that means she or staff must sleep in the truck with them to make sure they remain safe and comfortable. Long time readers will enjoy this newest addition to the series. New readers can enjoy Claws Out<\/em> as Cate Conte effectively introduces characters, history, and setting without overwhelming the reader. However, there are several character relationships that I feel would be more fully appreciated once readers have read a few other books. I suggest Claws Out <\/em>to any cat enthusiast with an interest in seeing how shelters and not-for profits network and connect, and for anyone looking to experience some mob intrigue without the actual gory visuals. Readers won\u2019t be able to put Claws Out<\/em> down until they see who could possibly be the murderer, and of course see how Maddie\u2019s mobile cat caf\u00e9 actually works out.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Carla Schantz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cat Caf\u00e9 #9 Maddie James, cat caf\u00e9 owner and animal enthusiast, \u00a0works closely with family and friends to run her caf\u00e9, find felines new families, and solve mysteries. The solving mysteries part is Maddie\u2019s secondary passion, as her first love will always be helping the poor kitties find their forever homes and making sure they … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1057,949,1812,445,2245,328,2246,393],"class_list":["post-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-carla-schantz","tag-cat-cafe","tag-cate-conte","tag-claws-out","tag-cozy","tag-new-england","tag-st-martins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}