An impulsive act sets a cat among the pigeons on a quiet London street…

After a slow year, amateur sleuth Quentin Cadbury and his sidekick, the ever-desirable Wanda Merrydrew, happen upon the lifeless form of a neighbour’s cat.

Having been thrown into responsible adult life with no dress-rehearsal, Quentin is at pains to treat the fallen feline to a dignified send-off.

But when he tries to stop a mugging, and the holdall containing the creature gets swapped with another, he has a problem on his hands.

Instead of a dead cat, he now has a bag of seriously suspicious goods.

Despite warnings from DCI Steve Philmore, and with scarce ability to stay out of trouble, Quentin and Wanda decide to investigate.

Yet, faced with a desperate criminal with nothing to lose, will their detective skills be up to the task?

THE MYSTERY OF THE LUCKY CAT is the second standalone cozy crime caper in this humorous series by Christine McHaines. Look out for the first book, THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN FORTUNE, and the third, THE MYSTERY DOWN UNDER, also FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback.

These books will appeal to fans of Richard Coles, Richard Osman, Fiona Leitch and Katie Gayle.

COLD MOUNTAIN meets ROMEO AND JULIET on the crazy-mean streets of 1972 Cold War Europe.

“A powerful book in which grimness and lyricism fight to a draw.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

When Air Force sergeant Christopher Adams finds himself the lone survivor after his forward observation post is overrun by enemy forces in Vietnam, he realizes he only wants to go somewhere he might quietly and peacefully mend his young, torn body and shattered mind. Instead, the fateful-as-they-are-ironic hands of the military drop him onto the world stage of continents facing off in Cold War. Here, in the heartland of Germany, and a mere twenty-five or so years after Hitler and the Nazis brought those same continents to near ruin, Chris now finds himself surrounded by a world in chaos and flux, protest and terror, and shivering in the imminent shadow of nuclear Armageddon. A world in which there is little quiet, and even less peace.

But then, as journeys of fate and irony are wont to do, he meets her—Nikolina von Lotzenburg, a.k.a. Nikki Lotz, a beautiful, fiercely independent, enormously evasive, seventeen-year-old top photographic model who escaped from East Germany when she was six, and who—now surrounded by those, including her equally fierce mother, Rami, that would try and control every fiber of her high-profile and higher-stakes existence—may be even a more damaged soul than himself…

Her blue eyes were luminous. They saved her life… for a while.

Four people begin a journey. It will lead them to a deadly meeting on a country road beside an Iowa cornfield. Along the way, a mystery unravels through twists and turns that have you wondering who the “good guys and bad guys” are. The final encounter leaves no doubt that things are not always as they appear.

The first book in The Journey Series, An Empty Tree is a hard-boiled, suspenseful thriller that takes the reader on a winding journey and a look into human nature. The ending will leave you wondering about the second book in the series, A Desert View and the others that have followed.

From bestselling author, Glenn Trust (The Hunters Series, Sole Justice Series, Mojave Sun, Dying Embers) An Empty Tree introduces a whole new set of characters and stories sure to keep you turning pages.