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Butterfly Betrayal: A Seneca James Mystery
by Ruth J Hartman
Butterfly Betrayal: A Seneca James Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Rural Indiana
Level Best Books (November 21, 2023)
Print length : 289 Pages
Digital ASIN : B0CKJ16LXB
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Raising butterflies is peaceful and calm, until someone dies.
Majestic Monarch Butterfly Farm might flitter away forever. That is, unless Seneca James acquires the property next door. She and Winifred, her costume-wearing cat, have a fight on their hands. Their land sits next to a milkweed-covered field, essential for monarchs. If she’s unsuccessful in buying it, her precious, winged friends won’t survive. When people end up dead on her farmland, Seneca is suspected of murder.
What is it about the milkweed field that’s worth killing for? And who’s the murderer?
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Enjoy this peek inside:
Needing to get back to the caterpillars, I headed to the greenhouse. Winifred was already there. She’d done that several times lately. I’m not sure how she was getting inside since I always shut the door.
She greeted me with a shrill, scolding meow, like I’d stuck her in there and gone off and left her, even though I’d cuddled her only a little while earlier. Picking her up, I held her, so we were eye to eye. “Listen, kitty, I don’t know how you’re getting in here, but it needs to stop. It’s not that I’m trying to be mean, but it’s my job to protect you. Certain things in here are not for you to play with. Or sleep on. Or eat.”
My cat thrashed her tail back and forth like a broom, until it brushed against my hand. Did she think it would injure me? I wouldn’t tell her that her fluffy tail was as soft as feathers that tickled so bad, I nearly dropped her.
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About Ruth J. Hartman
Ruth J. Hartman spends her days herding cats and her nights spinning mysterious tales. She, her husband, and their cats love to spend time curled up in their recliners watching old Cary Grant movies. Well, the cats sit in the people’s recliners. Not that the cats couldn’t get their own furniture. They just choose to shed on someone else’s.
Ruth, a left-handed, cat-herding, farmhouse-dwelling writer uses her sense of humor as she writes tales of lovable, klutzy women who seem to find trouble without even trying.
Ruth’s husband and best friend, Garry, reads her manuscripts, rolls his eyes at her weird story ideas, and loves her despite her insistence all of her books have at least one cat in them. See updates about her cozy mysteries at Ruthjhartman.com.
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Purchase Link – Amazon
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