Purrfect Bang

I was hoping for a quiet day. A little sunshine. A long nap. Maybe a snack or six.

Instead, Dooley witnesses a young woman being snatched off a bench and dragged into a waiting van.

The victim is Heike Twinkle, heiress to the Twinkle Frog fortune-and her disappearance couldn't have come at a worse time. After years away from store shelves, Hampton Cove's most beloved chocolate treat is about to make a spectacular comeback.

Unfortunately, not everyone is celebrating.

Eleven former employees of the old Twinkle Frog factory have died under mysterious circumstances, and the survivors believe the company may have been hiding a deadly secret. When Odelia agrees to investigate, she finds herself caught between a wealthy family determined to protect its name, frightened workers desperate for answers, and a kidnapper with some very unusual demands.

Meanwhile, Marge has given us cats a secret assignment of our own: keep an eye on the neighbors' daughter, Aurora, whose new career as a heavy-metal singer comes complete with tattoos, a terrifying boyfriend, and an alarming tendency to threaten innocent cats.

Now we've got a missing heiress, possibly poisonous chocolate, a furious metalhead, a former British prime minister wandering around town, and Gran behind the wheel of a vehicle she definitely wasn't authorized to borrow.

And somewhere in the middle of it all is a mystery that's about to go off with a very big bang.

A cozy mystery packed with humor, chocolate, kidnappings, family feuds, dangerous secrets, and one explosively misguided rescue mission. Join Max and the gang as they uncover the truth behind Hampton Cove's sweetest-and possibly deadliest-legend.

From the long-running Mysteries of Max series.

Each book contains a complete standalone mystery.