Sofie Ryan’s Cat Got Your Killer is the twelfth book in her Second Chance Cat Mystery series. Perhaps if I’d read more than just a couple in this series, I might be able to remember who all the characters are. There are a number of people who are friends of Sarah Grayson and her cat, Elvis.

Sarah Grayson is the owner of Second Chance, a repurpose store in North Harbor, Maine. It’s the harbor that takes her away one day when she accompanies her boyfriend, Mac, to see the wooden boat he’s building. Once he begins talking with the man who owns the property, Sarah wanders off. She spies Cleveland Guitard down by the water, but when she sees there’s a body, she hurries to meet him. Cleveland and Sarah bring the body to shore, but neither recognize the dead man.

However, other people knew Michael Norris, and none of them can believe he was on the shore at that location. Fifteen years earlier, Michael was part of a quartet of friends in their early twenties. He was present when one of the group died, and another went to prison for her murder. Friends say Michael wouldn’t have returned to the site.

But, for some reason, Michael Norris was there. When Glenn McNamara, the bakery owner, becomes a suspect in Michael’s death, he begs Sarah for help. Sarah has friends who run an investigative firm out of her back room. Mr. P,, a private investigator, works with Rose and Charlotte, in the firm Charlotte’s Angels. Naturally, Sarah is pulled into the latest investigation, one that might be connected to the death fifteen years earlier.

Although there are so many people involved in this case, as investigators, friends and suspects, there’s a valid reason. Sarah doesn’t have actual family in town, but she’s put together a found family made up of three generations, and those people are important to her. In fact, Cat Got Your Killer, is an enjoyable cozy mystery featuring people who care about each other. It’s actually a second chance at family.

Sofie Ryan’s website is https://sofiekelly.com/.

Cat Got Your Killer by Sofie Ryan. Berkley, 2024. ISBN 9780593550267 (paperback), 304p.

FTC Full Disclosure – I received a galley through NetGalley to review for a journal.