Historical Fiction/Fantasy

Three hours after accepting the mouse’s case, detective cats Briscoe and Boots find themselves standing on the rainy docks, watching their client’s strangled body being pulled from the Thames. In 1895 London, the death of the prominent fashion designer is fodder for drawing room gossip and ammunition for politicians to lobby for police reforms. If high society finds out the mouse may have used sweatshop labor for his garments, and had connections to criminals, the scandal will leave his upper-class widow and her children destitute and in a debtors’ prison. As the sleuths race to catch the killer and protect their client’s family from economic and social ruin, Boots discovers a shocking secret of his own. Now, he must make the ultimate choice: sacrifice his integrity for self-preservation, or lose his friends, job, and his family in the name of justice.

Prologue & Chapter One