Silver Circle Cat Rescue Mystery

Eleanor "Ellie" Rockwell thought her days of excitement were over. After being laid off from her corporate job at forty-nine, she moved to the small town of Tablerock, Texas, opened the Silver Circle Cat Rescue, and settled into a quiet life with her daughter, Evie. Little did she know, her life was about to get a whole lot more...furry. When a magical crystal platter that allows cats to communicate with humans falls into her possession, Ellie finds herself thrown into a world of murder mysteries and feline sleuthing.

When 49-year-old Eleanor Rockwell was laid off from her soul-crushing corporate job, she moved a few miles north of Austin with her daughter, Evie, and opened Silver Circle Cat Rescue in the small town of Tablerock, Texas.

In the small town of Tablerock, Texas, life is as sweet as honey. Fifty-year-old Ellie Rockwell's Silver Circle Cat Rescue is settling in to the shelter's inherited mansion on the edge of town, and only a few people know about the magical platter that came with it—the one that allows cats to speak to humans.

A cat with a gold chip on his shoulder. A coin collector dead in the night. A mystery the killer wants buried. Now that Silver Circle Rescue is settled into Wardwell Manor, Ellie Rockwell and her daughter Evie are using the magical silver platter to help dozens of cats find perfect forever homes—one conversation at a time. The peace shatters when a mysterious woman abandons coin collector Harold Goldfinch's cat, Nugget, on the shelter's doorstep. The anxious calico insists the police have got it all wrong—Harold didn't die naturally. He was murdered.

Eleanor "Ellie" Rockwell thought her days of excitement were over. After being laid off from her corporate job at forty-nine, she moved to the small town of Tablerock, Texas, opened the Silver Circle Cat Rescue, and settled into a quiet life with her daughter, Evie. Little did she know, her life was about to get a whole lot more...furry. When a magical crystal platter that allows cats to communicate with humans falls into her possession, Ellie finds herself thrown into a world of murder mysteries and feline sleuthing.

A marmalade cat with a story to tell. A librarian felled by a fruitcake. A Christmas mystery as twisted as any fairy tale. It's Christmas in Tablerock, Texas, and cat-rescuing mother-daughter duo Ellie and Evie Rockwell just want to find their feline residents forever homes for the holidays. Instead, they find themselves tangled in a real-life Christmas mystery straight out of a storybook. When the town's beloved librarian Alice Grey is found bludgeoned to death by a fruitcake at the start of the holiday season, the community's tranquility shatters.

Tablerock, Texas is not a town accustomed to blizzards. But as a once-in-a-lifetime freeze buries the town under piles of snow and ice, life grinds to a frosty halt. For Ellie and Evie Rockwell it means being snowed in at the Silver Circle Cat Rescue with their circle of friends—all of whom are feeling the chill in more ways than one. In an attempt to defrost the increasing tension among the group, they share stories of their past—including the unsolved murder of a local woman that has left a frosty shadow over Tablerock for years.

As the small town of Tablerock, Texas prepares for its annual Cinco de Mayo festival, Ellie and Evie Rockwell were counting on a day filled with tacos, perhaps a pinata or two, and a fiesta of feline fun at Silver Circle Cat Rescue. Instead, they’re served a stiff dose of reality when the town’s eccentric tarot card reader Luna Espinoza is found face-down in her award-winning margarita mix. What’s more, Silver Circle’s newest feline resident, the reader’s mysterious Mexican hairless cat named Mystico, has some chilling messages from Luna in the great beyond.

When a bedraggled Scottish Fold kitten named Fluffy is brought to Silver Circle Cat Rescue clinging to a single black flip flop, Ellie and Evie Rockwell sense there's more to the story than a typical stray. Their suspicion is confirmed when the nervous kitten begs them to find his owner—a woman named Lisa who, according to Fluffy, vanished during a swim at the lake. Digging into Fluffy's previous life, Ellie discovers that Lisa, while well-liked around town, was hiding dark secrets beneath her sunny exterior—secrets that may have led to her untimely end in the lake's placid waters.

When distressed tabby Sunbeam arrives at Silver Circle Cat Rescue, Ellie and Evie Rockwell are immediately drawn to his sunny disposition and charming purr. But beneath his cheerful exterior, Sunbeam is heartbroken—his owner Marigold Taylor was mysteriously murdered at her beloved sunflower farm in the Texas Hill Country.

Christmas in Tablerock, Texas is usually a time of joy and goodwill—but this year, a string of burglaries has the town on edge. When a sneaky snowshoe cat named Blitzen seeks refuge at Silver Circle Cat Rescue, Ellie and Evie Rockwell suspect the cat is no victim. In fact, Blitzen may hold the key to solving the crimes.

Fresh off her engagement and still basking in the glow of new love, Ellie Rockwell should be focused on wedding plans. Instead, she and Evie find themselves knee-deep in adorable kittens as Silver Circle tackles kitten season. But wedding catalogs and bottle-feeding schedules take a back seat when local artisan Penelope Periwinkle is discovered murdered among her handcrafted wares at the town's annual Crafts and Creations Festival.