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Title: Not as good as the usual Van Gieson
Review: Protagonist Neil Hamel blames her troubles on a gray stray cat (who, sadly, gets trapped and hauled to the pound). The real culprit is a dull plot, boring characters, and flat dialog. Normally I look forward to the next Neil Hamel, but in this case better to have kept the cat and hauled this book to the dump.
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