Gray as Ashes

<p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'><strong>Martinsville</strong> <strong>Georgia has always been a sleepy little town where nothing much ever happens except a few murders... </strong></p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'>There's a firebug in Martinsville. Town librarian Biscuit McKee isn't too worried when a garbage bin at the grocery store is set on fire. But when it's her beloved garden shed that goes up in flames the fur begins to fly.</p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'>Biscuit's feline companion Marmalade comments frequently ...</p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'><em>Yes I do. </em></p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'>... (even though her humans think she's only purring ...</p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'><em>Mouse droppings! </em></p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'>... or sneezing). She's as baffled by all this as her humans.</p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'><em>We could have some tuna. That would solve a lot. </em></p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'>Distracted by a visit from Peachie an old college friend Biscuit pays only scant attention to a third fire but it's hard to ignore the dead body found in the charred remains of Connie Cartwright's studio where glass-blowing may have turned into homicide.</p><p style='margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; caret-color: rgb(0 0 0); color: rgb(0 0 0);'><br></p>