Three-Ring Circus

When you thought about it Id pulled off a miracle getting Franny to attend Freds funeral in tears rather than picketing it in Birkies.After decades of marriage motherhood and grandmotherhood Cat Caliban has become Cincinnatis newest oldest funniest detective-in-training.During the sixties Cat was too distracted by the war on the home front between her activist daughter and her husband to pay attention to the antiwar movement. But doves like pigeons come home to roost and Frannys visit to her mother coincides with the murder of a former antiwar activist during a new round of demonstrations. When one of Cats homeless pals becomes the chief suspect Cat investigates. When she discovers secrets from the past someone tries to force her underground permanently.Will Cat become the killers next target? Will the residents of the Catatonia Arms survive Frannys bad guitar-playing and off-key singing?Three-Ring Circus is the third mystery in the Cat Caliban series.