D.B. Borton

• Nov-2025
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A cold case from the Swinging Sixties. A sassy senior sleuth. If Cat Caliban's not your favorite crime-solving grandma, you just haven't met her yet.Meet Cat Caliban: former housewife, widow, cat lady - and private eye in training. Who said fifty-som...

• Oct-2024
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A writers' group hires Cat Caliban to investigate the hit-and-run death of their most successful - and least popular - member. A young novelist and college professor, Billie Ransom has recently won the coveted contract to write the sequel to acclaime...

• Sep-2022
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In the ninth book of The Cat Caliban Mysteries, detective-in-training Cat Caliban rushes into a burning house to save a litter of kittens and escapes with an armful of squirming fur and a charred skull. The experts say it's murder, but who was the vi...

• May-2019
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It's hard to be hard-boiled when your biggest fan and toughest critic is your twelve-year-old daughter.Comedy meets mystery and history in the summer of 1961, when Houston is still a cowboy backwater - overheated, under-air conditioned, and plagued b...

• Nov-2017
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Late one night during the fiery days of the Iranian revolution, two figures slip into the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and steal twelve of the world's most valuable paintings. Here's what the thieves don't know: most of the paintings are fake.De...

• May-2017
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Hank Jones isn't kidnapped by aliens. He goes voluntarily.What does he have to lose? It's spring break, 2007. His freshman comp students have taken their bad grammar and bad attitudes to Florida. His dissertation is going nowhere. And his ex is sleep...

• May-2007
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Maybe you think I was replaying this conversation in my head after I yanked the ripcord. Maybe you think that after the parachute jerked me up and after the pain in my near-dislocated shoulders subsided into a steady ache, I applied my investigative ...

• Sep-2004
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It's Valentine's Day and in the latest Cat Caliban mystery love is in the air, especially around the tenants at Cat's apartment building. But things take a more serious turn when a new client, and eccentric old lady in a blue flowered dress, asks Ca...

• Mar-1997
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Cat is truly baffled by her latest case--someone is trying to kill Rocky Zacharius, the jump-rope queen of Cincinnati. While on the trail, Cat faces a fate worse than death - caring for Rocky's three kids!...

• Jun-1996
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CAT CALIBAN INVESTIGATES Suspicion is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids. So Cat Caliban figures she has what it takes to be Cincinnati's smartest snoop: an eye for evidence, a talent for spotting lies, the sharp wit of Erma Bombeck-...

• May-1995
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"Mel had explained to me the whole concept of organic gardening, all about nature and balance and natural enemies. So if the Japanese could send us their beetles, why couldn't they send us a Mothra to eat them? Import quotas?"Death does a land office...

• Aug-1994
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Cat Caliban relives the '60s in her search for a hippie killer. Not only does Cincinnati's smartest snoop and mother of three have to contend with her youngest daughter back home and in her hair, Cat also has an old friend who's been accused of murde...

• Oct-1993
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Suspicion is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids. So Cat Caliban figures she has what it takes to be Cincinatti's smartest snoop: an eye for evidence, a talent for spotting lies, the sharp wit of Erma Bombeck - and the detection skills...

• Mar-1993
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A NEW CAREER ... IN CRIMESOLVING Life changed for Catherine "Cat" Cali ban after thirty-eight years of marriage. She lost a husband, bought an apartment house, got a gun--and decided to become a I? I. And that was before she discovered that her upst...