Catapult — Maureen Murphy Williams

The three cats crawled toward the huge dark object that had so frightened them. It didn't move, but that didn't mean it couldn't move… The looming giant was a Catapult, a scary addition to the pumpkin patch, but inert and harmless. The farmer had moved the contraption into the field earlier that day â€" before the cats descended upon the grounds for their nightly hunt. As the cats moved cautiously toward the specter, the air was suddenly filled with the scent of something else â€" death. A human scarecrow stood guard in front of the Catapult. Not that the scarecrow was a living human any longer. In the fourth of the Mo the Shelter Cat Mystery series, Mo and her friends are determined to solve another murder in Wine Country. The felines keep the peace in Seven Oaks, Oregon, and are poster cats for shelters everywhere.