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    "title": "Nine Lives and Alibis",
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    "collection_title": "A cat cafe mystery",
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    "description": "In Nine Lives and Alibis, the seventh in Cate Conte's Cat Caf\u00e9 beloved cozy mystery series, Daybreak Island is gearing up for Halloween\u2014but this year it seems like it'll be all tricks and no treats.\n\nIt\u2019s October in Daybreak Harbor, which means everything Halloween. The town is going all out for the holiday, hoping to one-up the festivities in neighboring Salem, Massachusetts, and Maddie James is delighted to be part of the planning for the annual happenings.\n\nBut trouble brews when Maddie\u2019s youngest sister, Sam, books a famous medium, Balfour Dempsey, to come to town for the celebrations and stay in the local haunted inn\u2014along with his equally famous black cat. The town busybody books a secret reading with Balfour and doesn\u2019t want anyone to know why. Maddie\u2019s best friend Becky is hell-bent on getting Balfour to help her solve two 40-year-old mysteries\u2014a murder and a missing maid. And the psychic has a stalker who\u2019s followed him here to the island, demanding he connect with her dead husband. \n\nWhen Balfour is pushed off the cliffs behind the inn to his death and his beloved cat goes missing, it throws the whole town into a frenzy. And Maddie and her family find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery straight out of a Halloween movie.",
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    "page_count": 328,
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    "created_at": "2025-09-19T14:41:20+00:00",
    "updated_at": "2025-10-31T00:45:01+00:00",
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        "name": "St. Martin's Press",
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