Lydia Adamson

Actress and amateur sleuth Alice Nestleton finds herself the prime suspect in the killings of two of her actor friends after she presents a fancy annniversary meal for the happy couple only to have them die of food poisoning, and the only witnesses are the victims' two young kittens.

Helping a research team tag pregnant black bears in the northern Catskills, veterinarian Didi Nightingale and her friend, Rose, are horrified when the base camp's caretaker is murdered and they realize that someone in the group is a killer.