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by Susan Toalson (Author)
Alice Abbott has the perfect job: personal assistant to an elegant, wealthy interior designer with international clientele. When her boss, Marilyn Quinn, is found shot to death in the foyer of her magnificent mansion in a fashionable neighborhood in Austin, the police arrest Alice's friend, Haydn. The problem? Alice can verify his innocence, but the police refuse to consider her information regarding other suspects. After all, what does a seventy-three-year-old woman, who struggles with daily aches and pains and financial worries, know about investigating a murder?Despite feeling ignored and shoved aside, Alice is determined to save Haydn's life. After a tip leads them to evidence at her house, the police detain Alice as an accomplice. Now she has to prove her own innocence as well.Her job gets more difficult, and more murders pile up, until Alice is left with one clue from an improbable source: her white, long-haired cat, Arthur.Alice's discoveries lead her down a shady trail left by those most likely to want Marilyn dead. But before she can turn anything over to the police, she has to piece all the connections together, and convince them the whole thing was Designed for Murder.
