Alice Nestleton Books in Order

Cat sitter and actress Alice Nestleton expects a quiet Christmas caring for eight Himalayan cats at a Long Island estate. Instead she finds a corpse and stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy involving horse racing, seduction, and missing money.

A string of killings points to a cat-loving predator who steals pets and leaves toy mice at the scenes. Alice follows the trail from the Adirondacks to Central Park, where a strange cat-worshipping cult may hold the answer.

An acting student gives Alice a beautiful white cat, then is murdered days later and the cat disappears. Alice's search for the stolen pet draws her into a dead actor's secrets, and a dangerous story of love and revenge.

Alice joins a group of cat lovers tending a Manhattan herb garden. Their harvest celebration ends when a member falls from a high terrace. What looks like suicide soon becomes a murder case among friends with plenty to hide.

During a performance of The Nutcracker, Alice learns that a former ballet star has been found murdered. When her friend Lucia is blamed, Alice searches from homeless shelters to wealthy art salons for the truth behind the crime.

A shooting at a Chinese restaurant leaves a waitress dead and a tabby cat missing. Alice teams with a Mandarin-speaking police officer, determined to find the cat and expose the people behind the murder.

Alice delivers a Scottish-fold cat to a remote Massachusetts artists' colony, hoping for a break after a failed play. Instead, a visiting pianist is murdered, and Alice must investigate while the local police ignore her suspicions.

When Alice seeks help from the Village Cat People for her difficult cat, their representative is murdered on her doorstep. The group asks Alice to investigate, drawing her into a dangerous trail through old New York secrets.

Alice's first film role takes her to southern France, where the glamour of a movie shoot is quickly spoiled by murder. Far from home and surrounded by suspects, she must use her instincts to find out who is rewriting the script.

Alice takes part in a fashionable New York boutique's advertising shoot, where a designer's cat has been pushed aside. When a death shakes the fashion world, she discovers that glamour, jealousy, and feline loyalty make a risky mix.

In Atlantic City for an acting job, Alice is startled when a cat appears at her sixteenth-floor hotel window. Her search for its owner leads straight to a murder scene and a case where luck has nothing to do with survival.

Alice and her partner, Tony Basillio, witness the murder of a Broadway mogul's hated wife. Two Maine coon cats may hold key clues, but Alice has to navigate theater rivalries and dangerous secrets before the killer strikes again.

While taking a client's cat to an animal psychologist, Alice finds the doctor dead in her office. A taped voice message deepens the puzzle, and Alice follows a feline trail through a case that is anything but a quiet holiday visit.

House-sitting in a quiet Hamptons town, Alice attends a local poetry reading and survives a car bombing that kills an aspiring poet. More deaths follow, and Alice must connect the town's old resentments to the present violence.

Days before Christmas, Alice is asked to find the anonymous donor who keeps a soup kitchen running. A board member's death and the murder of the missing benefactor convince her that the charity is hiding a deadly connection.

A rich woman offers Alice a large fee to care for her cat, then is shot before she can hand it over. The supposed pet turns out to be stuffed, sending Alice into a bizarre case involving old acting acquaintances.

A wealthy widow asks Alice to help find a cat companion for her aging dog. When the new cat is kidnapped and the widow is later killed, Alice becomes a suspect and must uncover the reason behind the strange ransom plot.

Alice is hired to protect Fancy, a Russian blue caught in a bitter divorce. A robbery, a murder, a catnapping, and a gallery fire soon convince her that Fancy's feuding owners are tied to something much more dangerous.

Alice arranges a special anniversary dinner for her elderly actor friends, Alex and Lila. When both die from poisoned food, she becomes the leading suspect. Their two kittens saw everything, but cannot tell Alice who set her up.

Alice agrees to entertain Brat, the cat of reclusive writer Louis Morant. At her first visit, Brat is missing and Morant is dead. Finding the cat soon becomes part of Alice's hunt for a killer.

Another cat-sitting commitment draws actress Alice Nestleton into a new New York mystery. As a suspicious death complicates an already odd assignment, Alice follows the clues while trying to keep both herself and the cat out of danger.

This two-in-one collection brings together Alice Nestleton's first cases. In one, Christmas cat-sitting leads to a Long Island murder plot. In the other, a gifted white cat, a murdered acting student, and a theft pull Alice into danger.