Books by D B Borton

#1 Best Seller in the Kindle Store''s list of Top 100 Free Books, January 2021.After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has become Cincinnati''s newest, oldest funniest detective-in-training. After all, suspicion is second nature to any woman who''s raised three kids.So she sells her suburban house, buys an apartment building in a "transitional" neighborhood, and begins training to be a detective. She''s barely had time to settle in, though, before her first case appears in the form of a dead homeless woman in the upstairs apartment. Three other cases follow in quick succession, and Cat investigates them with a colorful cast of housemates, neighborhood hangers-on, three cats, and a beagle puppy.Cat Caliban is a good match for fans of older women detectives like Miss Marple and Mrs. Pollifax, as well as Richard Osman''s Thursday Murder Club series.

"Me, I want it on the record now that I do not want to die hot and sweaty on a gym floor, surrounded by the smell of gym socks and sneakers." ¿After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has become Cincinnati's newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. Since no case is too insignificant, Cat takes on a lost kitten challenge for the neighborhood's preeminent teen entrepreneur. But that leads to a more prominent case: who murdered local high school basketball hero Julius "Juky" Kay, star forward of the Oscar Robertson Rattlesnakes? Long experience with sulky, secretive teenagers gives Cat a leg up in the investigation, but she is a leg down after a basketball hoop newly installed at the Catatonia Arms leads to her first sports injury. Soon Cat is crutch-deep in corruption, but that doesn't prevent her from attending the high school prom with retired cop and tenant Moses Fogg to observe the behavior of Juky's teammates after she's banned by their coach. And he's not the only one trying to stop her investigations. Cat is now in the killer's crosshairs, and he doesn't play fair.

"When you thought about it, I'd pulled off a miracle getting Franny to attend Fred's funeral in tears rather than picketing it in Birkies."After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has become Cincinnati's newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. During the sixties, Cat was too distracted by the war on the home front between her activist daughter and her husband to pay attention to the antiwar movement. But doves, like pigeons, come home to roost, and Franny's visit to her mother coincides with the murder of a former antiwar activist during a new round of demonstrations. Cat investigates to clear one of her homeless friends, a Vietnam vet, who is suspected of the killing. She is daily assaulted by the health food that has invaded her refrigerator and Franny's guitar playing and off-key singing, but as she uncovers secrets from the past a deadlier assailant tries to force her underground permanently.

It's hard to be hard-boiled when your biggest fan and toughest critic is your twelve-year-old daughter.Comedy meets mystery and history in the summer of 1961, when Houston is still a cowboy backwater - overheated, under-air conditioned, and plagued by daily downpours that bring the Gulf of Mexico ashore and wash crawdads down suburban streets.P.I. Harry Lark is running a detective agency out of a seedy downtown office building when a well-dressed out-of-towner entangles him in President Kennedy's moon mission. LBJ and his Texas cronies are plotting to get NASA to build a space center in Houston, but somebody is out to stop them. Harry decides that he's working for the wrong side and gives his client the brush-off, but when a dead body shows up in his office, he discovers that he can't walk away. Then Harry is hired to clear a local civil rights group of involvement in a string of firebombings.Meanwhile, Dizzy and her pals are running a lost and found out of a suburban garage when they're hired to find a missing father who is supposed to be dead and buried.What's the thread connecting a dead mobster, a missing father, torched buildings, and NASA's moon mission? Harry and Dizzy race to find out before the city goes up in flames.If you like stylish, witty writers like Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Lisa Scottoline, and Elmore Leonard, you'll see why Romance Reviews Today's Jani Brooks rates Bayou City Burning "a Perfect 10 book." You may agree with blogger Brooke Gunderman when she calls Bayou City Burning "one of my new favorite books!"Will Harry and Dizzy save the city? Will Harry survive a month of single parenthood? Buy Now to find out.