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Meet secondhand shop owner Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, in the first novel in the New York Times bestselling Second Chance Cat Mystery series...

Sarah Grayson is the happy proprietor of Second Chance, a charming shop in the oceanfront town of North Harbor, Maine. At the shop, she…

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While the setting and characters are standard for cozy mysteries, some elements make this a favorite series of mine. The setting is pretty typical–the second-hand up-cycling shop in a small New England town is run by a single woman. Elvis the cat helps solve the mysteries in a perfectly logical and cat-like manner.

Where this series differs is the tension of the long romance arc that lands exactly where I thought it should–after being afraid Sarah would go for the wrong Mr. Right. Additionally, in some cozies, the team-of-little-old-ladies trope is bland.

Ryan’s characters are distinct, with varied personalities and…

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