Kathleen Paulson is a librarian in a town in Minnesota. Christmas is approaching; a power failure during a cold snap causes a water pipe to break in an old building used by artists. While helping a workman named Harry pull down damaged drywall in the building, Kathleen and Harry find a dead body in the wall. The body has been there for almost 40 years. Kathleen's fiance, Marcus Gordon, is the police detective who's on the case. They need to identify the body and figure out how she died. Ella, a woman in town who was adopted as a baby, suspects that the body is that of her birth mother. She knows that Kathleen has solved mysteries before, and she wants Kathleen to solve this one, too.
The mystery is kind of the usual "young problem-solving woman figures out who to talk to to learn more info about a mystery/murder, with a few people making it clear that they don't want her looking into this issue, which muddies the suspect list, then the climax." I have to say that the climax in this story is quite an active one. Added to that, Kathleen's two cats have extraordinary powers, including the power of one of her cats to walk through walls and the other to become invisible. Plus the cats seem to know a lot more than a cat would be expected to know... It's the 15th book in the series, although it's the first book I've read. A fast-moving story.
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