I began writing this book in 2017. At that time, I had a Siamese cat named Oliver whom I’d adopted from my mother when she was admitted to a nursing home with dementia. Oliver was a senior cat. He’d been diagnosed with kidney disease two years before I started the book. Many of Oliver’s traits are included in the story, exhibited by Cathy’s cat of the same name.
We had to say goodbye to Oliver before I finished the first draft of The Case of the Cat Crazy Lady. There’s a scene in the book where Cathy reads a poem that the deputy sheriff wrote for his cat after she died. I wrote this poem after I lost Oliver.
The Case of the Cat Crazy Lady.The Buttercup Bend series isn’t the only book I’ve written that features a Siamese cat. The main pet character of my Cobble Cove series, Sneaky the Lib
