CAT IN A ZEBRA ZOOT SUIT

JANET EVANOVICH calls Midnight Louie ",the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled PI on the planet&rdquo, and readers are biting their nails as Carole Nelson Douglas&rsquo,s popular alphabetic Midnight Louie feline PI mystery series nears its end with the 27th and penultimate entry, Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit In Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit, Louie&rsquo,s roommate, petite powerhouse PR freelancer Temple Barr, discovers a strip club opening in a nearby empty building threatens her elderly landlady&rsquo,s wedding chapel business. Electra&rsquo,s Lark&rsquo,s troubles go supernova with a murder charge for a death that echoes a bizarre slaying decades earlier. Temple and Louie must solve why a forgotten fifties night club has become a now a nexus of death and greed. Meanwhile Temple&rsquo,s fiancé,, Matt Devine, ex-priest radio shrink, plays detective with a rough crowd getting rougher, her ex, magician-counterterrorist Max Kinsella, dodges IRA remnants in Ireland, where psychotic liar Kathleen O&rsquo,Connor leads him to his cousin, presumed dead from a pub bombing years earlier. All the investigators&rsquo, pasts draw them into shocking revelations and present peril. Readers have , fretted on online sites for years about the &ldquo,Z&rdquo, book ending Louie&rsquo,s adventures. Not so. A final entry will follow the &ldquo,Z&rdquo, book