In their debut mystery, Jacques and Cleo and their owner ... or rather the human they own, Kate Forrest, and her son, Jeremy, move to a beautiful beach house in Gulf Shores, Alabama, left to Kate by a distant relative. The catch is that another distant relative, wanna-be novelist (and bonafide cat-hater) Jake Novak, has also inherited an interest in the house. Undeterred, Kate and Jeremy move in the downstairs quarters and Jake takes the separate apartment upstairs. Then, when a murder occurs ... everyone is stumped -- but feline sleuths Jacques and Cleo come to the rescue and reveal the identity of the killer.