About One for the Money:
After a lifetime of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban is looking for a new career. Since suspicion is second nature to any woman who’s raised three kids, she decides to go after a private investigator’s license. In ONE FOR THE MONEY, Cat cracks her first case when she finds a dead homeless woman in her apartment building; her search for answers takes her from a present-day urban soup kitchen back to Hollywood’s Golden Era of silent movies. In this first book in the popular Cat Caliban Mysteries series, she assembles her team of tenants, friends, neighborhood hangers-on, three cats and a beagle puppy.
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Author Bio:
D. B. Borton is the author of two mystery series—the Cat Caliban series and the Gilda Liberty series —as well as the standalone mysteries novels SMOKE and BAYOU CITY BURNING and the humorous science fiction novel Second Coming. She is Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio Wesleyan University.
A native Texan, Borton became an ardent admirer of Nancy Drew at a young age. At the age of fourteen, she acquired her own blue roadster, trained on the freeways of Houston and the broad stretches of oil-endowed Texas highway, and began her travels. She also began a lifetime of political activism, working only for political candidates who lost. She left Texas at about the time everyone else arrived.
In graduate school, Borton converted a lifetime of passionate reading and late-night movie-watching into a doctorate in English. She discovered that people would pay her to discuss literature and writing, although not much. But because she found young people interesting and entertaining and challenging, she became a college teacher, and survived many generations of college students. Later, during a career crisis, she discovered that people would pay her to tell stories, although even less than they would pay her to discuss stories written by someone else.
Borton has lived in the Southwest and Midwest, and on the West Coast, where she has planted roses and collected three degrees in English without relinquishing her affection for the ways in which actual speakers constantly reinvent the language to meet their needs. In her spare time, she gardens, practices aikido, studies languages other than English, and, of course, watches movies and reads.