Love Bites

Love Bites is the first book in a snarky supernatural mystery series with a heroine who has her priorities in order: Solve the murder, save the day, but most importantly--feed her cats.

A girl's gotta eat--and so do her three cats. Recently divorced art history grad student Hanna Harvey has just fibbed her way into a job as the assistant to dangerously drool-worthy art gallery owner Mark Abernathy.

For Hanna, working in the field she desperately loves provides the perfect opportunity to begin putting her life back together. Soon her cheese budget is in the black and her feline life partners are no longer eyeing her like a six-foot can of Fancy Feast.

But when her boss's lady friends start turning up dead, Hanna finds herself in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. Even worse, hunky homicide detective James Morrison fears hers might be the next body he discovers.

With the "help" of the gallery's quirky cast of resident artists, Hanna will have to hunt down the truth about Abernathy's dark secret--before it hunts her.

Author: Cynthia St Aubin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 09/09/2025
Series: Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery #1
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.57lbs
ISBN: 9781250407115


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025

About the Author
USA Today bestselling author Cynthia St. Aubin is the author of The Case Files of Dr. Matilda Schmidt and the Jane Avery mysteries, Private Lies and Lying Low. She wrote her first play at age eight and made her brothers perform it for the admission price of gum wrappers. A steal, considering she provided the wrappers in advance. Though her early work debuted to mixed reviews, she never quite gave up on the writing thing, even while earning a mostly useless master's degree in art history and taking her turn as a cube monkey in the corporate warren. Because the voices in her head kept talking to her, and they discourage drinking at work, she started writing instead.