4.5-STAR REVIEW: CAT & MOUSE by Justin M. Kiska

About The Book

A Parker City Mystery: Book 6
Publication Date: March 31, 2026

Twenty years ago, Elizabeth Blakely was the target of a relentless stalker—someone who sent threatening letters, invaded her life, and left her living in fear. The case made headlines. The threats were chilling. And then… it all stopped.

Now, in the summer of 1985, Elizabeth’s past has come roaring back. A new letter appears—eerily familiar and signed just like the ones before. Then her husband is stabbed in their home.

Parker City Police Detectives Ben Winters and Tommy Mason are handed the case and quickly find themselves trapped in a decades-old maze of obsession, secrets, and psychological scars. As they peel back the layers of the original investigation, they begin to suspect the truth was never what it seemed—and the stalker may have never left.

With pressure mounting, the detectives must solve a mystery rooted in the past to prevent another tragedy in the present. But what they uncover will challenge everything they thought they knew about guilt, innocence, and what it means to be a victim.

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The Review

When Elizabeth Marsh sees familiar handwriting on a threatening letter, it takes her back two decades, when she had been tormented by a stalker.

Detectives Tommy Mason and Ben Winters take on the case in the latest installment in the Parker City Mystery series. Author Justin M. Kiska amps up the suspense in Cat & Mouse.

Told in a dual storyline that switches from past to present, readers get a sense of the terror that swept through the community as anonymous threatening letters put everyone on edge.

Not long after moving back to Parker City, Elizabeth receives another letter. Who is watching her? Could the perpetrator be someone close to her?

Mason and Winters must dig into the past in order to make sense of the present. The urgency intensified when Elizabeth’s husband is attacked.

The author maintains suspense, allowing the conclusion to unfold as the pieces fall into place.

Cat & Mouse offers a fast-paced storyline as the detectives try to make sense of the clues.

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About The Author

Justin is a theatre producer, director, and mystery writer who can usually be found sitting in his library devising new and clever ways to kill people (for his mysteries). In addition to writing the Parker City Mysteries Series, which includes Now & Then, Vice & Virtue, Fact & Fiction, Black & White, and Cops & Robbers, he is also the mastermind behind Marquee Mysteries, a series of interactive mystery events he has been writing and producing for nearly twenty years. Justin and his wife, Jessica, live along Lake Linganore outside of Frederick, Maryland with their pups Brownie and Cocoa.