A Second Hand Cat

Author Steve Lohengrin. Back cover reads - A Broken man with a violent past is surrounded by murder in the company of a damaged cat. In a gray world, can anything be just black and white?

Charles Wall was hailed as a hero, but it left him dealing with a Traumatic Brain injury. After a violent fit of rage his police friends helped him avoid prison, but he spent two years in a psychiatric facility. Now he goes by Roland, lives in public housing, and works part time at the library for food money. Isolated and lonely, he struggles to even talk.

Then one of his very few friends is brutally murdered, and he inherits Claude, her nice, quiet old man of a cat. Claude, however, turns out to be a homicidal mess that just wants to be left alone. When another woman is murdered, it's discovered that Wall had a connection to her as well.

Because both victims were lesbians, an ambitious FBI Agent involves himself in the case, hoping the lurid headlines will give his career a boost, after evidence that could have been used against Wall disappears, the Agent, knowing Wall's past, locks his sights on him,

Meanwhile, Wall finds out that one of his neighbors is spying on him, the others fear him, the local newspaper is vilifying him, a mysterious woman is stalking him, even his own psychiatrist is angry with him, and it's always raining. It's starting to make him feel like he did when he murdered before.

And the cat is not helping. Or is he?