First in Series Country Music Murder Mystery: Killer Music by Tammy L. Grace (with a guest post)

  When private detective Cooper “Coop” Harrington meets record label mogul Grayson Taylor at a swank gathering of country music artists and politicians he never imagines he’ll be investigating his brutal murder less than twenty-four hours later.   The suspects are plentiful. More than a handful of people could have wanted him dead. Retained by […]
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More proof that cats are out to destroy us.

Exposure to cats in childhood increases the chance of suffering from serious mental health problems like schizophrenia…The parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which is thought to be the cause, is carried in the intestines of cats.

This Childhood Pet Increases Risk of Serious Mental Illness

By Jeremy Dean at PsyBlog

Can’t have a post like this without the Louis Wain cats.

Read more:

Is childhood cat ownership a risk factor for schizophrenia later in life?

Estimating the population attributable fraction for schizophrenia when Toxoplasma gondii is assumed absent in human populations

 

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