Murphy's Law

When Mark Murphy, an experienced but burnt out newspaper reporter, takes a job on a second-rate city daily, he's really just looking for a steady income and a little peace and quiet. What he gets is a murder mystery. First, the body of a drowned journalist washes up on English Bay beach. Next, the girlfriend of the journalist turns up dead in his apartment. It looks like a crime of passion followed by a suicide. But Murphy doesn’t buy it and begins hunting for the real killers. Along the way, he gets help from Ronald Phillips, a green but eager student reporter, Cynthia Drummond, a city hall reporter with a cool exterior but warm interior, and a little black cat named Fred with a weird obsession for pushing buttons. Currently rated 4.5 on GoodReads.