There's a secret worth killing for at Island Naturals. A cryptic text brings animal crimes investigator Kieran Yeats to a midnight rendezvous with a client mysteriously named Shrew. Shrew's late, and when she does arrive, there's no time for talk. She hastily throws two packages into a nearby garage dumpster, telling Kieran, "Get the things I've left for you, and for God's sake, don't leave the others behind." Then her VW screeches out of the parking lot, a big SUV in pursuit. The next morning, Shrew is found dead, victim of a supposed one-car traffic accident. Shrew's death, and the packages - which contain a cat in a cloth bag, a phone, and a flash drive - launch Kieran into an investigation of Island Naturals, a respected Vancouver Island cosmetics company, whose reputation rests on the fact that it does not test its products on animals. Or does it? What secret did Shrew discover there? And