Lydia Adamson: Dr. Nightingale Traps the Missing Lynx (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
Dr. Dierdre "Didi"Nightingale takes a job to appear at a local fundraiser and give six adorable mixed-breed bobcat kittens a clean bill of health. But when the party's host walks in covered with bloody scratches -- and drops dead -- Didi is puzzled. The kittens may have a wild streak, but they aren't killers. And Didi recognizes the symptoms of a fatal snakebite. Now it's time to go hunting for a snake that walks like a man...

Lydia Adamson: Dr. Nightingale Traps the Missing Lynx. Signet, ISBN: 0451197739 (June, 1999), 217 p., $5.99.