
She is half-Irish, half-Jamaican, and she is very tall. She has an incredible ability to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time without fail. Her friends crash the vacation, and even though she tries to be serious, she always seems to end up laughing. She gets dragged into the mystery by the cat. Jasmine Callihan is the main protagonist in the novel, which follows her point of view. When the cute guy at the snack hut turns out to be deeply enmeshed in the case, Jas has to figure out whether he is a friend or a foe. Jas's three best friends sense she needs help and show up to offer insight into the case and fashion advice. Fiona is a famous model who was embroiled in scandal a year earlier when her lover was killed and her husband was arrested for the murder. The cat incident leads to Jas's first run-in with hotel security and her introduction to the cat's owner, the eight-year-old son of Fiona Bristol. Her overprotective father coos with his twenty-years-younger wife and clearly has no intention of letting Jas follow her dream-a career as a detective-any time soon. Her cousin Alyson is being her obnoxious and snotty self. Jas is feeling listless, frustrated and flat in her green bikini. It is a typical afternoon by the pool at the Venetian Hotel.

Along the way, she gets to know the 'cute guy across the pool', who may or may not be involved with the murder. She is suddenly caught up in a mystery regarding the murder of Len Phillips, and is determined to solve it with her best friends, fashion-wise Polly, crazy and eccentric Roxy, and Tom, sensible and totally in love with Polly.

However, as soon as she is attacked by a three-legged cat (Mean and Dangerous Joe, or Mad Joe for short), things go haywire. She is spending her vacation trying to avoid her cousin Alyson and her "Evil Hench Twin" Veronique, get the 'cute guy across the pool', Jack, to notice her, and prove to her father that she is a model daughter. Jasmine Callihan is a 17-year-old girl on vacation in Las Vegas with her family.

It is about a would-be girl detective and her friends. Bad Kitty is a 2006 young adult novel written by Michele Jaffe.
