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.

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.

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.

Jas's three best friends sense she needs help and show up to offer insight into the case and fashion advice.

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.

A typical, really pretty California girl, all long blonde hair and blue eyes and skinny tan limbs.

It is, as the name suggests, pink, with fake diamonds around the windows and shag carpeting in the back.

She can eat more food faster than anyone Jas has seen, has a perfect sense of direction and over one spring break built a working TV out of an old toaster.

Critical reception for Bad Kitty was mostly positive, with Publishers Weekly praising the book's characters.

[1] The School Library Journal wrote that "the story is somewhat convoluted and often defies credulity", but also praised the book's characters.

[2] Booklist called the character of Jas "likable, quick-witted, and extremely funny".

[3] Kirkus Reviews stated that although "the protagonist’s voice... sometimes grates", it is "paradoxically the book’s greatest asset".