More favorite mystery reads
I’ve heard it said, a picture of a cat on a book cover is a sure winner. And a mystery with cats solving the mystery? Yum. Or, perhaps I should just purr!
New readers might think mysteries with cats are a new thing. Nope. Long before the digital boom and even before Amazon, there were cat mysteries. I’m quite sure I bought every paperback of ‘The Cat Who’ mysteries. The two Siamese and their human, Quilleran, kept me reading episode after episode.
More recently, I’ve become acquainted with other mystery solving cats. Janet Cantrell (a woman with almost as many names as she has mystery series) introduced me to the Fat Cat. (Rates another purr.)
But I’m always on the lookout for something new. The last cover is a book I haven’t yet read. The series sounds interesting — A cat in the stack mystery — library stacks, I believe. Could this be my next favorite read?
Or, maybe you have another suggestion. There’s the magical cats, cats most everywhere. I’d like to hear more!
A search on Amazon reveals more cat mystery series than one can shake a stick at! I enjoyed the first two or three of the Black Cat Bookshop Mystery series by Ali Brandon and plan to get back to it. The characters have enough rough edges to interest me. “Perfect” heroines are not my cup of tea.
Happy reading & writing, Norma!
You are definitely correct about cats and mystery books. I quite agree with you about the rough edged-characters. I’ll have to check out the Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries!