Welcome to my stop on the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour for Detective Whiskers Cat Cozy Mysteries by Chris Abernathy. Stop by each blog on the tour for interviews, guest posts, spotlights, reviews and more!
Detective Whiskers Cat Cozy Mysteries
by Chris Abernathy
About CSI: Cat Sleuth Investigation
CSI: Cat Sleuth Investigation: A Detective Whiskers Cat Cozy Mystery
by Chris Abernathy
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting – Florida
Wright on the Mark, LLC (June 20, 2023)
Paperback : 170 pages
A cat who thinks he’s a detective. A group of amateur female sleuths in a quiet beach town. A dead man. It’s a recipe for fun – unless you’re the local police chief.
There are worse ways to go than sitting on a beach chair in Paradise Cove with a refreshing drink in your hand. But who wanted the victim dead? Detective Whiskers will need all his new friends to solve the case, but do they even want to talk to him after solving his first murder has
gone to his head?
Sheila’s grandson comes to visit Paradise Cove and love is in the air, along with too much body spray, when young Freddy meets Susi the housecleaner. He might regret staying in town, though, when the murder investigation turns in his direction.
The Paradise Cove Murder Society and Detective Whiskers are on the case … and getting in Chief Anderson’s way again.
If you love humorous cozy mysteries where pets take the lead and eccentric friends come together to solve crimes with just the right amount of suspense then the Detective Whiskers Cozy Mystery Series is exactly what you’re looking for. Buy CSI: Cat Sleuth Investigation now and find out why the only thing better than a K-9 cop is a feline detective!
About Miami Mice
Miami Mice: A Detective Whiskers Cat Cozy Mystery
by Chris Abernathy
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – Florida
Wright on the Mark, LLC. (July 18, 2023)
Paperback : 202 pages
A cat who thinks he’s a detective. Some amateur female sleuths. A fisherman hooks a dead body in the water.
A pair of stowaway mice find themselves stranded at Sheila Mason’s cottage when the boat they are on sinks. They may be forced to go into the Whiskers Protection Program once it is discovered that the boat was carrying a shipment of illegal drugs. Can Detective Whiskers keep his witnesses safe and stop a dangerous cartel from destroying life in Paradise Cove?
Sheila and her friends in the Paradise Cove Murder Society are also busy investigating a suspicious stranger who showed up in town at the same time. Is he responsible for the body discovered on the beach?
If you love humorous cozy mysteries where pets take the lead and eccentric friends come together to solve crimes with just the right amount of suspense then the Detective Whiskers Cozy Mystery Series is exactly what you’re looking for. Buy Miami Mice now and find out why the only thing better than a K-9 cop is a feline detective!
About Purrder, She Wrote
Purrder, She Wrote: A Detective Whiskers Cat Cozy Mystery
Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Setting – Florida
Wright on the Mark, LLC (September 12, 2023)
Print length : ~204 pages
Who would be crazy enough to commit murder while surrounded by dozens of crime mystery writers?
The evidence clearly points to one suspect. The problem is, there’s no way they could have done it.
Our cat detective and the Paradise Cove Mystery Society face an old foe in the fourth installment of the Detective Whiskers Cozy Mystery Series. The stakes have never been higher and the mystery has never been stranger.
If you love humorous cozy mysteries where pets take the lead and eccentric friends come together to solve crimes with just the right amount of suspense then the Detective Whiskers Cozy Mystery Series is exactly what you’re looking for. Buy Purrder, She Wrote now and find out why the only thing better than a K-9 cop is a feline detective!
Author Guest Post
My Detective Whiskers Cozy Mystery Series is about a cat and his human companion who find themselves in the middle of a series of murders in a quaint beach town. It is also about moving on from an unwanted disruption in life and discovering the best new chapter you can write in your life.
Whiskers and Sheila both had their lives turned around wen Fred, Sheila’s husband and Whiskers’ mentor, suddenly died on the day he was set to retire. They moved to the beach house Fred had bought and started their lives over.
My own life was disrupted three years ago when Hurricane Sally uprooted my family and me only four days after moving to a new home in Orange Beach, Alabama. Things changed in one long, scary night. How would we start again?
A month later we moved into a different new home an hour away. My wife had found work at a local university. I had work that I could do from home but it wasn’t fulfilling my personal creative needs.
A couple of years before, we had taken a cruise with some friends and I had spent every night of the cruise writing a novel on the balcony of our cabin (the one time we actually splurged for a balcony). I loved my writing time. The whole vacation was wonderful but the writing was an unexpected bonus. Away from my regular responsibilities that was how I chose to spend my free time. Then, when we returned home, the book was set aside unfinished. With my life in upheaval after the hurricane I finally returned to the book and finished it. Then I realized there was a prequel already in my brain and I wrote that story as well. I self-published them and waited to see how they would be received.
Crickets.
Other than family and friends, not many people read those books. I spent more money on editing and getting a cover than I recouped in royalties. So I failed as a writer. That’s how some people would view the situation anyway. And how I felt at times. But writing those books had given me joy and, if I’m honest, some therapy. I wrote stories that needed to be written whether anyone read them or not. I turned my attention to look at the silver linings and looked at the comments I received from friends and in reviews from the handful of strangers that found the books. I considered their feedback and did research to see where the things I did well matched up with the books that people were willing to spend a little of their hard-earned income to read. I found a genre, cozy mysteries, that I believed I could write well and that readers wanted more of. I considered the best way I could add to the existing market in that genre. I dreamed up several ideas for series. Then I picked one and started writing the Detective Whiskers Cozy Mystery Series.
The first book in that series, Paw and Order, was released in May of this year while I was finishing the second book and creating a storyline for the third book. The initial reviews started coming in and readers loved it! With each new release I saw more and more readers discovering the series. Sales were picking up and I was earning more than I was spending. Success!
So where am I now? Book four is about to be released as I write this guest post. It has more pre-sale orders than any of the previous books and reviews for each of the already published books has gotten good reviews. I’m not yet earning a lot of money and what I do earn is being put back into building my new business. The business of being an author. With each new release I gain more readers, more followers on Amazon, GoodReads, BookBub and other online channels. More readers sign up for my newsletter. All of these things make it easier to earn a profit from my next book.
So, just like the main characters in the series, I’m at the beginning of a new chapter in my life. Is it scary? Yeah, sometimes it terrifies me. Do I love it? Absolutely! Every morning I get on my computer and look at the statistics for my books and see that while I was sleeping somebody was reading my stories. I see new reviews pop up. Most of them are good reviews from happy readers. The best part isn’t just that they gave a book a good review. What I love most is when they mention something specific about the book that they enjoyed. Knowing which characters and situations made reading that book a great experience for them gives me personal joy and helps me make sure I put more of those characters and situations in the next book.
Thank you for helping me write a new chapter in my life. I have a feeling it will be the best chapter yet!
About Chris Abernathy
Chris Abernathy has narrated more than 200 audiobooks and now he is writing his own stories. He has been a storyteller his entire life — around campfires at a summer camp as a counselor, on the radio for more than 30 years, as an actor with background roles on major motion pictures and TV series, as a producer of short films for social media and more. Chris is married with two sons and lives on the Gulf Coast in Alabama. He is a dual national with citizenship in the US and UK and visits family in the Scottish Highlands as often as possible.
Author Links
Webpage – http://authorchrisabernathy.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/authorchrisabernathy/
Amazon author profile – https://www.amazon.com/stores/Chris-Abernathy/author/B07YLJPKNQ
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Purchase Link – Amazon
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Detective Whiskers TOUR PARTICIPANTS
September 12 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT
September 12 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR GUEST POST
September 12 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
September 13 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
September 13 – Lady Hawkeye – SPOTLIGHT
September 14 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
September 14 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT
September 15 – Cozy Up WIth Kathy – REVIEW
September 15 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
September 15 – Hearts & Scribbles – SPOTLIGHT
September 16 – Mystery, Thrillers, and Suspense – SPOTLIGHT
September 16 – #BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee – SPOTLIGHT
September 17 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
September 17 – Mystery, Thrillers, and Suspense – SPOTLIGHT
September 17 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
September 18 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
September 19 – The Plain-Spoken Pen – REVIEW
September 20 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST
September 20 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
September 20 – Ruff Drafts – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
September 21 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
September 22 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
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Looks like a great series. I love cats.
cute cover