Welcome to my stop on the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour for Cat Conundrum (Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mysteries) by Mollie Hunt. Stop by each blog on the tour for interviews, guest posts, spotlights, reviews and more!
A locked room. A dead man. The cat is the only witness, and he isn’t talking.
Cat Conundrum (Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mysteries) by Mollie Hunt
Cat Conundrum (Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
7th in Series
Independently Published (October 29, 2020)
Number of Pages: 292
Locked-room murders are being committed in sleepy little Long Beach, Washington. As to the killer, Sheriff Matt Boulder has no idea who or why.
The sheriff needs help. He calls his friend, animal cop Denny Paris, and gets a surprise bonus: Lynley Cannon, amateur sleuth. This isn’t how the sixty-something cat shelter volunteer envisioned her beach vacation, but when Denny asks her to join him in the search, how can she refuse?
While the officers investigate one line of inquiry, Lynley takes a different approach. Her only clues, a cat found at the murder scene and a rich man’s missing wife, lead her thread by thread to a scheme more insidious than fiction.
But who will she tell when she turns out to be the one in the locked room?
My review of Cat Conundrum
I am a crazy cat lady, love mysteries, and dream of beach vacations. Lynley is my kindred spirit. Those of us who have cats just know that life is better with cats! Even though Cat Conundrum is the first book I’ve read in The Crazy Cat Lady Mystery Series, I didn’t feel lost at all, so you can jump on in here with me! Believe me, I am adding the rest of the books to my TBR pile!
Cat Conundrum is my idea of the perfect cozy mystery book. It’s totally clean, has quirky characters among its cast, has cats (dogs work too!), and a mystery that takes most of the book to figure out. Oh, yeah, and my mom could read it! (That’s part of my checklist haha!)
I quickly fell for the characters in the book and feel like I’ve known them for a long time. They’re well described, and you could easily picture them as your friends. I want to hang out with them and go clamming and shopping. If you’ve read any of the books in this series, I’m sure you know what I mean.
The setting is beautiful, and I don’t know how anyone could leave this vacation house and head back to the city after staying here. I dream of living by the water…this water may be a little cold though. I guess I can take it if anyone wants to buy me this pretend place!
You will love guessing whodunit as you read Cat Conundrum. I thought I had it figured out until about 70% into the book. The author does a great job of throwing us off the scent! I highly recommend this cozy to all of you cozy mystery lovers! I can’t wait to read more!
About Mollie Hunt
Native Oregonian Mollie Hunt has always had an affinity for cats, so it was a short step for her to become a cat writer. Mollie is the author of The Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mystery Series, featuring Lynley Cannon, a sixty-something cat shelter volunteer who finds more trouble than a cat in catnip. The 3rd in the series, CAT’S PAW, was a finalist for the 2016 Mystery & Mayhem Book Award. The 5th, CAT CAFÉ, won the World’s Best Cat Litter-ary Award in 2019. The 6th, COSMIC CAT, is the winner of the Cat Writers Association Muse Medallion Award for Best Cat Mystery 2019.
Mollie’s sci-fantasy, CAT SUMMER (Fire Star Press) also won a Muse Medallion, this time for Best Cat Sci-fi Fantasy. CAT SUMMER is the first in her Cat Seasons Tetralogy where cats save the world from an evil older than history—twice! Mollie published a stand-alone mystery, PLACID RIVER RUNS DEEP, which delves into murder, obsession, and the challenge of chronic illness in bucolic southwest Washington. Two of her short cat stories have been published in anthologies. She has a little book of Cat Poems as well.
Mollie is a member of the Oregon Writers’ Colony, Sisters in Crime, Willamette Writers, the Cat Writers’ Association, and the Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA). She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and a varying number of cats. Like Lynley, she is a grateful shelter volunteer.
Author Links
You can find Mollie Hunt, Cat Writer on her blogsite: www.lecatts.wordpress.com
Amazon Page: www.amazon.com/author/molliehunt
Facebook Author Page: www.facebook.com/MollieHuntCatWriter/
Fire Star Author Page: http://prairierosepublications.com/authors_2/mollie-hunt\
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7768987.Mollie_Hunt
Sign up for Mollie’s Extremely Informal Newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/c0fOTn.
Purchase Link: Amazon
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Tour Participants
November 16
Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST
I Read What You Write – REVIEW
Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
November 17
Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
Reading Is My SuperPower – SPOTLIGHT
Jane Reads – GUEST POST
November 18
I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT
Author Elena Taylor’s Blog – GUEST POST
November 19
Sneaky the Library Cat’s Blog– CHARACTER INTERVIEW
Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Dee-Scoveries – SPOTLIGHT
November 20
Mochas, Mysteries and Meows – CHARACTER GUEST POST
Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
November 21
Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW
FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
November 22
Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
Literary Gold -SPOTLIGHT
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This looks like a great book for readers who are crazy about cats and/or mysteries!
This is really nice! and I do hope to get the chance to read your lovely story here with murder and mayem.
@tisonlyme143
It looks like a good read.
Sounds like a good cozy.
Thanks so much for the wonderful review! I loved your personal comments, such as your affinity for cats and desire to live at the beach. I hope all your wishes come true.
Meows, Mollie
You’re welcome! Thank you too!
I love cats and my daughter also. This book and items would be a wonderful gift for her!
I enjoy reading cozy mysteries and having animals solve them is especially engaging.
This sounds like a really good read.
This sounds like a fun new cozy mystery series to start. Thanks for sharing!