I’m proud to announce my new release, Cozy Pet Interviews: A Compilation of Mystery Series Featuring Pets. This reference book includes interviews with nearly 200 pet characters, their author bios, and several handy indexes. A perfect resource for cozy lovers to find their next book and series, a great gift for cozy readers, and a useful addition to a library or bookstore collection.
The Case of the Bullfighting Builder is on sale for 99 cents until September 16.
When Cathy Jefferson’s builder is found dead at the construction site of her new home, she’s pulled into a murder investigation that will test her detective skills like never before.
While sorting through her grandmother’s attic, Cathy uncovers a secret about her parents, who died in a car crash years earlier. Now juggling two cases and determined to learn the truth about her parents’ death and catch her builder’s killer, Cathy teams up with her fellow detectives Nancy and Howard.
Their investigation leads them to a ranch where a prize bull is kept, and to Cathy’s estranged uncle and her college roommate. As secrets unravel and danger closes in from every direction, Cathy discovers that the biggest surprise of all may still be waiting for her.
Will Cathy catch her builder’s killer so that her new home can be finished, and will she receive closure about the death of her parents? Find out in THE CASE OF THE BULLFIGHTING BUILDER, the sixth book in the Buttercup Bend Mysteries series by Debbie De Louise.
I’m a participant in this Facebook event in the Cozy Mystery Village. You’re invited to attend Friday, June 5 from 9 a.m. to Sunday, June 8 at 9 p.m. I’ll be sharing a giveaway (or 2) at this event and there will be giveaways and prizes all weekend long. Winners will be announced Monday, June 9. Don’t miss this great book event.
I’m proud to announce the 3-volume release of my Buttercup Bend cozy mysteries, The Case of the Whale Watching Wedding Planner, The Case of the Reptile Rescuing Receptionist, and The Case of the Bullfighting Builder. You can read all 3 in this collection. https://books2read.com/u/mVoQVZ
For those who enjoy short stories, check out the multi-genre anthology, Curious Cats, the first volume in the Nine Lives Library. My story, “The Case of Sam Spaded” is featured. https://www.amazon.com/Curious-Cats-Original-Short-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0GZMVDCJZ
The Cat’s Out of the Bag: The Nine Lives Library Is Here!
The first volume of the Nine Lives Library is almost here! Curious Cats, a collection of 12 short mysteries, is a tribute to the enigmatic creatures that share our lives. The anthology debuts May 29 and includes a short story by me called “The Case of Sam Spaded.”
You can reserve your ebook copy today at https://www.amazon.com/Curious-Cats-Original-Short-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0GZMVDCJZ. The paperback will be available on May 29.
If you love cats, a good mystery, or both — order your copy today.
Also, check out the 99-cent sale for my Buttercup Bend cozy mystery, The Case of the Llama Raising Librarian at https://books2read.com/u/bPLBJJ.
After solving two murders in the “peaceful” town of Buttercup Bend, Cathy Carter needs a rest. She also needs time to consider the marriage proposals she received over the holidays. But when the town’s librarian asks her to go undercover to solve the suspected murder of a co-worker who retired to a llama farm, Cathy leaves her kittens with her grandmother and her friends without an explanation.
The only person at Oaks Landing Farm who knows the true reason Cathy and Mildred have come there is Danielle, the murder victim’s daughter, who is having trouble convincing relatives and the police that her mother Doris was killed and didn’t suffer the heart attack that was termed her cause of death.
When it’s proved that Danielle’s suspicions are correct, the guests who attended the dinner at which Doris died are invited back for a reenactment of that night. These included the gardener, veterinarian, and farmhand who all had motives to murder Doris, as well as Doris’ sister and her ex-husband. When the dinner is staged, the only clue Cathy receives is given by Danielle’s grandmother who has dementia. Will this unreliable tip help Cathy deduce who murdered the llama raising librarian?
Critters and Crimes: Magical Cozy Mystery Book Club
by Elizabeth Pantley
Critters and Crimes: Magical Cozy Mystery Book Club
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
11th in Series
Better Beginnings, Inc. (February 15, 2026)
Print length : 336 pages
ASIN : B0FLX616P2
A quaint riverside town holds many secrets … and the only ones who’ve seen it all are the critters.
This book club dives (literally!) into the pages of a cozy mystery. The quirky group must solve the mystery to get out of the book. It’s so much fun – you’ll wish you had a book club like this!
In this journey, they choose a book set in a lovely riverside town. They land in a charming neighborhood and find they are part of a local book club. They are having a great time – and then a dead body shows up. (Of course it does!)
The clues to what happened come to them in a unique way – via the critters in the house.
As usual, the club finds plenty of time to enjoy the unique setting of their journey, as they solve the mystery – one critter at a time.
REVIEW
5-STARS
Elizabeth Pantley’s Magical Cozy Mystery Book Club just keeps getting better and better. There’s enough back story and character development for new readers to enjoy this book, although all of them are so good you may want to read all the others in the series after finishing this one.
In this 11th addition to the series, Frank the talking cat becomes an official member of the book club, and Paige discovers her feelings for Atticus. It looks like he will return them with a nudge from her. The book they enter holds many mysteries including a beautiful garden library that follows them home.
The main mystery involves the murder of a man in a riverside town who kept a bunch of animals, and I really enjoyed the way they each of them participated in the murder investigation. There are several twists and lots of fun in this engaging cozy mystery.
Elizabeth writes well-loved cozy mysteries in two series: The Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic book series and the Magical Mystery Book Club series.
Elizabeth lives in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona, two very different places. Both are rich, gorgeous, natural places, and inspire the settings in many of her books.
Author Links
Website – https://elizabethpantleyauthor.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DestinyFallsMysteryandMagic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/destinyfallsmystery/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/series/345907-magical-mystery-book-club
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/elizabeth-pantley
Purchase Link: Amazon
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I’m proud to announce the release of Rock a Bye Bye Baby, the sixth Cobble Cove cozy mystery featuring Alicia, the librarian; Sneaky, the library cat, and KittyKai, the inn cat. The book is available on Amazon as an eBook and on Kindle Unlimited. It will also be in print form soon. For those not familiar with the series, I’ve provided backstory to help you catch up. However, the previous five books are still available starting with A Stone’s Throw.
Although the last book in the series, No Gravestone Unturned was published in 2020, Sneaky’s Supernatural Mystery and Other Cobble Cove Stories was published in 2022 and won an award for its Christmas story. To catch up on the series, I also wrote a more recent single short story, Sneaky’s Birthday Mystery, that I gave away to my newsletter subscribers. If you’d like a free copy of that story, click here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/ex2u8xxs4n
Although Rock a Bye Baby features an abandoned infant left on Alicia and John’s doorstep, the main mystery involves the murder of two of Mac’s poker pals who also served with him in Vietnam. There are a host of suspects including a mother, ex-wife, and granddaughter of a victim, a housecleaner, and a young woman who was typing a manuscript for the first victim that someone may have considered more realistic than fiction. The book will be on tour with Great Escapes Virtual Blog Tour from October 27 to November 5. More information about the tour and its giveaway will be included in my October newsletter and on this blog.
***** 5 stars
What a fun read for cozy mystery fans and cat lovers alike. Besides the adorable cover that could’ve been modeled after my handsome cat, Harry, the story contains just the right mixture of mystery and chills. Not having read the previous installments in the series, I didn’t have any problems following the plot. However, I’m planning to catch up with the other mysteries soon because this book has really piqued my interest in the series.
Taking place at a hotel that holds murder mysteries, the main character, a sixty-something lady named Camillia Collins, joins an old college friend, Anne Pine, for what she believes will be a fun weekend of pretend murder. Boy, is she wrong. Not only does her ghost cat, Soji, introduced in an earlier book, turn up with a warning, but a human ghost, Angel Day, also appears to her.
The staged murder occurs as predicted, but a real one follows. As in many horror tales, there’s also a storm raging outside, so the police aren’t able to get through the roads. Camillia, aka Inspector McPride, the character she was picked to play in the murder mystery, finds herself trapped with the other murder-mystery participants, one of whom is a real killer. Can she live up to her make-believe persona to solve the murder and live to tell the tale, and will the ghost of Angel Day and the ghost cat, Soji, assist her? You’ll only know if you read this fun cozy.
Ghost Cat at the Mystery Hotel (A Tenth Life Cozy Mystery)
by Mollie Hunt
Ghost Cat at the Mystery Hotel (A Tenth Life Cozy Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – Oregon Coast
Independently Published (May 30, 2024)
Number of Pages: 246
Digital ASIN : B0CW3DGRK3
The game is murder at the Mystery Beach Hotel.
When Camelia Collins meets her old college friend Anne Pine for a murder mystery weekend at the coast, death becomes more than a game.
Accompanied by her ghost cat companion Soji, Camelia begins to discover clues that have nothing to do with the role-playing storyline. A lurking stranger spies on Camelia from the house next door. A vengeful spirit haunts the hotel. A winter storm rages outside, threatening the old building, while a murderer roams the halls, threatening those within.
Will Camelia’s keen senses and Soji’s feline wiles be enough to catch the killer before they kill again?
Cat Writer Mollie Hunt is the award-winning author of two cozy series, the Crazy Cat Lady Mysteries and the Tenth Life Mysteries. Her Cat Seasons Sci-Fantasy Tetralogy features extraordinary cats saving the world. Mollie also released a cat-themed COVID memoir. In her spare time, she pens a bit of cat poetry as well.
Mollie is a member of the Oregon Writers’ Colony, Sisters in Crime, the Cat Writers’ Association, Willamette Writers, and Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA). She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and a varying number of cats.
Author Links
You can find Mollie Hunt, Cat Writer on her blogsite:https://molliehuntcatwriter.com/
Follow Mollie’s Amazon Page: www.amazon.com/author/molliehunt
Facebook Author Page: www.facebook.com/MollieHuntCatWriter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/molliehuntcatwriter/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7768987.Mollie_Hunt
GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210323563-ghost-cat-at-the-mystery-hotel
Purchase Link – Amazon
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I’m proud to announce that my short story, “Sneaky’s Supernatural Mystery” from the book, Sneaky’s Supernatural Mystery and Other Cobble Cove Stories (mybook.to/CCcollection), has won the Cat Writers’ Association’s 2023 Muse Medallion Award. It’s a purr-fect read for cat lovers and cozy mystery readers.
I also have a few book sales going on, but they’re ending soon, so you need to hurry to get them at the discounted price. My mysteries, Sea Scope (https://bit.ly/46rZL7n), about a murder at a lighthouse and The Case of the Cat Crazy Lady (https://bit.ly/3MZmsYF), the first book of my Buttercup Bend cozy mystery series, are both on sale on Kobo for 99 cents until October 23. They’re great October reads. Don’t miss them.
The three books in my Buttercup Bend cozy mystery series, The Case of the Cat Crazy Lady, The Case of the Parrot Loving Professor, and The Case of the Llama Raising Librarian, are on sale on all platforms from October 13 to 24. This one-volume set containing all three books is available for less than $1 at https://geni.us/LlytV.
Thank you for reading. Have a happy and healthy Halloween and fall season!
My thriller, Memory Makers, is on sale for 99 cents on Kobo for their Spooky Stories Promotions Week through October 16. Will the clinical trial of a new memory drug help Lauren recall the face of the man who killed her sister twenty-five years ago and haunts her dreams as the “shadow man?”
The three books in my Buttercup Bend cozy mystery series, The Case of the Cat Crazy Lady, The Case of the Parrot Loving Professor, and The Case of the Llama Raising Librarian, are on sale on all platforms from October 13 to 24. This one-volume set containing all three books is available for less than $1 at https://geni.us/LlytV
Have a safe and healthy Halloween!
I’m proud to announce the release of my 2nd Buttercup Bend cozy mystery, The Case of the Parrot Loving Professor. In this new mystery, Cathy Carter, co-owner of Rainbow Gardens Pet Cemetery and Rainbow Rescues animal rescue center who has recently returned to college, investigates the murder of her professor while preparing for her 27th birthday and a 1970’s costume dance.
I think you’ll enjoy learning more about the characters introduced in The Case of the Cat Crazy Lady, Buttercup Bend #1. I’m also excited to introduce my own cats, Harry and Hermione, into the series as kittens and pay tribute to my Stripey who passed away in May.
BLURB
Cathy Carter knew that returning to college would be tough, but she never expected it would involve finding her anthropology professor’s dead body.
There are no shortages of suspects in Dr. Bodkin’s murder. Besides his three ex-wives and estranged son and daughter, there are also the members of the Talking Parrots Club, a group of four parrot enthusiasts, of which he was the president and founder.
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