Our feline reviewers are taking Sunday off to do some snooping and crime solving in the garden. There are moles involved and not the kind in spy novels.
I suspect it has something to do with not being paid for their services. Isn’t caviar cake sufficient payment? Merlin is not amused.
If you like cats who help solve crimes in books of a noirish nature, Cats Can’t Shoot by Clea Simon might be up your alley. Pru Marlowe is a psychic animal behaviorist by day and unwitting crime solver by night with help from her droll but insightful cat Wallis. The prolific Ms. Simon’s voice and pacing is more than a nod to Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe Philip Marlowe.
When a wealthy man is killed, the #1 suspect ( literally with a smoking gun) is his Persian cat but cats can’t shoot or can they? Ballsy Pru who is chummy with the local police, helps unravel whether the death was an accident or murder most foul. Truth be told, I’m not a huge fan of this genre but having cats who talk to animal communicators is enough of a selling point for me.
If you’d like to win a copy of Cats Can’t Shoot, simply leave a comment any time until midnight Oct 27. The winner will be announced next Sunday when we have an extra special treat in store.
Visit the Clea Simon at her website CleasSimon.com
Cats Can’t Shoot (Hardcover)
250 pages. Published in 2012 by Poisoned Pen Press
Cat Wisdom 101 Rating : 3 Paws
Okay, everyone resume your Sunday snooze locations or you’re welcome to join Domino in a game of “I spy” under the bushes.
We’d love to win!
This looks super fun!
Thanks for offering another cool giveaway Layla. This book sounds intriguing. I too am not a big fan of mysteries but this one looks good since a cat is the main character of the book. I wonder now if cats can shoot. I would love to read this book and find out for sure.
Sounds like a great read! Please enter me in the drawing.
Judi Daly recently posted…Frustration
We’ve never read a cat mystery, but would like to try. Thanks Layla!
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That sure sounds like a fun read. We’d love to be entered for a chance to win!
Thanks, sweet pals!
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Glad we found each other via Austin! And what a neat deal, we’d love to win the book
Coccolino might not appreciate it but our kitties sure would.
Oink oink,
Katie and Coccolino the mini pig
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It sounds Purrfectly delightful! I can’t wait to purruse it!
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Any book with a cat in it is my kind of book.
I would love to win this book. It sounds right up my ally.
I always love a good cat mystery!
::perk perk:: Book! Book!! YES!! We would love to win this!! Mom has over 3,000+ SF/F books and then there’s the mystery books and the kids books and the medieval books and the non-fiction books and the cat books and the….
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Put my hat in the ring to win this please! I love to escape into this kind of book. I’m glad Cleo left a comment, I bookmarked her site so I’ll be able to remember
all the book titles.
I love any book about/with cats and this would be a wonderful addition to my library!!
We thought we’d throw our hat into the ring for the Clea Simon mystery book. Kitties are so smart… I bet they solve the mystery quickly and expose the bad guy(s)!!!
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This sounds like a fun read!
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Not really my genre either, but Merlin’s “no” pic is a hoot
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Thank you so much for giving my “Cats Can’t Shoot” a read! This is Pru’s (and Wallis the tabby’s) second outing, by the way. The first is “Dogs Don’t Lie” (although Wallis isn’t sure about that). The third, “Parrots Prove Deadly,” will be out this spring. You can read excerpts of the first two (and my other kitty-centric mysteries) on my website at http://www.cleasimon.com
Thanks!
Hi Clea, thanks for stopping by. I have read Dogs Don’t Lie and look forward to the third the series. Wallis is my kind of cat!
Mom loves books where the cat helps to solve the crime. Mi-Mi and I would love to give this to her for her birthday/Christmas present.
Please sign us up for the drawing…
Purrs and mews,
BoBo and Mi-Mi
Denise recently posted…Weekend Wind Down
Heck sign us up! Our momma would love to read it and then pass it on to her momma who likes mysteries too!
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I love to read. “Cats Can’t Shoot,” would be a good next book.
This is one for the cats and me! Tis definitely “hunting” season at our house too,some days the body count is pretty high. Happy Purrs to all Skeeter and Izzy >^@@^<
That sounds like it’s right up my alley cat too!
Gosh, that book sounds like it’s right up my alley! Sam wishes he could join your boys in the garden for some fun….moles, voles, chipmunks…they’re all “fair game” !!! Tee Hee
Happy sunday,
Pam (and Sam)
Love books like this. And with a cat helping that is even better. I would love to win. Thanks for the giveaway.
This series is wonderful – a must read for lovers of cat fiction and cozy mysteries!
Would luv to win
My human and I would LOVE a copy of this!
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Would love to win this!
Koko and Yum Yum and Midnight Louis seem th have started something.
I would love to win this for my dad for Christmas….thank you so much!