Please Do Feed the Cat
3 journalers for this copy...
A decomposing body...a severed head in a closet...a macabre meeting with "Mother"--mystery writer Lorinda Lucas tosses yet another paperback in the trash, appalled at the gruesome direction of today's crime fiction. She's even more disturbed at the half-starved state of Roscoe, the cat next door. Before Lorinda left for her latest book tour, Roscoe was as plump and pampered as her own two felines, Had-I and But-Known. It only takes a modicum of sleuthing to find out that in Lorinda's absence Roscoe's owner, Macho Magee, has acquired a new girlfriend--a harridan who has put the gentle Macho and his pet on a strict diet. And that's only the first disturbing news in Brimful Coffers, the once-quiet village that now includes a writer's colony. Lorinda soon discovers that a hit-and-run has ended a child's life, professional jealousy has taken a deadly twist, and murder is just around the catty-corner...
Journal Entry 2 by Jean-Sol at Redgum Cafe in Templestowe, Victoria Australia on Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Released 1 yr ago (3/2/2023 UTC) at Redgum Cafe in Templestowe, Victoria Australia
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To the monthly meetup and failing that to be left on the bookshelf at the venue.
In this delightful tale, with its undertone of sweetly malicious humour about self-important writers, you can depend on finding actual homicide: it comes complete with a murder as well as a cast of writers as varied as their books. Should be light reading.
Yes, it was light reading and rather silly. I had not read in this series so it took a while to sort out the cats from the people and separate this story from fiction written by the characters. My complaint was that the environment and people were American but eventually it seemed they were supposed to be in England. It was just not correct for me.
Journal Entry 5 by AnonymousFriend at Dingley Village, Victoria Australia on Friday, August 25, 2023
Release #228 for 2023...
More cat books added to the pile.