Please Do Feed the Cat

A Mystery

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....

©2004, 2019 Marian Babson (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Bad diet

Nice follow up to first book. Would recommend the series so far. Looking forward to next installment.

the narrator was

this is a cute story and Helen Lloyd brought it to life thanks for sharing it

Enjoyed

It was funny as well as keeping you interested in the story I have heard better though.

fun story

I searched up books by Blackstone Publishing because they are usually really clean and benign, so I ended up with this one. I was a little disappointed that it does have some mild swearing, and mention of sex. However, it's more pushback from the fictional writers on not wanting to put sex in their stories. One man does a collaboration book and is appalled by the sex scenes in the book from the other writer. None of these are discussed. So, nothing crossed that line for me. It stayed appropriate while also expressing pushback against all of the trend towards that.

Nice diverse dynamic of adult friends that are all mystery writers and have their tight knit friend group. They highly spoil and respect their pets. It's cute.

The banter is the best part of the book

The relationship between The three main characters is the best. Especially in this book. Machos drama is hilarious. I enjoy that the whole book isn’t a whodunnit but getting to know the characters before anyone is murdered.

The narration is really well with the main characters but there are a lot of them to recall and they tend to get lost in the conversations, but the main characters are great. Best of all the book is great without sex and swearing. That takes far more talent than to be a shock writer! Hope to see these three and the cats soon.