A Familiar Tail

Witch’s Cat Mystery Series, Book 1

By: Delia James

Narrated by: Elise Arsenault

Unlucky-in-love artist Annabelle Britton decides that a visit to the seaside town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is the perfect way to get over her problems. But when she stumbles upon a smoky gray cat named Alastair, and follows him into a charming cottage, Annabelle finds herself in a whole spellbook full of trouble. Suddenly saddled with a witch's wand and a furry familiar, Annabelle soon meets a friendly group of women who use their spells, charms, and potions to keep the people of Portsmouth safe. But despite their gifts, the witches can't prevent every wicked deed in town.

Soon, the mystery surrounding Alistair's former owner, who died under unusual circumstances, grows when another local turns up dead. Armed with magic, friends, and the charmed cat who adopted her more than the other way around, Annabelle sets out to paw through the evidence and uncover a killer.

©2016 Penguin Random House LLC (P)2017 Tantor

Critic reviews

"A special brew of magic, murder, mayhem...and one extraordinary cat." (Laurie Cass, best-selling author)

Great Story

Super story, well narrated and fun to listen to. Engrossing and holds your attention. Great. an hardly wait to start next in series.

This was a fun read!

It has a compelling mystery, magic, interesting characters, and of course, an adorable cat familiar.

Great!

Really good book! Storyline was terrific. I couldn’t stop listening because I wanted to find out what was going to happen. The narrator would’ve been 5 stars if she wouldn’t have kept saying words like “impor-dant” for important and “cur-dan” for curtain. (Her T’s were always D’s at the end of a word.) This was throughout the whole book and it was distracting to me.
Can’t wait to start the next book in the series!

A cozy witchy mystery

This book is a cozy and a perfect fall time read. Witches, a cozy cottage, a feline familiar that you wish you had, and a who done it with low stakes. Wonderful storytelling and narration. I’m intrigued to read the other two in this series.

Great book

I really enjoyed this book. It has it all murder, mystery and mayhem. The narrator did a really good job performing this story.