Cozy Up With Kathy: Ghost Cat on the Midway

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Ghost Cat on the Midway - A Guest Post & Giveaway

I'm happy to let Camelia Collinstake over Cozy Up With Kathy today. You can find Camelia on the pages of the Tenth Life Cozy Mystery series by Mollie Hunt. The Ghost Cat on the Midway is the second book in the series and was released earlier this year.

I already know the first question you’ll ask me: What makes a seventy-year-old widow pick up and move from her city home of many years to a cottage on the Oregon Coast where she knows not a single soul? And I will answer, as I always do: If not now, when?

It had been my dream since I was a little girl and spent summers with my mommy and daddy searching for seashells and dancing in the surf. I wondered when I finally made the move decades later if it would live up to my expectations, but much to my relief, it did, and more.

I’ll admit it took a little getting used to. The quiet, for one. After so many years tuning out the roar and buzz of Portland, the soft pounding of the sea, punctuated only by a gull’s cry, was different to say the least. And the air—to breathe in the fresh salt air was a joy I could barely comprehend.

Then there were the people. Though I’d been a bit concerned about the fact I knew no one in the community, I needn’t have worried. It took less than twenty-four hours before I was invited into a group that soon became friends. Now I couldn’t imagine being without them. Vera, my elderly yet flamboyant neighbor; Ellery, an artist with an eye out for me; the Smiths and their rebellious teenage daughter Yui. And so on. But there’s one entity I hadn’t counted on, could never have imagined in a million years—Soji.

I love cats. My companion Blaze, a senior tuxie, has been with me for years. There were cats before him and will be more in time, I’m sure. But Soji is another matter. She came with the beach house. And she is a ghost.

Yes, Soji is a ghost, but I don’t know what I would have done without her. There was this murder, you see. No, I wasn’t involved, at least I shouldn’t have been. I barely knew the woman, a keeper of an aging tiger at the Cove County Fair. I’d only met her and her tiger the day before she was killed. I had no idea who had done it or why. It was a job for the police, and that should have been the end of it.

But Soji thought differently. She had befriended her fellow feline, the tiger, and wasn’t about to let her keeper’s murder go unavenged. Suddenly I found myself embroiled in a web of plots and plans involving a violent animal activist’s group, and once in, I wasn’t sure how to get out. It looked like I might be next on the killer’s list. What Soji did next surprised us all.

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Ghost Cat on the Midway (A Tenth Life Cozy Mystery) by Mollie Hunt

About Ghost Cat on the Midway

Ghost Cat on the Midway (A Tenth Life Cozy Mystery)
2nd in Series
Independently Published (August 29, 2022)
Print length: ‎ 195 pages

This summer, there’s trouble brewing at the Cove County Fair.
Camelia Collins, Ocean Cove’s most recent resident over seventy years of age, is all set to go to the fair! The smell of the popcorn, the roar of the crowd, the Ferris wheel and the pony shows—things she remembers from childhood and looks forward to experiencing again.
But something’s up at the Cove County Fair. When Camelia meets the keeper of a rescued tiger, she could not have predicted that keeper would soon be dead and the tiger gone missing. A rogue band of aggressive animal activists seems the obvious culprits, but they deny the act.
Only one entity knows the truth—the ghost cat Soji, but will the capricious spirit decide to come forward before someone else dies?

About Mollie Hunt

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 pens a bit of cat poetry.

Mollie is a member of the Oregon Writers’ Colony, Sisters in Crime, the Cat Writers’ Association, and Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA). She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and a varying number of cats.

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