I'm pleased to welcome Lynley Cannon to Cozy Up With Kathy today. You can find Lynley on the pages of the The Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mystery series by Mollie Hunt. Crafty Cat is the eleventh book in the series.
What can I say? Crafty Cat is the eleventh story my author has written about me. In each one, she chronicles some kerfuffle I’ve got myself into—kerfuffle meaning murder. It just doesn’t seem possible. Here I am, a quiet, sixty-something woman who lives alone in an old Victorian home in Portland, Oregon with nine cats. Yes, nine. I know it’s a lot, but they are all well-cared-for, happy, and healthy. Without them, I would surely get into even more trouble.
Trouble seems to be my catnip. Curious by nature, I can’t resist a puzzle. It sounds like more fun than it is, however. Murder is a serious business, and when it happens, it hurts everyone around it. I suppose that’s why I’m so willing to step in and help. I don’t want people to be sad or scared. I don’t want guilty parties to go free or possibly commit their desperate crimes again.
If I can aid in unraveling a mystery, I must do it. It’s my duty as a human being, and I’m good at it, despite the fact I’ve had no formal training. Even the head of the Portland Police Homicide Division appreciates my input now and then. I have a nose for crime, and like one of my cats, I’ve become reasonably proficient in sniffing it out.
Unfortunately my amateur sleuthing sometimes backfires, and then I’m the one in trouble. I just don’t see it coming, like when I joined a quilt guild that made quilts for cat charity fundraisers. I had no idea such a good project would lead to danger. Everyone seemed so nice. Even after the tragedy of a murder in the family, I couldn’t conceive of the quilters, their neighbors, or their friends as being involved. My kitty-sense didn’t kick in until it was too late, and I found myself on the receiving end of the murderer’s wrath. Funny thing was I’d never suspected them—a few others had got me wondering, but never them.
Will I continue working with the quilt guild? It’s a worthy cause, and anything that can help cat shelters raise their much-needed funds is good with me. But will it be too much of a reminder of how close I came to my own death? Maybe I’ll turn my attention to something else while I recover. I hear a friend is starting up a shelter for senior cats. I love old cats, and my skills would fit in perfectly. What could possibly go wrong?
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Crafty Cat (Crazy Cat Lady Mystery) by Mollie Hunt
About Crafty Cat
Cozy Mystery 11th in the Series
Setting - Oregon
Publisher: Independently Published (October 29, 2024)
Paperback: 265 pages
Romance, death, and cat quilts. What does quilting have to do with murder? Lynley Cannon is about to find out.
Lynley Cannon has a new hobby—making cat-themed quilt donations for the ShadowCat Rescue auction. The small quilting guild is run by three generations of women and two cats, but when the elder of the family is murdered, Lynley’s job shifts from crafting to sleuthing.
Who would want to kill such a dear old thing? The police think they know, but they don’t have all the facts.
As secrets come out and a romance is uncovered, the quilting project begins to fall to pieces. Lynley jumps in to help the family navigate the justice system, but when a neighbor is found dead and another of the quilt shop’s owners missing, even Lynley is at a loss. It takes a couple of crafty cats to get to the bottom of this stranger-than-fiction crime.
About Mollie Hunt
Cat Writer Mollie Hunt is the award-winning author of two cozy series: the Crazy Cat Lady Mysteries featuring a sixty-something cat shelter volunteer who finds more trouble than a cat in catnip, and the Tenth Life Paranormal Mysteries involving a ghost cat. Her Cat Seasons Sci-Fantasy Tetralogy presents extraordinary cats saving the world. She recently released a COVID memoir which she calls, "a tale of a plague and politics, of depression and inspiration, and an ode to the very real and healing presence of cats." In her spare time, she pens a bit of cat poetry.
Mollie is a member of the Oregon Writers’ Colony, Sisters in Crime, the Cat Writers’ Association, Willamette Writers, and Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA). She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and a varying number of cats. Like her cat lady character, she is a grateful shelter volunteer
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I love reading cozy mysteries.
ReplyDeleteMe too! And I love writing them!
DeleteA delightful and special cozy mystery that is a real treasure.
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DeleteThanks, Kathy, for featuring my new cozy mystery Crafty Cat on your blogsite! (And for letting Lynley voice her opinions)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by!
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