A Troubling Tail (A Bookmobile Cat Mystery Book 11) by Laurie Cass

367 pages August 01,2023 publication date Berkley publisher

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About The Book

When the owner of a local candy store is murdered, librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, prepare to find the sweet spot to solve a crime.

The charming town of Chilson, Michigan, is beautiful in the spring, and the bookmobile is delivering great reads far and wide on one of the first warm days of the year. But a chill sweeps through when they discover that one of their favorite patrons, the owner of Henika’s Candy Emporium, has been found murdered. Although Minnie can’t understand who could have had a motive to murder such a kind man, she decides that the sticky problem isn’t hers to solve.

However, when rumors start flying around town and the police have no leads, Minnie decides to throw her investigative hat into the ring. The more Minnie investigates, the less certain she is that the victim’s past is as wholesome as his reputation. But Minnie has plenty of experience unearthing inconvenient truths, and she and Eddie won’t rest until they determine how the victim met his bitter end.

My Thoughts

I was so excited to see a new book in one of my favorite cozy mystery series, this is number 11 in the Bookmobile Cat series. If you love cozies, bookmobiles, libraries and cats this one is perfect for you.

A kindly older gentleman, owner of a candy shop in Chilson, Michigan is murdered. The police don’t seem to be solving it quickly enough so Bookmobile driver and librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, are once again on the case of another murder.

Giving his meow of approval or disapproval Eddie isn’t just the cutest library cat for children to cuddle he’s there in the middle of it all. The series is consistently interesting with its twists and turns and red herrings thrown in.

I was easily pulled into the story and could visualize it well. The characters are easy to follow and likable. Minnie and her fiancée don’t seem to be in a hurry to plan their wedding but I’m hoping we’ll see that in the next book.

Pub Date 01 Aug 2023
I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.

About The Author

Laurie Cass grew up in Michigan and graduated from college in the 80’s with a (mostly unused) degree in geology. She turned to writing in the late nineties. After a number of years in management, she felt the need to move on and took a job with fewer responsibilities. A month later, she was dead bored and began to consider writing as a way to wake up her brain. She started reading a lot of books on writing and happened across a particular sentence: “What’s it going to be, reasons or results?”

The phrase practically stuck her in the eye. She printed it out, framed it, and put it next to her computer. “Reasons or results?” At the end of her life, was she going to have a pile of reasons for not having done anything? Or was she going to sit down and write a book? Once she started looking at it that way, the decision was easy. A short 13 years later, her first book was published.

Currently, Laurie and her husband share their house with two cats, the inestimable Eddie and the adorably cute Sinii. When Laurie isn’t writing, she’s working at her day job, reading, attempting to keep the flowerbeds free of weeds, or doing some variety of skiing. She also writes the PTA Mysteries under the name Laura Alden.

Have you read this author yet? What are your favorite types of cozy mysteries to read?

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