Cat Got Your Secrets
Lacy Crocker has settled into a routine with her business and her social life in New Orleans. Her business, Furry Godmother, is a pet boutique and organic treat bakery that caters to all animals and is booming. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, she’s busier than ever. She is also helping her mother organize the upcoming National Pet Pageant.
When delivering an order of dreidel-shaped doggy biscuits for a Saint Berdoodle’s bark-mitzvah, Lacy stumbles onto a murder scene. Unfortunately, the last person to talk to the victim alive was her father.
It’s up to Lacy to clear her father’s name from the suspect list before Detective Jack Oliver decides to arrest him. Things aren’t as simple as she thinks they should be when she starts receiving threatening letters from a blackmailer. Threat aside, Lacy doesn’t know when to stop.
Series: A Kitty Couture Mystery – Book #3
Author: Julie Chase
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Rating:
The third addition to the Kitty Couture mystery series, Cat Got Your Secrets, is a fun and entertaining read. The character of Lacy is interesting even though a bit immature at times. However, this helps the reader understand the gravity of the situations Lacy gets herself involved in, which her friends and family are continuously trying to prevent her from getting hurt by.
The character of Jack Oliver is a wonderful romantic lead and is clearly the sole love interest for Lacy. Chase is great, but he is too far into the friend zone to be a real love interest. It will be interesting to learn how this plays out in future additions to the series. Will Lacy grow up and accept that Jack is the only man for her?
Lacy’s mother and father are parents who care deeply about their daughter and also their community. They may not be perfect, but they try to do the best they can under the difficult circumstances Lacy puts them into. It would be great if Imogene played a bigger role, and the hints of otherworldly inferences could be made a little more prominent. This will be interesting to see if this happens in future books in the series.
Of course, the story is filled with animals of all types, cats, dogs, llamas, and more, as well as their eccentric owners. Each of the animals and owners is a welcome addition to the story and the plot.
The setting of New Orleans is portrayed vividly. If the reader closes their eyes, they can almost smell the Cajun food cooking, hear the music of the bayou, and feel the sticky heat on a humid day. For anyone who has ever paid a visit to this historical and busy community, they will have a sense of going back in time. For those who haven’t visited New Orleans, they will want to spend some time there.
Ms. Chase writes an easy to read, entertaining, and soul-filled story of murder, relationships, and ultimately, home and family. The plot is easy to follow if a little disjointed at times. The reader is never led so far down another path that they forget which direction the story is going.
Cat Got Your Secrets is highly recommended. Love of animals, food, and family will draw the reader in without ever having to read the first two books. It is hoped that this series continues for many more books to come.
About the Author
Julie Chase is a mystery-loving pet enthusiast who hopes to make readers smile. She lives in rural Ohio with her husband and three spunky children. Julie is a member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW), Romance Writers of America (RWA), and Sisters in Crime (SinC). Julie also writes as Julie Anne Lindsey.
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