A Night's Tail by Sofie Kelly

A Night's Tail by Sofie Kelly ISBN-13: 978-0440001133 Hardback: 336 pages Publisher: Berkley Released: September 3, 2019

Source: Review copy from the publisher.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Spring is coming to Mayville Heights, and Kathleen’s brother, Ethan, has arrived in town with his band, The Flaming Gerbils. But not everything goes as scheduled when one of Ethan’s bandmates gets into a fight with a man interested in investing in the town. When the businessman’s body is later found, Ethan’s friend is implicated in the crime.

Kathleen wants to help her brother by solving the case, but she has no shortage of suspects from which to choose. Prior to his death, the investor was fighting like cats and dogs with lots of people. If this librarian wants more than a whisker’s chance of solving the case, she will need to rely on her trusty feline sidekicks, Owen and Hercules.


My Review:
A Night's Tail is a cozy mystery. This is the 11th book in the series. You don't need to read the previous books to understand this one, and this book didn't spoil the mysteries in the previous books. The cats are intelligent and have cat abilities (disappearing and getting out of places) taken to a magical degree. Their actions drew attention to clues but mostly they provided humor with their antics.

It's a clue-based puzzle mystery. The heroine is intelligent and knows how to ask questions without being pushy or accusing. I didn't catch a critical clue at the beginning of the book and so didn't really have any suspects until right before the heroine figured out whodunit and how. The heroine had to dig up information about the victim's past to uncover who had motive.

There was no sex. There was a few uses of bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this fun mystery.


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