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Fiction for Cat Lovers
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All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SF=science fiction, SS=short story collection, LGE-TYPE=large print collection.
- Allen, Garrison
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(2006)LGE-TYPE MWhen the discovery of a baby Seismosaurus fossil attracts a horde of media vultures to the town of Empty Creek, Arizona, the incredible find is shadowed by an even bigger sensation. A young scientist is murdered at the site sending sometime sleuth Penelope Warren out to the scene with her Abyssinian cat "Big Mike" to help her uncover clues.
- Babson, Marian
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(2007)MSurrounded by a number of eccentric characters, Gloriana the cat tries to sniff out who has harmed her mistress, Vanessa.
- Braun, Lilian Jackson
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(2007)MIn the 29th installment of Braun's Cat Who series, all of Moose County is in an uproar following vast inheritances from wealthy families. Only Koko knows what is happening and he's not telling. Jim Qwilleran thinks it's because he has more whiskers than ordinary cats, but who's counting?
- Brown, Rita Mae
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(2011)MMary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her menagerie of four-footed sleuths sniff out the season's first blossom of murder. An especially promising nurse's lifeless body is discovered without a mark on her. Then another hospital employee, who had seemed in perfect health, is also found dead. The little group digs right in to find the perpetrator.
- Clement, Blaize
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(2010)MIn this fifth installment of the popular Dixie Hemingway mystery series, a young girl is missing. Lieutenant Guidry, the detective with whom Dixie has an on-again, off-again relationship, is trying to find the girl because she may be a material witness.
- Douglas, Carole Nelson
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(2010)MTemple Barr and her saucy feline take on the legends of the mob in Las Vegas in this latest Midnight Louie mystery.
- Hill, Suzette A.
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(2010)MMore from Maurice, the cat, Bouncer, the dog, and the hapless Reverend Oughterard as they travel to France where the Reverend had inherited a villa.
- Kane, Cornelius
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(2009)MKane brings us an inventive twist on the hard-boiled detective novel featuring a world made up exclusively of cats, dogs, and one ruthless fox.
- Lackey, Mercedes
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(2007)In 1910, in an alternate London, a penniless young dancer is visited by a cat who communicates with her, mind to mind. Though she is certain she must be going mad, she is desperate enough to follow the cat's advice to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina.
- McCaffrey, Anne
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(2010)SFFrom the team of McCaffrey and Nebula Award-winning author Scarborough comes the second installment in the Barque Cats series featuring telepathic cats which are invaluable to the spacefarers who own them.
- Miller, Jeffrey
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(2007)MProfessor Mack Herskowitz teaches his classes like a drill sergeant and runs his highly controversial Institute for the Wrongfully Acquitted Criminal, or IWHACK, like his own banana republic. When Herskowitz's mouthiest critic, first-year law student Tony Albinoni, is poisoned in the professor's penthouse, Amicus Q. C. (Questing Cat) and his companion human take on their most mind-bending case yet.
- Morris, Gilbert
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(2007)MIn this third installment of Morris' series featuring feline detectives Jacques and Cleo, Mary Katherine Forrest is delighted when an international cat show comes to White Sands, Alabama. Her neighbor, Jake Novak, is disgusted at all the feline fawning, but when the favored contestant disapppears, Jake is hired to capture the catnapper with Jacques and Cleo's help
- Murphy, Shirley Rousseau
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(2010)MWith a story both enchanting and suspenseful, Murphy shows once again why her trio of feline sleuths are so beloved by her fans, and why the Joe Grey mysteries should be at the top of every cat lover's gift list.
- Murray, Melanie
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(2005)Just when actress-in-waiting Stella Monroe thought things couldn't get any worse, her uncannily intelligent cat, Miss Bubbles, makes it to Broadway before she does and becomes quite the little diva.
- Simon, Clea
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(2009)MIn the fourth installment of the Theda Krakow mysteries Theda, a Boston reporter, must uncover who is behind some feline poisonings at the animal shelter before her own furry friend becomes the next victim.
- Simon, Clea
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(2009)MSimon begins a brand new mystery series featuring Dulcie Schwartz, a Harvard doctoral student. Dulcie is having a really bad summer. Her beloved cat, Mr. Grey had been put to sleep and her new room-mate, Tim is a jerk. Walking home she sees a cat who is the spitting image of Mr. Grey and hears a voice telling her that it would not be a good idea to go in right now. She does go in anyway and finds Tim stabbed with her own knife. Dulcie is being framed for murder and she hasn't seen the last of Mr. Grey either...
- Smith, Nick
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(2005)MIn the style of Raymond Chandler, this is hard-boiled detective fiction set in the city of Nub, where cats are king, killer and killed. Tiger Straight, PI, is past his prime, homeless and unemployed until Connie Hant shows up. The PI is back, pawing the mean streets of Nub that he knows so well. His mission is to catch the killers of Connie's brothers.
- Travis, John
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(2010)MTravis' mystery actually straddles several genres including horror, science fiction and noir fiction with some humor thrown in to lighten the mood. In England, the roles of pets and their humans have been reversed. The animals can speak, have grown very tall, and have taken on the professions of their owners. Benji, the tortoiseshell cat, now has two legs, is six feet tall, and wears a suit. He becomes Benji Spriteman, Detective.
