Followers of cat author Mollie Hunt’s cozy cat mysteries are enthusiastic about her upcoming instalment of the Tenth Life sequence publishing Might 30, 2024. After her profitable Loopy Cat Woman cozy mysteries, Hunt’s new sequence takes a magical twist with a ghost cat character. Don’t we cat lovers want our kitties might reside ceaselessly? In Ghost Cat on the Thriller Resort, a few of them do!
The Tenth Life cozy thriller sequence options septuagenarian Camelia Collins and her ghost cat companion Soji. Camelia has fulfilled her lifelong dream of shifting to the Oregon Coast, however her little cottage got here with a shock. In the back of her backyard lies the traditional headstone of a cat named Soji, and now Soji’s ghost needs to play!
Ghost Cat on the Thriller Resort is the third ebook within the sequence.
From the again cowl:
When Camelia Collins meets an outdated school good friend for a homicide thriller weekend on the coast, demise turns into greater than a sport. Accompanied by her ghost cat companion Soji, Camelia begins to find clues that aren’t a part of the role-playing storyline. A lurking stranger, a vengeful spirit, a real assassin roaming the halls. Will Camelia’s senses and Soji’s wiles be sufficient to catch the killer earlier than they kill once more?
Right here is an excerpt:
Penelope stared, her face tight with shock. “
Penelope stared, her face tight with shock. “However… it’s gone!”
Dr. Lance took her elbow to regular her. “What’s gone?”
“The physique, you foolish man! It was proper there.” Penelope pointed to a leather-based wingback chair, the one the place Camelia had briefly seen the phantom.
“Hey,” Octavia demanded. “What are you attempting to tug right here, Penelope?”
“What do you imply it’s gone?” Millie furthered. “The place might it go?”
“Maybe they weren’t useless in any respect,” Sage supplied optimistically, “and also you simply thought they had been.”
The huddle on the door started speaking directly.
“Perhaps they had been solely wounded and managed to crawl away…”
“Wounded? If somebody had been wounded, there could be blood. I don’t see any blood…”
“I don’t see something in any respect. I’m going again downstairs to complete my cocktail…”
Camelia ignored the protestations. She was starting to get a humorous feeling, a sense she’d skilled many instances earlier than. As her eyes roamed the chamber, they lastly landed on the factor she was searching for.
Soji was there in spite of everything, or perhaps she had gone and are available again, coming back from a quick spin within the ether. At any charge, Camelia now noticed her clearly. She was in her stable kind, brief black fur and emerald-green eyes, sitting loaflike on the mantelpiece.
Gazing Camelia with unabashed amusement, the ghost cat hopped right down to the big oak writing desk after which onto the chair in query. Fastidiously avoiding the seat itself, she jumped as a substitute onto the chair again the place she settled on the lace antimacassar. Giving Camelia a gradual, ponderous blink, she stated, “Extinguish the sunshine.”
“What?” Camelia exclaimed, forgetting for a second solely she might see or hear the little black spirit.
“What what?” requested Beth.
“Extinguish the sunshine,” Soji repeated.
“Flip off the sunshine,” Camelia relayed to Beth. “Please, simply do it.”
Beth seemed confused however did as she was bid. Stepping to the wall, she glanced again at Camelia who nodded. With a flick of the swap, the room was plunged into darkness. Now, throughout the gloom, Camelia might see clearly what she had solely glimpsed earlier than.
Within the huge chair sat a lady wearing an extended skirt and a jacket, the colours of which oscillated like a rainbow seen via a sprinkler. Her clean face was so pale and glass-like as to replicate the wavering hues. Although her eyes had been open, black orbs in opposition to the mists of her visage, no life glimmered from inside.
Soji transmuted to her spirit kind and flowed down into the lady’s lap. With the ghost cat’s contact, the lady’s face lit, her empty expression morphing into that of a puzzled however regular younger lady.
Assist me, she mouthed to Camelia. Although no sound accompanied the shifting lips, Camelia understood.
“Allow you to?” Camelia whispered again. “How?”
The ghost lady stared at Camelia a second longer, then slipped her filmy gaze previous Camelia into the hallway and past. Her face cleared, and he or she gave the sweetest of smiles.
I see, she intoned with a nod of her fairly head. Justice has already been served.
The ghost started to flicker and fade, and shortly she was little greater than a hint. Then she was gone, leaving solely Soji curled up on the leather-based cushion. In one other second, Soji winked out as nicely, and Camelia was gazing nothing however the darkish.
Mollie Hunt is a devoted cat individual herself. Moreover writing cat fiction, she is a longtime volunteer on the Oregon Humane Society. She and her cat Tinkerbelle visited hospice sufferers and assisted residing amenities via the Pet Associate Program till Tink’s retirement. She has taken cat-centric courses in first assist and CPR, cat habits, cat agility, and the ever-annoying litter field points. In 2014, she labored with superstar cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy on the a lot publicized Portland case of Lux the 911 Cat.
Hunt’s cat writing has earned varied honors, together with CWA Muse Medallions and World’s Finest Litter-ary Awards. She is the recipient of the distinguished Michael Brim Distinguished Service Award (CWA) and the Catalyst Council Hook up with Care Award, celebrating a real story of the profound connection between a shelter cat and its adoptive pet mum or dad. Her ebook, Cat’s Paw, was a CIBA Thriller & Mayhem Semi-finalist.
Mollie Hunt is a member of Sisters in Crime and Willamette Writers, in addition to being on the board of the Oregon Writers Colony and Northwest Impartial Writers Affiliation (NIWA). She can be the librarian for the Cat Writers’ Affiliation. She lives in Portland, Oregon together with her husband and a various variety of cats.