Felonious Felines

by Nancy Pickard (Editor / Contributor), Nancy Pickard (Contributor), Peter Schweighofer (Contributor)

A wonderful short story collection starring the husband and wife team's favorite creatures-cats. Including an introduction written by Ed Gorman, this collection includes stories by Nancy Pickar, Carole Nelson Douglas, Wendi Lee, Mat Coward, and Joan Hess. Nine of the stories have never been published before.

175 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2000

About the author

Nancy Pickard is an American crime novelist. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and began writing at age 35.

She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. Her novel The Virgin of Small Plains, published in 2007, won an Agatha Award. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America.

Reviews

[Lucy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of short stories involving cats is good, bad, and indifferent, as are most collections. The title is erroneous though because it implies that the cats do the crime, whereas in most they solve it. Sometime murder, sometimes theft. Usually collections lead up to the best stories. In this case the last 2 are not worth reading in my opinion. The one set in Maggody, Arkansas tells me to stay away from that series.
Oddly, one of the stories ends with lines that could come from today's headlines: "I only wanted the best for my son. Only the best. I was just being a good father. My boy deserves nothing but the best."

[Maurean · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of twelve short stories, all by different authors.