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Killer Tails: 8 Pawsome Cat & Dog Cozy Mysteries by 8 Bestselling Authors
- GenresMystery
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First published August 18, 2015
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Carole Nelson Douglas
167 books567 followersCarole Nelson Douglas is the author of sixty-four award-winning novels in contemporary and historical mystery/suspense and romance, high and urban fantasy and science fiction genres. She is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian historical suspense series (she was the first woman to spin-off a series from the Holmes stories) and the multi-award-winning alphabetically titled Midnight Louie contemporary mystery series. From Cat in an Alphabet Soup #1 to Cat in an Alphabet Endgame #28.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
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August 28, 2015
8 for 1
Overall I enjoyed reading this collective of cozy mysteries. Five of the books were very good and makes you want to follow those authors. However, three of the selected books were really "not my cup of tea". This collection introduced me to a few authors I had not experienced before, I'm glad I bought this book because it was a good way to be introduced.
Overall I enjoyed reading this collective of cozy mysteries. Five of the books were very good and makes you want to follow those authors. However, three of the selected books were really "not my cup of tea". This collection introduced me to a few authors I had not experienced before, I'm glad I bought this book because it was a good way to be introduced.
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September 8, 20168/30/16 Discovered I had already read several books in here. Jumped in with book 3, Partnerships Can Be Murder. I plan to alternate between these mysteries and the other books in my September tbr file. 9/7/16 Finished Partnerships Can be Murder. It was good.
March 14, 2017
goodreads won't hide things am tired of seeing, don't have time for this crap, should be an easy hide this button or something
April 24, 2016
Since I don't normally write reviews unless I have something specific to say, here's the break down of how I rate my books...
1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid this author like the plague in the future.
2 stars... This book was not very good, and I won't be reading any more from the author.
3 stars... This book was ok, but I won't go out of my way to read more, But if I find another book by the author for under a dollar I'd pick it up.
4 stars... I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be on the look out to pick up more from the series/author.
5 stars... I loved this book! It has earned a permanent home in my collection and I'll be picking up the rest of the series and other books from the author ASAP.
September 23, 2015
A fun read. Several mystery stories featuring cats and/or dogs. Several also featured ghosts or witches. Some were better than others.
The individual books were all fairly short, but since there were 8 of them altogether, the collection as a whole ran a little bit long. However, it moved along quickly. I was a little disappointed that only a couple of them actually gave parts of the story from the animals' perspective, but otherwise an entertaining collection.
The individual books were all fairly short, but since there were 8 of them altogether, the collection as a whole ran a little bit long. However, it moved along quickly. I was a little disappointed that only a couple of them actually gave parts of the story from the animals' perspective, but otherwise an entertaining collection.
August 27, 2015
This strong anthology provides a great opportunity for the reader to meet eight intriguing authors. From Carolyn Haines new Sarah Booth book, temporarily exclusive to this set, to Pamela DuMond's delightful Annie Graceland, there is something for every reader of mystery and every pet lover as well as for those who enjoy a touch of the paranormal. In addition to four authors I already follow, I discovered four new authors that I will be checking out more thoroughly.
October 27, 2015
This colection of eight cozies is ok -- all of the included novels are enjoyable, but none of them are good enough that I'll go out of my way to read more by the included authors.
My only disappointment is in the marketing of this collection; with the exception of the first boook, the animals in the stories are just incidental. They could easily have been edited out without changing the plot lines at all.
My only disappointment is in the marketing of this collection; with the exception of the first boook, the animals in the stories are just incidental. They could easily have been edited out without changing the plot lines at all.
December 22, 2015
Interesting collection of light cozy mysteries which include a cat or dog pet, and sometimes sleuth. I like cozy mysteries and I, personally, enjoy the addition of the pets. Beyond that, there is a variation in the books, some that I enjoyed more than others. There was at least one that I didn't care for and at least one that I really liked. Overall, it was a great way, for me, to find some cozy authors that I had't read before. And there were several authors that are now on my "to read" list.
August 28, 2016
I thought that this collection was going to be stories written from the cat/dog perspective. Not true most of them only had one or the other in the storyline as a pet. All in all, two of the eight were really worth reading.
October 11, 2015
It's fabulous! Of course, I could be a bit biased.
Why don't you read, and you decide?
Why don't you read, and you decide?
March 3, 2016
Cute stories. Awesome bargain.
December 17, 2015
This set of books was entertaining with the pets being the hero. There witches and normal people.
October 13, 2015
Awesome
I loved and laughed so hard. There is something for everyone in this awesome pile of reading. A cup of tea and a beach umbrella and all set enjoy.
I loved and laughed so hard. There is something for everyone in this awesome pile of reading. A cup of tea and a beach umbrella and all set enjoy.
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