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Alice Nestleton Mystery #20
Cat Named Brat, A
In this brand-new mystery from the author of A Cat with No Clue, New York actress and cat-sitting sleuth Alice Nestleton sets out to solve the murder of a nightlife journalist.
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First published July 1, 2002
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Lydia Adamson
53 books46 followersLydia Adamson is the pen name for Franklin B. King who is an author, free-lance writer and copywriter. In addition to the Alice Nestleton series, he is the author of the Deirdre Quinn Nightingale and Lucy Wayles series. He lives in New York City and also wrote under the name 'Frank King'.
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January 5, 2020
This is a cute little cozy mystery with a cat. The cat isn't the sleuth. That role is held by a New York actress temporarily between parts who takes a job catsitting for a guide book author. Things don't go so well. The author is killed and the cat is missing.
I wasn't that impressed with the sleuthing of our actress. She seemed to me to fall over and into clues. I know that is part of the charm of the cozy, our sleuth is an amateur. Otherwise, we'd have a private eye mystery and that is a different thing. still, the clues and the other people and the solution did satisfy me. If you're looking for a mystery to read on a rainy afternoon, this book will work nicely.
I wasn't that impressed with the sleuthing of our actress. She seemed to me to fall over and into clues. I know that is part of the charm of the cozy, our sleuth is an amateur. Otherwise, we'd have a private eye mystery and that is a different thing. still, the clues and the other people and the solution did satisfy me. If you're looking for a mystery to read on a rainy afternoon, this book will work nicely.
March 6, 2008
***This review is for the abridged cd edition of this book, ISBN 0-7927-2645-6.***
Hated it. Seriously hated it. The narrator (Deborah Hall) read the book in the most pretentious and condescending tone throughout. At the end of the 2nd cd (of 4), I quit listening.
I really wanted to like this book because if I pictured the words in my head when I was listening I could tell that it could be a decent, if not entertaining, book.
I'll give the author another chance in the future but I will definitely put the narrator's name at the top of my "avoid at all costs" list.
Don't skip the print version based on this review - just beware and don't get the audio version, ESPECIALLY if you're going to be stuck with it on a long car trip.
Hated it. Seriously hated it. The narrator (Deborah Hall) read the book in the most pretentious and condescending tone throughout. At the end of the 2nd cd (of 4), I quit listening.
I really wanted to like this book because if I pictured the words in my head when I was listening I could tell that it could be a decent, if not entertaining, book.
I'll give the author another chance in the future but I will definitely put the narrator's name at the top of my "avoid at all costs" list.
Don't skip the print version based on this review - just beware and don't get the audio version, ESPECIALLY if you're going to be stuck with it on a long car trip.
July 17, 2018
First book I have read in this series and found it rather silly. However, it was a fast read with an improbable plot and solution. I did like the fact that the cats were really cats. There were no detective cats with whiskers that reveal the killer or any cat that talks. That, alone, gave the book 3 stars.
February 28, 2018
Brat disappears after two murders. Brat is one of the rare extra toed cats, and legend.
September 30, 2019
Breezy quick read!
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October 12, 2021If you like cats and you like mysteries then this series is for you.
June 10, 2017
I enjoyed the flow of the story. Twists and turns in the plot kept it interesting.
May 5, 2014
Quirky. Odd. Maybe strange. All of Lydia Adamson's books fit this. She has two series. One is the Alice Nestleton mysteries. The other is about Dr. Nightingale, a veterinarian. But they are fun to read.
Alice Nestleton is in her forties. She is a theater actress/cat sitter. She never seems to really work in any of the novels so I wonder how she pays the bills. There are times she makes me think of hippies. Her two cats are as strange as she is.
Alice's friends are as unusual as she is.
The books take place in New York City.
In this one Alice is hired to cat sit except there is no cat. There is a murderer who bashes her on the head then murders her employer.
The key is the nonexistent cat. Or is it nonexistent? Is Brat really the key to the murders of Alice's employer and his friend?
Follow Alice through the Bowery with her friend Sam, a few of the parks and the streets of New York as she tries to solve the mystery ahead of the police officer who is trying to pin it on her.
Alice Nestleton is in her forties. She is a theater actress/cat sitter. She never seems to really work in any of the novels so I wonder how she pays the bills. There are times she makes me think of hippies. Her two cats are as strange as she is.
Alice's friends are as unusual as she is.
The books take place in New York City.
In this one Alice is hired to cat sit except there is no cat. There is a murderer who bashes her on the head then murders her employer.
The key is the nonexistent cat. Or is it nonexistent? Is Brat really the key to the murders of Alice's employer and his friend?
Follow Alice through the Bowery with her friend Sam, a few of the parks and the streets of New York as she tries to solve the mystery ahead of the police officer who is trying to pin it on her.
March 2, 2017
Wow. That is all I have to say….wow. This book was terrible! To be fair, I attempted to complete this book via audio cd. I was driving my normal 45min commute to work while listening. This book was so horrible, I turned it off. I have NEVER turned an audio book off…and that’s saying something, because I have listened to hundreds of audio books! Driving 45min to work each way for over 4 years! That’s A LOT of books.
The narrator was probably the worst part, she was AWFUL! Sounding like she was narrating a spooky book for a child, or a Dick Tracy novel. Not to mention the terrible writing….”We assume he was beaten, tortured, and hanged because he had information.” Wow, what a deduction, very insightful and makes perfect sense.
Plain and simple this book is awful. Don’t try to read it.
The narrator was probably the worst part, she was AWFUL! Sounding like she was narrating a spooky book for a child, or a Dick Tracy novel. Not to mention the terrible writing….”We assume he was beaten, tortured, and hanged because he had information.” Wow, what a deduction, very insightful and makes perfect sense.
Plain and simple this book is awful. Don’t try to read it.
August 3, 2014
Read as an audiobook for the car, and while it had an interesting premise, the main character was just plain annoying and her pursuit of the mystery's solution was tedious. The main reason I listened to the whole thing was that I cared about what happened to the cat in the title (and that was pretty far-fetched too).
February 27, 2011
This one involved a 6 toes cat named Brat who happens to be in the center of an ancient curse about cats and businesses. Alice eventually figures it out.
August 7, 2011
was last audio that i have in the series, next and last is a real book, the reader was diff and story line left alot to be desired!!!!! almost didn't even finish it!!!
May 13, 2012
No way
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January 28, 2014a bit disjointed,, and too many dangling ends , a lack of exposition. I would recommend it for someone with a short attention span.
December 6, 2017
Onvan : A Cat Named Brat (Alice Nestleton Mystery #20) - Nevisande : Lydia Adamson - ISBN : 451206649 - ISBN13 : 9780451206640 - Dar 187 Safhe - Saal e Chap : 2002
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