Curiosity Thrilled the Cat: A Magical Cats Mystery
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Curiosity Thrilled the Cat: A Magical Cats Mystery Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two strays would nuzzle their way into her life. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a stocky tuxedo cat who shares Kathleen's fondness for Barry Manilow. But beyond all the fur and purrs, there's something more to these felines.

When murder interrupts Mayville's Music Festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect. More stunning is her realization that Owen and Hercules are magical - and she's relying on their skills to solve a purr-fect murder.

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Listening Length 10 hours and 28 minutes
Author Sofie Kelly
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date June 10, 2014
Publisher Random House Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B00K56XXQ2
Best Sellers Rank #56,331 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#78 in Animal Cozy Mysteries
#513 in Amateur Sleuth Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals)
#1,610 in Women Sleuth Mysteries

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Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2011
Easton gave me a practiced celebrity-greeting the-little-people smile. Unpack one of those computers just for him? When pigs fly, I thought. Unfortunately, it wasn't a pig that suddenly launched itself onto the conductor's head. It was a cat.My cat. Owen. For a moment Owen perched on top of Easton's head, tail twitching, like some sort of kitty Davy Crockett hat. Before any of us could move, he leaped over to the top of one of the bookshelves, shook himself and gave us a wide-eyed stare. What was he doing at the library? How the heck had he gotten into my bag without my noticing?~~~

Curiosity Thrilled
The Cat

A Magical Cats Mystery
First in Series
"Something Whiskered This Way Comes..."

By Sofie Kelly

Hello! My name is Owen and I'm one of the two main characters in this book! I'm the one that...disappears...

Actually, I think I was asked to tell the story about the murder because I set up the storyline, sort of... You see, I jumped and appeared on the head of Gregor Easton. No, it wasn't a head statue, it was the real guy, who just happened to be criticizing my Mom at the time! I had to do something, didn't I?

Mom had been hired to become the head librarian and oversee a major renovation to The Mayville Heights Free Public Library. It was almost done but the contractor seemed to be taking sooooo long. And that had caused Gregor Easton, a well-known composer and conductor who was guest artist for the Wild Rose Summer Music Festival, to be frustrated because no internet access, as promised in the new brochure, was yet available!

Although things became calm and Easton finally left, Mom was concerned enough to get up early the next day and go to find an independent contractor, Oren, to ask for his help in getting the computer tables put together and try to move the renovation along while the main contractor handled the power. She knew Oren worked mornings at the Stratton Theatre. But she couldn't find Oren right away and started looking. She found, instead, Gregor Easton...He was dead!

Worse, a note was later found that indicated that Mom had invited Gregor to meet her at the Library, where the police found other clues that revealed that he had probably been killed there!

Mom was in bigggg trouble, so Herc and I knew we had to help. We took turns guarding Mom because she decided she was going to try to find out what was really going on since she knew she was a suspect! But while we were doing it, Mom caught on to our secrets big-time! We were busted! But Hercules was to blame! Let her tell you...

"My knees started to shake. I sat down. Hard. Hercules had vanished. He hadn't darted past me. He hadn't run around the corner. He'd walked through a solid wooden door just as if it wasn't there. I could see it again in my head without closing my eyes. He'd vanished through that door and it was almost as though there was a faint pop as the end of his tail disappeared..." Hercules," I called. "C'mon, puss. Where are you?" There was silence and then a faint "Meow" from the other side of the closed door. He was in there. Somehow he was in there. I grabbed the doorknob. Locked. I twisted the knob in frustration. Of course it was locked. The room was part of a murder investigation..."

You all will see that both Herc and I found many clues--even though Mom didn't realize what they meant right away. Then she began to put things together until, wow, a killer came after her! Well, needless to say, we were right there to save her life. While Herc went for help, I took a flying leap--well, let Mom tell you, I get mad just thinking about it!

"Owen appeared in midair, teeth bared, ears flattened against his head. He landed, yowling on [the killer's] head and dug in his claws..." Mom took over once she was able and then help was coming!

I have to tell you, folks, that this was really a very complicated case. The police were trying, and we were gathering clues, but it was Mom who, after her own life had been saved, finally put together who had killed Easton. A truly great whodunit for all you readers!

Oh, Mom thinks that you might want to know a little more about me and Herc. Well, Mom came to visit an old abandoned mansion near to her new home when we were just kits. We recognized her love as soon as we saw her and followed her home! But she didn't know we could do tricks...and, frankly, I'll bet she now wonders sometime if we are ghost cats, since that old mansion is supposed to be haunted...

I just know we'll be back at BRH (her blog) in the future, cause the owner here loves cats too and even collects cat mystery books! How Cool is That! She said to add that this book is highly recommended as a great whodunit, especially for all of you who love cats too!

Meow!
Owen...
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Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2011
I'm perfectly willing to exert intellectual attention on books. Goodness knows I read enough of them. But when I have a long plane ride, I want lightweight entertainment. Just tell me a story, darnit, so that I can ignore the squalling baby seated next to me.

Curiosity Thrilled the Cat was just what I wanted. It has all the ingredients for "summer reading:" an appealing protagonist, a believable premise, entertaining characters, and a dead body. It's even better with cats, and these cats are utterly catlike. What more could I ask for? (Well, I could ask for the baby to sleep for more than half an hour...)

Our basic story: A few months ago, Kathleen left Boston to reboot her life and run the library in a small town in Minnesota. She's struggling with the effort to renovate the library, but she is also making friends and getting to know the two cats she adopted (or, rather, who adopted her). But when a visitor dies and circumstantial evidence suggests that Kathleen might be involved, she -- and her cats -- have to find out what really happened. Which is made more curious because the cats seem to have distinctly uncatlike behavior... or do they?

That sounds just so-so, and in some hands a "yeah, right, whatever" novel might indeed be the result. What makes this book sparkle is the writing. Sofie Kelly created a protagonist who has a sense of humor, and a sense of proportion, too. The cats really are wonderful, and I totally buy Kathleen's relationship with them. When one purrs, Kathleen describes it, "The rumbling was kind of like being in the service bay of a Volkswagon dealership." The author could easily have overdone it, but never falls into that trap.

Really: This is fun. There's sweet humor, not much laugh-out-loud funny, but if you are a cat person it will all seem so very familiar. Like this: "'What are you eating?' I asked, and I swear he put both paws on top of whatever it was he'd been gnawing on. 'Oh, like that's going to work,' I said, crossing the kitchen floor. 'Let me see.' ...He dropped his head and lifted one paw."

I won't give away too much of the plot (not that it's that hard to figure out), but I *will* assure you that this book is a winner -- enough so that I already pre-ordered the next in the series. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat is not deep thoughtful literature that will stand the test of time. It's just a fun story that will take you away for a little while. Just what the doctor ordered.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2021
I read a wide variety of books, some very graphic in language, description, and sexually, so I have no problem with that at all. Yet here is a series of books that are so innocent compared to the average book today, the harshest language I have seen has bee a$$hat, crap on toast, and pissed off. Even if sex is involved it's not detailed it's more like "and then they... You know! (insert knowing smirk here)" I would have no trouble with letting a 12 year old child read these books. That these have great mysteries and wonderful characters makes it even better. Like The Cat Who series by Lillian Jackson Braun, or The Dating the Stacks Mysteries and the Southern Ladies Mysteries both by Miranda James or the Antique Cats Mysteries by Rebecca M. Hale, you fall in love with the people and places, Mayville Heights is a lovely Minnesota town and the denizens become family and are a joy to visit again and again. The lack of rude and grotesque is a welcome breath of fresh air, and a definite part of their everlasting charm and the mysteries are always engaging, strap in you have (as of this writing) 12 more after this one and I am looking forward to many more after. Sofie Kelly puts out about one a year but I wouldn't care if it was years between book I would buy them up and savor each one❤️.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2024
A nice story to read.

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Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant series.
Reviewed in Australia on August 16, 2023
I have read/listened to all the books so many times. Lots of smiles for the very amusing dialogue between Kathleen and the cats.

Beautifully written and not to be missed.
Edith Barbara
5.0 out of 5 stars Unterhaltsame Geschichte
Reviewed in Germany on February 22, 2013
Dieses Buch unterhält vor allem durch die Vielzahl liebenswerter, teils schrulliger Personen. Dabei gerät die Krimihandlung fast in den Hintergrund, auch wenn die kluge Bibliothekarin meist am Ermitteln ist. Zwischen 4 und 5 Sternen schwanke ich nur deshalb, weil die magischen Fähigkeiten der liebenswerten Katzen eine recht untergeordnete Rolle spielen. Ich hatte mit Magie à la Harry Potter gerechnet und etwas völlig anderes, Unspektakuläreres, bekommen.
Trotzdem freue ich mich auf die Fortsetzung(en), auch wegen der dezenten Liebesgeschichte. NB: Das Englische ist nicht schwierig.
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figgy
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in France on August 13, 2012
Excellent bouquin pour enfant. Il me tarde de lire les suivants. Pour toute amateur de roman/litterature policier enfantile et surtout amoureux de chats.
helen
5.0 out of 5 stars clever cats
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2011
Iwanted an easy read now!!(one of the things I like about kindle) I,m not a cat fan I adore large dogs but as a changefrom my recent love affair with Wolves I thought I,d try this, an entertaining story and yes I,m almost converted ---at least to cats in fiction (my GSD would not be happy for real) Helen cambridge
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Mary D
5.0 out of 5 stars Magical cats, magical read!
Reviewed in Australia on November 12, 2022
Great stories, entertaining, fun. I love the way the author develops the characters, and builds community. I feel a part of the group. Wonderful fantasy read!