Any good books?

**Freedom** · 11-17-2007, 10:05 PM

Rita Mae Brown writes 3 mystery series.

One is the Mrs. Murphy series; these are terrific! ALl the animals talk to each other, and what they think about us humans is pretty fun. Mrs. Murphy usually solves the case and spends time trying to get her human to understand what happened.

Another is the Sister Jane Foxhunting series. Again the animals all talk; well, these aren't exactly cat mysteries, usually the OTHER animals solve things as Golly(the cat) is too busy chasing things. Read in order, same as for above, for the proper character development.

Third is a series Rita "co-writes" with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown. The main character is helped by her 2 cats and her dog Tucker in solving the mysteries. Also a series, so best read in order written.

I also enjoy the Midnight Louie series. Midnight Louie is a black cat who not only has to solve the mystery but usually has to keep his human out of trouble along the way.

Here, this web site gives you these series and many others:

http://faculty.law.lsu.edu/ccorcos/l...T%20DETECTIVES

When you finish all those, get back to me and we can start on the dog detectives!

(Actually, I've not seen that site before and will have to start in on them. I've read The cat Who series as well. I am a library regular, every other Tuesday, have been for YEARS.) Yes, I've read a few dog detective series as well!

**karlyb** · 11-18-2007, 01:15 AM

When I was at Barnes & Noble this week, I found a cat series for teenagers and bought the first two books for my niece for Christmas. I plan to read them myself before I give them to her! It is the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. The cats talk to each other and have descriptive names such as Dappletail, Whitestorm, Stumpytail, and Nightpelt.

The blurb on the back reads "For generations four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying - and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty...who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all."

Karly

**Freedom** · 11-18-2007, 09:39 AM

Oooh, sounds great! I'll check into those as well, thanks!

**Randi** · 11-18-2007, 10:25 AM

Ahh, more authors - great! I'll go look for them.

**gini** · 11-18-2007, 12:37 PM

The Rita Mae Brown - Sneaky Pie series is soooo good. But do read them in order.

And thank you to others for such good suggestions.

**Cincy'sMom** · 11-18-2007, 01:30 PM

I've not read any of her cat Mysteries, but Susan Conant has at least two series. I've read all of her dog lovers mysteries in which the main character has 2 malamutes. She also has a series of cat mysteries.