Purrfect Murder

On the recommendation from a friend, I read [a:Nic Saint 8132159 Nic Saint https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1598905453p2/8132159.jpg]'s mystery, [b:Purrfect Murder 50385637 Purrfect Murder (The Mysteries of Max, #1) Nic Saint https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1578658406l/50385637.SY75.jpg 55760781]. I'm not normally a “whodunit” reader, so maybe it's my unfamiliarity with the genre that colors this review.I found it entertaining, but not over sophisticated. Some days, that's just what I want to read. But the talking cats and their perception of human's lives seemed less feline and more juvenile.I did enjoy the story and I stuck with it know the resolution of two of the main story threads. Who killed Paulo Frey, an author and victim of the “purrfect” murder, referenced in the title. Also, was the new cop in the small town of Hampton Cove a upstanding guy or was he someone who carried on an affair with an official's wife in NYC and got drummed out of the NYPD for it?The first story thread was answered sufficiently, thanks to the cats' detective work. The second, well, I guess that's what sequels are for. Overall, I enjoyed the read but often found it a little on the juvenile side. I would have liked to have seen the main love interest fleshed out more. Did Odelia, the cats' owner, ever get it together with the new cop with the soap opera name, Chase Kingsley? It started at as a enemies-to-friends sort of trope, but left the reader out of any key scene between them. However, it is a murder mystery, not a romance.The four main cats did have distinct personalities. In ways, they were more three dimensional than the humans in the story.