The Cat Saw Murder: A Rachel Murdock Mystery

It's been an article of faith with me for several years that female mystery/crime writers are often under-rated, so it wasn't really a surprise that Dolores Hitchens was another example of this. That a novel with “cat” in the title wouldn't be insufferably “cosy” was a surprise. The cat does feature in the story, in an unusual way, but it's Rachel Murdock and Lieutenant Mayhew who are the mismatched pair who make this so much fun. It is cosy, but not insufferably so, as there are plenty of unpleasant characters and situations. I am likely to read another of these eventually.