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Cate Conte

Book Review: Witch Hunt by Cate Conte

By John Valeri

July 9, 2020

This June, Cate Conte—aka Liz Mugavero—launches a new paranormal mystery series for Kensington with Witch Hunt. As Mugavero, she previously wrote the seven-book Pawsitively Organic Mysteries, which launched with 2013’s Agatha Award-nominated Kneading to Die and concluded with Murder, She Meowed (2019). As Conte, she continues to helm the Cat Café Mysteries for St. Martin’s;…

Tell Tail Heart by Cate Conte: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

May 16, 2019

Tell Tail Heart by Cate Conte is the third book in the Cat Cafe Mystery series, where Maddie James’s cat café is at risk of becoming a crime scene for the purrfect murder—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! Maddie is hoping to have some downtime during Daybreak Island’s off-season to tackle her to-do list. Her grandfather’s…

Review: Purrder She Wrote by Cate Conte

By John Valeri

July 27, 2018

Purrder She Wrote by Cate Conte is the second book in the pawsitively charming Cat Cafe Mystery series set off the New England coast, where curiosity leads to some killer small-town secrets. Take a visual tour through Purrder She Wrote with GIFnotes! Last summer, popular cozy author Liz Mugavero (the Pawsitively Organic Mysteries) marked a new chapter in her…

Purrder She Wrote: New Excerpt

By Cate Conte

Purrder She Wrote by Cate Conte is the second book in the pawsitively charming Cat Cafe Mystery series set off the New England coast, where curiosity leads to some killer small-town secrets. Take a visual tour through Purrder She Wrote with GIFnotes! It’s the grand opening of Daybreak Island’s cat café, where customers can get cozy with an…

Purrder She Wrote by Cate Conte: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

June 27, 2018

Purrder She Wrote by Cate Conte is the second book in the pawsitively charming new Cat Cafe Mystery series, where curiosity leads to some killer small-town secrets—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! It’s the grand opening of Daybreak Island’s cat café… Where customers can get cozy with an assortment of friendly felines… And maybe even take one…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: July 2018

By Crime HQ

June 15, 2018

  Criminal Element’s July 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of July 1 through July 7 Title Author Series Date The Corpse at the Crystal Palace Carola Dunn Daisy Dalrymple Mystery #23 7/3 Dyeing Up Loose Ends Maggie Sefton Knitting Mystery #16 7/3 Scandal Above Stairs Jennifer Ashley Below Stairs Mystery #2 7/3 Killer Green…

Q&A with Liz Mugavero, Author of Purring Around the Christmas Tree

By Liz Mugavero

September 25, 2017

Liz Mugavero is the author of the Pawsitively Organic Mystery series, which debuted with Kneading to Die (2013)—an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel; A Biscuit, A Casket, The Icing on the Corpse, Murder Most Finicky, and Custom Baked Murder followed. She recently launched a new Cat Café cozy series with Cat About Town,…

Cat About Town by Cate Conte

Review: Cat About Town by Cate Conte

By John Valeri

August 2, 2017

Cat About Town by Cate Conte is the first novel in a frisky new Cat Cafe Mystery series set in a small New England town, where an unlikely citizen is called in to solve the purrfect crime. Take a visual tour of Cat About Town with GIFnotes! Cat About Town is the first Cat Cafe Mystery…

Cat About Town by Cate Conte

Cate Conte Excerpt: Cat About Town

By Cate Conte

July 26, 2017

Cat About Town by Cate Conte is the first novel in a frisky new Cat Cafe Mystery series set in a small New England town, where an unlikely citizen is called in to solve the purrfect crime (available August 1, 2017). Take a visual tour of Cat About Town with GIFnotes! Maddie James has arrived in…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: August, 2017

By Crime HQ

July 17, 2017

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we got fireworks and amazing July cozies; this month, we get even more great books to help brave the dog days of summer! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what…

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