Paula Tutman: July 2010 Archives

A-litter-ation best defines the latest book by Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme.

Midnight Louie makes a triumphant return in the 22nd book in the series about a Private Investigator of the feline-domesticus variety who shows us that cats are far more clever than people, especially when it comes to ratting out crime and wrong-doing.

If you're new to the series and you're wondering how on earth a cat can nip crime as a super sleuth, Carole has always been ahead of her time.

She penned the eight acclaimed Irene Adler Sherlockian thrillers before Robert Downey, Jr., met the lady on screen in his hot new Sherlock Holmes film franchise.  She foresaw the sunrise of vampires, creating the Delilah Street noir urban fantasy series five years ago--long before Twilight!  With the magic of Midnight Louie, she's struck absolute literary gold. I mean, think about it--this series has more lives than Felix, Garfield, Morris and the Cheshire combined--and  the hordes are still hungry for it--certainly in part because Douglas has proven once again that murder doesn't have to be such dead serious business.