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Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you are all having a good day today.

Today I am bringing you my book review for The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by L T Shearer. I read this on a car journey up to London.

Blurb/Synopsis:

The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by L T Shearer is a charming cosy crime read for fans of Richard Osman and S. J. Bennett.

Retired police detective Lulu Lewis’s life changed forever when she met a street cat named Conrad. There’s something very special about Conrad, but it’s a secret she has to keep to herself.

When Lulu takes her narrowboat to Oxford, she is planning nothing more stressful than attending a friend’s birthday party. And drinking a few glasses of Chardonnay.

But a brutal murder and a daring art theft means her plans are shattered – instead she and Conrad find themselves on the trail of a killer.

A killer who may well strike again

My review:

Okay, first of all I should have read the blurb more carefully because I didn’t realise that this book was the second one in a series although after reading it I would say it works well enough as a standalone because I could understand it all fine without the set up from the first novel.

This novel follows Lulu as she attends an event at an old friend’s house, accompanied by her cat Conrad – who by the way, can talk. Once there she finds out before her arrival there had already been a break in and a murder.

I honestly thought I was going to love this book, a good cosy mystery with some intricately woven threads of a story but in my opinion that’s not what I got.
I felt that a lot of this book was very slow in pace, that does work sometimes in books but for me not in this one. It felt like there wasn’t enough going on in the plot to keep my attention. I did enjoy the premise and the middle section of the book because it picked up a bit and I did like how some of plot points linked together in surprising ways.
For me, what I disliked the most was the ending of this novel, now I’m not going to spoil anything in case you want to read this book, it used one of the devices I absolutely hate in novels and it made what was going to be a maybe 4 star read a lot lower in my rating.