cats, situational-humor, sleuth, small-business, small-town, murder, murder-investigation, cozy-mystery, magical-twist, verbal-humor, family-dynamics, friendship, author, law-enforcement****

Someone REALLY did not want the author to publish that Tell All book! Nora makes an appointment to see the temperamental author visiting town, but Nick the cat finds her body when they get there. Nora is a freelance journalist, runs a sandwich shop, has one old boyfriend working as temporary local Homicide detective, and the current one is FBI. But it's the cat who shows her where the clues are (and he is certainly NOT a sleek Siamese!). If you like stories where the cat is the star and the sleuth thwarts the law enforcement, you'll love this one, too! No spoilers and the publisher's blurb is a great hook!
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Beyond the Page Publishing via NetGalley. Thank you!

I received this ARC via Netgalley and Beyond The Page Publishing, in return for an honest review. While the fourth book in this series, it is easily read as a standalone.  A former investigative crime reporter, Nora Charles moved back to her hometown after inheriting a sandwich shop from her mother.  She also got an unexpected partner, Nick, who is a handsome tuxedo cat with an uncanny ability to use Scrabble tiles to help her solve mysteries.  In this latest partnership mystery, one of Nora’s mother’s oldest friends is in town and desperately needs Nora’s help.  Desiree’s writing partner wants to dissolve their long and highly successful partnership.  Nora, reluctantly, agrees to visit the partner and find out what’s going on.  Unfortunately, it turns out to be murder.  There are lots of suspects and layers of interest in the tell-all book that was, supposedly, being written.  That possibility raises the interest of Nora’s two erstwhile suitors, FBI agents Daniel and Sammy.
This was a delightful introduction to this series for me and I find the entire premise so clever.  Nora is interesting and the storyline logic flows well.  Nick is the perfect partner in crime-solving.  The love interests are there but not too much there as they try to keep Nora and Nick safe.  Looking forward to the next outing in this series!

A fun, easy read cozy mystery that will please any reader. Nick and Nora make a great team and I love the antics that Nick gets involved with.

Nick and Nora are looking into an authors murder at the request of Nora’s mothers old friend. Who would want to kill one half of a romance writing team? The partner, the agent or someone else?
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Princess Fuzzypants here:  It has been too long since I last visited with Nick and Nora Charles, not the film version but the literary one.  Nick, a handsome debonair gentle-cat always well groomed in his tuxedo and Nora, his partner in crime detection found a new literary home and their fans, including me, are delighted.  It was worth the wait.

They have come back with a good mystery.  The writing partner of a friend of her mother’s has announced she is breaking up the partnership.  Desiree, her mother’s friend,  enlists Nora’s help, ostensibly, to find out what she has planned.  It turns out Desiree is going to turn into the prime suspect when Nora discovers her partner’s murdered corpse.  Now Nora and Nick have a good reason to investigate and they find all sorts of equally good suspects.  The woman had written a salacious expose of the secrets of many of the people closest to her.  While all of those whose stories would be revealed would have been embarrassed, even ruined, one of them felt strongly enough to kill her.

Nora, with Nick’s amazing talent for providing clues speaks to each of the possible killers, much to the chagrin of Daniel and Sammy’s, the two FBI guys who are working the case and who both fancy Nora.  She realizes that until she finds the manuscript, it will be impossible to reveal the perp.  Without Nick, she would still be looking.  He leads her to the evidence and he rescues her from danger.  All without getting his fur ruffled.  He gives William Powell, the Nick Charles of the movies, a run for his money.

I love the interaction between the two main characters. He is one smart kitty and she is an intelligent human who relies on his many talents.  It makes for a highly enjoyable read.  I am so pleased they are back and look forward to many more adventures.

Five purrs and two paws firmly up.

Nora and her kitty Nick seem to stumble on dead bodies like nobody’s business.  When an old friend of her Mother’s reaches out and asks for help, Nora and Nick stumble upon the body of the woman’s writing partner.  When the author becomes the prime suspect, Nora and Nick are on the case and looking for the murderer.  

When they Nick and Nora stumble on yet another dead body, Nick does his best to keep Nora from meeting the same fate.  With a feline partner, Nora has to hope they haven’t used up all nine of Nick’s lives before they find the killer.

This is the first book I have read in this series and there were no gaps, it reads fine as a standalone.  Though I have to say, I am in love with Nick!  Can’t wait to read more in this series!

I'm so happy because I missed Nick&Nora as this is one of my favourite series.
I had a lot of fun reading this story and I couldn't put it down as I was turning pages as fast as I could.
It was great to catch up with the characters: they are well thought and likeable as usual.
The mystery is fast paced, full of twists and turns, and the solution came as a surprise. There's plenty of secrets, a very unlikeable victim, had a very clever cat that will help to solve the mystery.
As I'm not a fun of love triangles I appreciated how it didn't impacted the plot and hope it will be solved soon.
I hope to read a lot of new Nick&Nora novels, this one is highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Date reviewed/posted: December 19, 2020
Publication date: February 9, 2021

When life for the entire universe and planet has turned on its end, you are continuing to #maskup to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation as the #secondwave is upon us, AND the worst sciatica attack in your life means you MIGHT sleep 3 hours a night,  superspeed readers like me can read 300+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today.

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

Nick and Nora are back in a tantalizing new mystery that’s far more dangerous than a game of cat and mouse. .

Never one to turn away from a challenge—even when it goes against her better judgment—Nora Charles can hardly say no when an old friend of her mother’s comes to town seeking her help. The author of steamy romances has learned that her writing partner is severing their relationship and threatening to reveal dark and dirty secrets in a tell-all, and she pleads with Nora to intervene. Reluctantly agreeing to help, Nora pays a visit to the writing partner, ready to make her case—right up until the moment she discovers the woman’s lifeless body.

With the police convinced that Nora’s friend is the culprit, she and Nick begin delving into the dead woman’s past and her provocative tell-all. It soon becomes apparent that the woman had a knack for digging up the dirt and wasn’t shy about exposing skeletons in closets, and before long Nora has a seemingly endless list of suspects who were at risk of having their darkest secrets revealed. With a police force intent on throwing the book at Nora’s friend and time running out, she and Nick must outwit a dangerous killer before they take their own secrets to the grave . . .

Lots of secrets can make one's life deadly as proven in this book - the characters are well written and the plot nice and twisty and turn: I also appreciate that I could not guess the killer right away (unlike Mary Higgins Clark's books). I like a book that is in a series that I do not have to necessarily go back and read the previous books to understand and appreciate what is going on. A great little book and cozy mystery to curl up with along with a cuppa under a blanket come February when it comes out.

As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I simply adore emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/snowflakes / literally-like-overusers etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it ☕☕☕☕