Cats: An Amateur Sleuth’s Best Friends! by Ruth J. Hartman

I’d like to thank Annette Dashofy for generously allowing me to do a guest post and borrow her spot today on Writers Who Kill.

My newest release is Purrfectly Framed, Book 2 in the Mobile Cat Groomers Mysteries. Here’s the blurb:

When mobile cat groomer, Molly Stewart, asks her friend Evan to photograph her new feline clients, they both get more than they bargained for when the body of Evan’s old art teacher is found bludgeoned to death in his photography studio darkroom. After one of Evan’s photos catches suspicious activity in the background, Molly is ready to call the authorities with the newest piece of information. However, an anonymous phone call which threatens not only her, but Evan and their pets, convinces Molly to clam up and find the murderer herself. Will the tenuous situation end up being picture perfect or a photo bomb?

Purrfectly Framed is available here. 

As you can probably tell, I love cats. In fact, all of my books have at least one feline in them! This series has several, and the main character, Molly, uses her mobile grooming van to visit the quirky cats (and their equally quirky humans!) to make sure the kitties of Whitewater Valley, Indiana, are their most gorgeous, fluffy selves. Molly’s traveling grooming station also makes it convenient to check out clues all over town whenever a pesky murder happens.

You can check out my other cozy mysteries here. 

And my website: www.ruthjhartman.com

Ruth J. Hartman loves a good mystery. That’s probably why she happily gave up a life of cleaning other people’s teeth to write books. With several cozy mysteries under her belt, her main problem is keeping the characters straight – sometimes they have a tendency to hop on over to a different series, just for laughs.

Over forty books later, consisting of romances, a children’s book, women’s fiction, and now cozy mysteries, Ruth still enjoys the thrill of taking the thoughts and images of her characters from her imagination to her computer screen.

She lives in rural Indiana with her husband, Garry, and their family of spoiled cats. Because of Ruth’s love for felines, every one of her books has at least one cat in it. Her cats, who’ve deemed themselves her editors, act like they’re supervising her writing, even though they’re often loafing off or napping.