Cat Burglar Detective Mysteries

From the Author

A third series? When my marketing coach suggested it, I balked. I'd only ever intended to write one, the Requisition For: A Thief series (Thief). I surprised myself when I took on a suggestion from a fan to write a series about a female thief, Thief à la Femme (Femme). That was most certainly all I thought I'd ever write. I am, after all, all about "the thief who isn't really a bad guy," and I already had a male and a female thief as my MCs (Main Characters). What else was there to do with my particular passion…theft? Ah, what else indeed!

The reason my marketing coach suggested another series was because the previous two don't really fit snuggly into one subgenre. They are main genre Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, but because they're about the thieves as the heroes vs. the usual police/detectives being the heroes, they don't have a subgenre of their own.

Within a few weeks after our discussion, I began entertaining a couple of possibilities: a female detective mystery (subgenre women sleuths/police procedural) or a cozy mystery...no, wait...an animal cozy mystery! Now that excited me. And making the cat a burglar-turned-detective was a lightbulb-over-the-head moment. Deciding to further the fun with a good deal of humor-laden satire sealed the deal, and Cat Burglar Detective Mysteries (CBDM) was born.

CBDM is meant to be pure fun, mischievously delightful. Yes, the cat's attributes pretty much land him in the "a little bit unbelievable" element, but hey, isn't that what makes for a fun, funny, impishly delightful Animal Cozy Mystery? I think so!

I hope you enjoy reading these Animal Cozies as much as I enjoyed writing them.

J.A. Devereaux

Kasia Dobry—FMC (female main character) and Protagonist: pronounced: Kosh-uh Dawbree (slight rollover on the "r").

Mark Delacroix—MMC (male main character): pronounced the American way: Mark Del-uh-Kroy.

Babcia—Polish for grandmother: pronounced: Bob-chuh.

Dziadek—Polish for grandfather: pronounced: Jah-dek.

Nulle Part—French for Nowhere: pronounced: NOOL-par. Nulle Part is a fictional county fictionally located just above the not at all fictional Marquette County in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Partout—French for Everywhere: pronounced: PAR-too. Partout is a fictional city (the county seat) in the fictional Nulle Part County in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.