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    The Cat of Amontillado: The Psychic Cat Mysteries, #1
    The Cat of Amontillado: The Psychic Cat Mysteries, #1
    The Cat of Amontillado: The Psychic Cat Mysteries, #1
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    The Cat of Amontillado: The Psychic Cat Mysteries, #1

    By SM Reine

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    It takes a special kind of man to survive in a world torn apart by vampires, zombies, sidhe, and gods.

    A man like Mr. Poe.

    Brilliant. Handsome. Fluffy. A psychic cat who can shapeshift into a human.

    A vampire's shriveled husk is found long-dead in a wine cellar underneath Haven, a retirement resort where immortals pass infinite time. The only rule in Haven is zero violence, and there's zero tolerance.

    Mr. Poe must team up with the local sheriff, Gwyneth Gresham, in order to solve the murder, bring justice to the deader-than-usual victim, and survive Miss Draconia's Knitting Circle. For a budding detective like Mr. Poe, one little murder mystery won't even give him paws.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Iris Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2019
    ISBN9781386804468
    The Cat of Amontillado: The Psychic Cat Mysteries, #1
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      The Cat of Amontillado - SM Reine

      The Cat of Amontillado

      The Cat of Amontillado

      The Psychic Cat Mysteries

      S M Reine

      Red Iris Books

      About The Cat of Amontillado

      It takes a special kind of man to survive in a world torn apart by vampires, zombies, sidhe, and gods.

      A man like Mr. Poe.

      Brilliant. Handsome. Fluffy. A psychic cat who can shapeshift into a human.

      A vampire’s shriveled husk is found long-dead in a wine cellar underneath Haven, a retirement resort where immortals pass infinite time. The only rule in Haven is zero violence, and there’s zero tolerance.

      Mr. Poe must team up with the local sheriff, Gwyneth Gresham, in order to solve the murder, bring justice to the deader-than-usual victim, and survive Miss Draconia’s Knitting Circle. For a budding detective like Mr. Poe, one little murder mystery won't even give him paws.

      Copyright © 2019 by S M Reine

      PCM1-v1.1

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Just kidding, I don’t really care. Give this book to all your friends. But leave me a nice review if you do - it really helps. Does anyone read this stuff?

      All rights reserved.

      Contents

      Dear Reader…

      1. Mr. Poe and His Mummies

      2. A Happening of Ill-Fortune

      3. Kittensitting

      4. Yarn and Hexes

      5. Miss Draconia’s Knitting Circle

      6. Sheriff Gwyn

      7. Town Hall

      8. Azoic

      9. Purl Two, Stab One

      10. Aunt Gwyneth

      Afterword

      The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

      Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

      Dear Reader…

      I’ve written over fifty urban fantasy novels as of the moment I type this letter to you. A reader recently told me she had fifty-seven of my books on her Kindle, and that sounds about right. I’ve long since stopped trying to track it.

      All of my urban fantasy books take place in the same world, which I call The Descentverse, named after the first series that took off and began attracting readers. With those characters, we journeyed from apocalypse on Earth to Hell below and Heaven even further below, and we watched the Godslayer kill God.

      I’ve had the pleasure of writing far into the future in this world. I’ve written the death of everyone and everything. I’ve written babies born, happy marriages, families found, and bodies buried.

      But I’ve never written a character like Mr. Poe.

      Believe me when I say he is going to utterly transform your life. He’s a modern Sherlock Holmes. He’s brilliant. The best detective in The Descentverse. A man willing to make the tough choices. A man who sometimes weigh no more than six pounds.

      Paired up with Gwyneth Gresham—a tough former rancher who was resurrected as a zombie—there’s no mystery the two of them can’t solve.

      If this is your first dip into my universe, welcome! Mr. Poe is a brand new character and I hope you’ll love him as I do. If this peek into The Descentverse is interesting and not too frustratingly confusing, you may be interested in trying one of my many free books.

      If you’re a Descentverse regular, welcome back! I hope you brought your yarn bowl.

      Happy reading.

      ~ Sara, April 2019

      http://smreine.com/

      For Poe

      The Cat of Amontillado

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      Mr. Poe and His Mummies

      I’m not too proud to admit I was born underneath a patio. There’s a certain poetic elegance to it, if you think about it: A feline as noble as me, with such lovely sleek lines, rising from the earth like gold nuggets within a pan of soggy mud. I am a handsome boy, to be sure, so the contrast is the stuff of legends.

      It’s fortuitous that I was born underneath that particular patio. That was where my biological mother birthed a largely unremarkable litter of kittens, and it’s also where I was found by my real mummies.

      The creature I was born to was an ordinary stray cat. She had nothing to offer but life.

      My real mummies were the ones who heard my urgent mewls and thought to look underneath the patio to find the lot of us.

      I see them, said Suzy. I didn’t know my first mummy’s name at the time. I also didn’t know English at the time, nor could I shapeshift

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