Did you know pet mystery was a genre? One for adults? Because I certainly didn’t and I absolutely needed to check it out. I haven’t really read any mystery since high school, so this was a little nostalgic for me.
The story follows Harry as she tries to solve the mystery of who killed her friend, Gary, in broad daylight. As Harry, along with her very opinionated cats and dog, try to uncover why a masked shooter would want to even target Gary, much less commit a crime in broad daylight, the story flashes back to the distant past to show that the roots of this go back further than expected.
As much as I loved the ideas, this ultimately wasn’t for me. I was more interested in the banter between the cats and dogs than I was in the mystery unfolding, and ended up completely skipping over the flashbacks in favour of trying to get to more of the pets. The cozy mystery part was ultimately completely dwarfed by the antics of Pewter the drama queen, which I don’t think was supposed to happen.
Ultimately, I think I’m just not a cozy mystery person. This is also the seventh book in the series, which did me no favours in getting into it. It’s still well written and the mystery does unfold in a satisfying manner, but it wasn’t for me.