Books like Cat Came Back (the 9 Lives Cozy Mystery Series, Book 1) by Louise Clark

Jim Qwilleran, a seasoned reporter, teams with his Siamese cat Koko to solve murders in Michigan’s art scene.

Jim Qwilleran, award‑winning reporter, and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum investigate a murder in Kirkland County. When Koko vanishes, the unlikely sleuth duo must navigate clues and a remote crime scene to solve the case.

Inheritance, mystery, and a bold librarian collide when Aurora "Roe" Teagarden learns she has been named heir to a sizeable estate—and a murder to solve.

278 pages ; 18 cm820L Lexile

When the local newspaper’s eccentric publisher dies in an accident, Jim Qwilleran and his three cats suspect foul play and dig into a shocking secret that could put the feline trio in danger.

When Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats investigate a historic apartment building, they uncover a murder and a race to stop its demolition.

Reporter Jim Qwilleran teams up with his Siamese cat Koko and a new female Siamese, Yum Yum, to investigate a mysterious fall that threatens the life of a prominent antique dealer in the small town of Junktown.

Jim Qwilleran, joined by his Siamese cats, visits the peaceful Potato Mountains, only to find the region riven by a dispute between a rough‑neck faction called the Taters and affluent hill developers.

In the small town of Pickax, journalist Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cat Koko investigate a baffling bee‑sting death that threatens the town’s new senior center, a local museum conversion, and a mysterious housekeeper’s disappearance.

Jim Qwilleran leaves the city for a lakeside cabin in Moose County, where a quiet fishing trip turns into a mystery — a body appears, but locals claim it’s just a tire.

Explore the charming domestic world of Koko and Yum Yum, the Siamese cats who steal the spotlight in Lilian Jackson Braun’s mystery series, and discover how their antics intertwine with the adventures of journalist Jim Qwilleran.

Journalist Jim Qwilleran reports on Moose County’s bicentennial celebrations and the launch of a new Pickaw bookstore while a mystery involving a talking turkey—handled by the resident cat detectives—unfolds.

In Pickax, Minnesota, reporter Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum investigate a string of petty thefts, a murder, and a mysterious hotel fire to uncover the culprit behind the town’s latest crimes.

When October brings wildfires to Moose County, a town fearing arson and the death of a fire‑watcher turns to Jim Qwilleran and his feline companion Koko to uncover the truth.

243 pages ; 18 cm810L Lexile

Reporter Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum investigate a suspicious actor’s death and a stolen rare book during a town’s new bookstore opening, with Koko’s odd behavior hinting at the clues.

In return for a tragedy amid Pickax’s Highland Games, amateur sleuth Jim Qwilleran finds himself chasing a dead jewelry dealer, a missing assistant, and a vanished caber-tossing winner, with Koko the Siamese cat adding unexpected clues.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

Meg Langslow, the eager maid‑of‑honor in a tiny Virginia town, must juggle wedding plans for three brides—one with a Native‑American purification ritual and another wanting live peacocks—while an off‑beat newcomer’s murder and a string of accidents threaten the Southern summer.