Leann Sweeney

Aug 2016 20

The Cat, the Collector and the Killer By Leann Sweeney: Review/Giveaway/Interview

2016 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Pets, Sandra Murphy

by Sandra Murphy

The last six months of Jillian Hart’s life in Mercy, South Carolina has been sheer bliss. Newly married to police chief Tom Stewart, they have blended Jillian’s Abyssinian Syrah, Himalayan Chablis, Maine Coon Merlot, and Tom’s diabetic tabby Dashiell into one sublime feline family. Jillian always makes herself available to support a cat cause, so she doesn’t hesitate when Mercy Animal Sanctuary’s owner Shawn Cuddahee asks for help. This time though, it’s to act as a buffer between himself and Chester Winston, the county animal control officer with a restraining order against Shawn that prevents him from making a welfare check on a woman and her wandering cats.

Nov 2015 21

Tea-Cozy by The Cozy Chicks

2015 Articles, Food Fun, Mysteryrat's Maze

by The Cozy Chicks

Long day today. Meetings and deadlines, traffic and headaches, arguments and resolutions . . . but now the children are asleep, the spouse is dozing, and dinner was tasty and filling. Finally, it’s time for you!

Jul 2015 25

Coming Attractions: Busy August Edition

2015 Articles, Coming Attractions!, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sunny Frazier

by Sunny Frazier

“Idle hands are the devil's workshop.” We have lots of entrepreneurs in this month's mysteries to help keep your hands and mind busy with fun reads!
Jane Steward is organizing a Valentine's week of activities at her book-themed resort, Storyton Hall. It all goes to hell when Rosamund York, one of the most celebrated authors in attendance, is killed. Rosamund had plenty of enemies: fellow novelists, a former lover, and dozens of angry fans.

Aug 2014 16

The Cat, the Vagabond, and the Victim: A Cats in Trouble Mystery By Leann Sweeney

2014 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze, Pets

by Cynthia Chow

Allison Cuddahee, owner of Mercy, South Carolina’s pet rescue/no-kill shelter, knows a cat who travels on his own to return home always makes national news. When a feline named Clyde treks over two hundred miles to find his cancer-stricken human, it’s sure to be a media sensation. The additional hook of owner Norm Jeffrey’s death before they could be reunited makes the story more irresistible.

Jun 2013 1

The Cat, The Mill and The Murder By Leann Sweeney: Book Review/Giveaway

2013 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow

When Jillian Hart took on the assignment of helping to remove a colony of feral cats from Mercy, South Carolina’s abandoned Lorraine Stanley Textile Mill, she was expecting the heartache and difficulty of confronting cats too wild to live with humans but lack the instincts to survive completely on their own. What is unexpected is the discovery of a human living amidst the feral cats, all the more shocking for it being Clara Jeanne Sloan, a woman long since gone missing after her own daughter’s disappearance.

May 2013 4

Read Humane-Mysteries With Heart

2013 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Pets

by Leann Sweeney

Thanks to my publisher, Penguin, I am fortunate enough to be part of the Read Humane event along with five other mass market paperback authors. All of us write stories involving animals and we take great pride in that. We believe they indeed live up to the "Read Humane" initiative. Animals are treated with dignity and respect between the covers of our books.