Cozy mystery book review: Death By A Whisker (A Cat Rescue Mystery #2) T.C. LoTempio

Title: Death By A Whisker (A Cat Rescue Mystery #2)

Author: T.C. LoTempio

Source: Netgalley

Genre: Mystery, cozy

Lenth: Novel

Reviewed by Laurie 

Rating: 4 

Getting used to life back home in Deer Park, North Carolina, Sydney McCall and her right-hand tabby, Toby, are helping her sister Kat run the local animal shelter. Syd and Kat are all excited about the prospect of the shelter's newest fundraiser: shopping channel queen Ulla Townsend. Shelter admin Maggie Shayne vehemently refuses to have anything to do with the woman, but the fundraiser ensues as planned. That is until Ulla turns up dead in the middle of the event.

The cause of death is determined to be an allergic reaction, but Syd and Toby are sniffing out something fishy. When Syd met Ulla, it was clear she was distasteful and rude. And right before the event, Syd spotted some behind-the-scenes drama between Ulla and her manager. As they begin to investigate, they realize there is no shortage of suspects, and Maggie is at the top of the list.

Now Syd and Toby must claw their way to the truth before everything goes paws up at their animal shelter in Death by a Whisker by national bestselling author T. C. LoTempio.

Author T.C. LoTempio takes you on an adventure with fun-loving cats, great characters, fantastic story settings, and an edge of your seat mystery that will stick with you for years to come.

I enjoyed the characters and the depth of the mystery, I even love how one of their own is tossed right in the middle of the mystery, it just made this story all much better of an edge of your seat story.

I would recommend this to anyone that loves cozy cat mysteries. I can’t wait to see what trouble Syd and Toby are going to get into next. 

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Review: No Rest for the Wicca by T.C. Lotempio

Title: No Rest for the Wicca

Author: T.C. Lotempio

Source: Review Request

Genre: Urban Fantasy 

Authors Website: www.freewebs.com/toni1953/

Format: pdf

Communing with the dead is an everyday occurrence for PI Morgan Hawkes. A half-Wiccan witch who can commune with spirits of those caught between worlds, Morgan uses her talents to exorcise the trapped ghost or demon as part of the Paranormal Investigation Squad – until a string of murders with a voodoo slant prompts the Special Forces Agency to ask for her assistance. Someone’s killing pureblood witches- and the SFA’s convinced Morgan’s heritage (her father was a voodoo priest) could be instrumental in solving the mystery. Teamed with dashing SF agent Cole St. John – an Inheritor Vampire that sets her blood racing – the two of them fight their attraction for each other as they race to stop a madman from unleashing a demonic force upon the world.

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Morgan Hawkes is half Wicca and the other half Voodoo roots. Suffering from the guilt she feels for her partners death, Morgan decides to forego homicide and takes a role as paranormal investigator or ghost buster. Until a rash of murders begins near the local university.

Cole St. John is an Inheritor vampire and a member of Special Forces Agency. Due to Morgan’s unique bloodline Cole feels she is the perfect partner to hunt down the killers and possibly his perfect woman. At first Morgan refuses, then her cousin, Xia, is almost the next victim and Morgan decides to join the hunt.

For me this novel was bogged down with to many different species of demons, and types of witches. Due to the overload I never got to really know and enjoy who the characters were and what they were capable of. Also, some of the content rambled a bit. I found myself tempted to skim ahead on more than one occasion. As far as the love scenes go they came up short for me. I would have liked to see more detail in the romance aspect of the novel.

All in all, the world the author is building has great potential, but came up a bit short in this novel.