Purrder, She Wrote
Cat detectives. Quirky heroines. Nefarious small towns with dark secrets. Dana LaCoco and Sunshine LeMontree take a deep dive into the world of cozy cat mysteries to explore the tangled plots and eccentric characters of the genre’s biggest hits.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2019
Episode 17: Revenge at its Felinest
Purrder, She Wrote returns! To kick off Season 2, Sunshine and Dana return to where it all began with the 30th (!) installment in Patricia Fry's Klepto Cat series. This episode is packed with ancient…
Episode 16: Curiosity Killed the Cat
Cats getting drunk. Wizard mafia. Cozy conspiracy bunkers. And one super chill, unflappable heroine. In Episode 16, Dana and Sunshine discover they have no talent for accents, but a lot to say abou…
Episode 14: Curiosity Thrilled the Cat
In this episode, Dana and Sunshine finally find the strong female murderer they've been looking for. We talk girl gangs, magic cats, weaponized cinnamon rolls and unfortunate references to Matt Lauer…
Episode 13: Kitten-sized mini episode!
We've been busy (sadly with non-cozy cat related things), but we wanted to share a kitten-sized episode. Tune in for the tale of our first cozy failure, life updates and help us pick our next read!
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Episode 12: Murder Past Due
We're back in cozy territory with Murder Past Due, a book about paternity scandals, inheritance fraud, and bringing your cat to a funeral. Despite a promising premise, Sunshine and Dana were underwhe…
Episode 11: Murder at the Art Gallery
A hard-boiled cop reincarnated as a cat teams up with a tarot card-reading housewife to solve a murder. What could go wrong? EVERYTHING. Dana and Sunshine lament the terrible grammar, buckwild plot, …
Episode 10: Cat Libs
You've heard of Mad Libs, but Cat Libs? Dana and Sunshine attempt to write their own cozy mystery on the fly. Tune in for ancient burial grounds, Burt Shmeynolds, and martial law!
Episode 9: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
This week, we travel back to the swingin' 60s to read The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. The hero cat, mustache with ESP, and sendup of the snooty art world made us smile. The horribly antiquated gen…
Episode 8: The Cat From Outer Space
Disclaimer: we're not astrophysicists, but we're pretty sure The Cat From Outer Space defies ALL scientific logic. This is our first episode devoted to a cat film, and based on the quality of the fil…
Episode 7: The Cats That Surfed the Web
Episode 7 tackles the monstrous, garbage-fire "protagonist" of The Cats That Surfed the Web. Tune in for savage burns, millennials who still use answering machines and the unmysterious mystery of who…
Episode 6: Much Ado About Muffin
In Episode 6, Dana and Sunshine discuss Victoria Hamilton's Much Ado About Muffin. Prepare yourselves for muffins! Murder! And...meth?!
Episode 5: Pussy and Her Language
In Episode 5, we discuss the obscure pamphlet titled, "Pussy and Her Language," from 1895. Tune in for wild back stories, Victorian Era BuzzFeed articles, cat illuminati, special powers, french acce…
Episode 4: A Hiss-tory of Magic
Episode 4 is full of psychic cats, magical mansplainers, and juicy high school drama. Join Dana and Sunshine as they read Harper Lin's A Hiss-tory of Magic.
Episode 3: CatCon
In this episode, Dana and Sunshine talk about their adventures at CatCon 2017. Tune in to hear about terrible cat-icatures, fantastic cat activists and more.
Episode 2: Purrfect Murder
Talking cats! Irresponsible journalism! Mob rule? This week, Sunshine and Dana dive into Nic Saint's masterpiece, Purrfect Murder.
Episode 1: Catnapped
Dana and Sunshine head to Hammond, USA to discuss the perils of unmitigated cat breeding, whirlwind proposals and the beguiling felines of Patricia Fry's novel, Catnapped.
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