The Black Cat Detectives: A Mystery by Kit Gray

About The Black Cat Detectives

The Black Cat Detectives: A Mystery Cozy Animal Mystery Setting – Corvin’s Crossing—a small fictional island off the coast of New England Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crooked Lane Books Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 26, 2026 Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages Hardcover ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8892425520 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FNW3NQ3C Paperback ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8892425537 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FNVM2SHD Digital ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8892425544 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FNW6TDN4

A charming cozy mystery with a delightful twist: The detectives are three kittens with magical powers, determined to solve a most purr-plexing case.

Precocious kittens Bippity, Boppity, and Boop are exceedingly loyal to their human, the twenty-eight-year-old up-and-coming magician Mila. She saved them from starving to death in a dingy Corvin’s Crossing alleyway and has been nothing but loving ever since, even though her own life is in shambles.

So when Mila’s sketchy boyfriend and business manager turns up dead at the end of her big magic show—she’s the prime suspect. With evidence mounting, there’s nothing stopping the sheriff from hauling away Mila to the human pound. Unless the kittens can solve the crime and clear her name.

The kittens will have to use their dubious control over the laws of physics and every whisker of know-how they’ve got to catch the real killer if they want to save their happy home with Mila. This is one meow-stery more tangled than any ball of yarn they’ve encountered yet.

About Kit Gray

Kit Gray aka Elise Scott writes from their lived experiences of queerness, disability, neurodivergence, fat-positivity, and petting three cats with two hands. Their life has been an adventure, from facilitating equine therapy for trauma survivors to counseling at-risk youth with the aid of an inordinately large sub-woofer and beyond. They earned their BA from Mount Holyoke and their MS from Capella University. Their debut novel, a cozy mystery featuring three kittens with the ability to bend the laws of physics, who must solve a murder to save their rescuer from the human pound, is forthcoming from Crooked Lane in May 2026. Elise is a Not Quite Write Prize winner and Best-of-the-Net nominee. Their short work has appeared/is forthcoming in The Advocate, Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, The Not Quite Write Anthology 2025, The B’K, Five Minutes, Knee Brace, All Existing, and Quibble, among others. Find out what they’re working on now at http://elise-scott.com.

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