🐈‍⬛Virtual Book Tour & Book Review & #Giveaway: The Black Cat Detectives: A Mystery by Kit Gray

Welcome to my stop on the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour for The Black Cat Detectives: A Mystery by Kit Gray! Today we are featuring a review of this charming cozy mystery that has a delightful twist: the detectives are three kittens with magical powers, determined to solve a most purr-plexing case. Stop by each blog on the tour for interviews, guest posts, spotlights, reviews, and more!

There is also a Giveaway: one winner receives a signed ARC of The Black Cat Detectives with an adorable Cuteness Care Package, which is a collection of stickers, bookmarks, and other swag. Three runners-up will win only the cuteness care package. ENTER HERE! ⬅️

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

About the Book:

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.

My Review:

How cute is this! This is the perfect book to pick up when you need a true escape and want to get lost in the world of mystery and kittens. Mila, our main character, is working hard at her career as a stage magician, and readers can’t help but root for her. She’s kind and brave, even though she has a terrible boyfriend.

The real stars of the story are Bippity, Boppity, and Boop – the three strays that Mila adopts (or the opposite). They are “magical” in a sense and help Mila in many ways, including solving murder. The antics of the kittens are entertaining and amusing.

This is a creative story, unique in its premise and points of view, and lots of fun for cat lovers and mystery lovers alike.

About the Author:

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 her website.

TOUR PARTICIPANTS:

June 3 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
June 3 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
June 4 – Storybook Lady – REVIEW, AUTHOR GUEST POST
June 4 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
June 5 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
June 5 – @bibliophile_foodie – REVIEW
June 6 – Baroness Book Trove -SPOTLIGHT
June 7 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT
June 8 – Mochas, Mysteries and Meows -CHARACTER GUEST POST
June 9 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
June 9 – Sneaky the Library Cat’s Blog – REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW
June 10 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
June 11 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – REVIEW
June 12 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR GUEST POST
June 13 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
June 13 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT
June 14 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, AUTHOR INTERVIEW
June 15 – Sarandipity’s – CHARACTER GUEST POST
June 16 – Deal Sharing Aunt – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

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