I used to say you can do that to me (because worse violations have happened in publishing), but you can’t do that to a twenty-pound alley cat who thinks he’s Sam Spade.
But even Louie can’t reinvent himself single-handedly. Only readers can do that. Thank you all for your support of the long journey Louie and company have made. The four human protagonists have all been forced to reexamine their family origins and issues and their own misconceptions and flaws so they can reconcile their pasts with the present, and their futures. Louie’s cat family has made the journey too. Few authors are permitted, given the ups and downs of a publishing career, to finish such a long series.
It you think this sounds like “Good-bye,” it is really a way of saying, Hang on, the best is yet to be. In all of our lives.
Is Midnight Louie your kind of cat?
Carole has been dragging home rescue cats since she was old enough to walk. Louie is based on a survival-savvy cat someone else rescued, but Carole helped find him a home. If you like Louie and his books, let everyone know by posting a review at your favorite online retailer and sign up for ML’s Scratching Post-Intelligencer newsletter.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carole with the late Midnight Louie Jr.
ML III appears in the half-moon window
CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS is the award-winning author of sixty-two novels in the mystery/thriller, women’s fiction, and science fiction/fantasy genres.
She is noted for the long-running Midnight Louie, feline PI, cozy-noir mystery series (Cat in an Alphabet Soup, Cat in an Aqua Storm, Cat on a Blue Monday, etc.) and the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, noir urban fantasy series (Dancing with Werewolves, etc.). Midnight Louie prowls the “slightly surreal” Vegas of today, narrating interlarded chapters in his alley-cat noir voice. Delilah walks the mean streets of a paranormally post-apocalyptic Sin City, fighting supernatural mobsters with Louie’s wile, wit and grit.
Douglas was the first author to make a Sherlockian female character, Irene Adler, a series protagonist, with the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes, and the first woman to write a Holmes spin-off series. Her award nominations run from the Agatha to the Nebula, including Lifetime Achievement Awards from RT Book Reviews for Mystery, Suspense, Versatility, and as a Pioneer of Publishing for her groundbreaking multi-genre work. She has won a clowder of Catwriters’ Association first place Muse awards, and is a four-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s Rita award in four different categories.
An award-winning daily newspaper reporter and editor in Minnesota, she moved south to write fiction full-time and was recently inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. She does a mean Marilyn Monroe impersonation, collects vintage clothing and homeless cats, and enjoys Zumba, but has never danced with werewolves. (That she knows of.)
Visit Carole at www.carolenelsondouglas.com
https://www.facebook.com/CaroleNelsonDouglas
Twitter @CNDouglasWriter
I’d love to hear from you at cdouglas@catwriter.com
The Bestselling MIDNIGHT LOUIE Feline PI series
“…just about everything you might want in a mystery; among other things, glitzy Las Vegas…real characters, suspense, a tough puzzle… On top of it all, a fine sense of humor and some illuminating social commentary.”
—The Prime Suspect
“Las Vegas’ feline detective extraordinary returns…an excellent follow-up…and Louie is an irresistible combination of Nathan Detroit and Sam Spade. There is plenty of interest here for a lengthy, fun-filled series.”
—Mostly Murder
Cat in an Alphabet Soup [formerly Catnap]…Cat in an Aqua Storm [formerly Pussyfoot]…Cat on a Blue Monday…Cat in a Crimson Haze…Cat in a Diamond Dazzle…Cat with an Emerald Eye…Cat in a Flamingo Fedora…Cat in a Golden Garland…Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt…Cat in an Indigo Mood…Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit…Cat in a Kiwi Con…Cat in a Leopard Spot…Cat in a Midnight Choir…Cat in a Neon Nightmare…Cat in an Orange Twist…Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit…Cat in a Quicksilver Caper…Cat in a Red Hot Rage…Cat in a Sapphire Slipper…Cat in a Topaz Tango…Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme…Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta…Cat in a White Tie and Tails…Cat in an Alien X-Ray…Cat in a Yellow Spotlight…Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit…(forthcoming) Cat in an Alphabet Endgame
ALSO BY CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS
“Her fine Sherlockian novels and her Midnight Louie books have turned her into a genuine mystery star. Pick one up and you’ll see why.”
—Ed Gorman, Mystery Scene magazine
Enjoy Sherlock Holmes, historical mystery, and adventure? Try the globe-trotting New York Times Notable IRENE ADLER Series featuring the only woman to outwit Holmes doing it again…
Good Night, Mr. Holmes
The Adventuress [previously Good Morning, Irene]
A Soul of Steel [previously Irene at Large]
Another Scandal in Bohemia [previously Irene’s Last Waltz]
Chapel Noir and Castle Rouge: The Jack the Ripper duology
Femme Fatale
Spider Dance
Urban fantasy your favorite flavor of fiction? You might want to join DELILAH STREET, Paranormal Investigator, rounding up romance and rogue supernaturals in post-monster apocalypse Sin City
(See the Delilah titles’ namesake cocktails)
Dancing with Werewolves
Brimstone Kiss
Vampire Sunrise
Silver Zombie
Virtual Virgin
Neon Noir [anthology]
Stories and Novellas in eBook
Alice Holds the Cards
Fruit of the Tomb [Louie]
Monster Mash [Delilah]
Neon Noir [Delilah, 5 stories]
Once Upon a Midnight Noir: [also in print: Delilah & Louie]
The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes [Irene]
Christmas Stories
The Rakehell’s Christmas Angel
A Wall Street Christmas Carol [including SCROGGED]
SCROGGED: A Cyber Christmas Carol
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.