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Oct. 25, 2022
Ruth J. Hartman
Biography
Ruth J. Hartman spends her days herding cats and her nights spinning mysterious tales. She, her husband, and their cats love to spend time curled up in their recliners watching old Cary Grant movies. Well, the cats sit in the people's recliners. Not that the cats couldn't get their own furniture. They just choose to shed on someone else's.
Ruth, a left-handed, cat-herding, farmhouse-dwelling writer uses her sense of humor as she writes tales of lovable, klutzy women who seem to find trouble without even trying.
Ruth's husband and best friend, Garry, reads her manuscripts, rolls his eyes at her weird story ideas, and loves her despite her insistence all of her books have at least one cat in them.
Ruth, a left-handed, cat-herding, farmhouse-dwelling writer uses her sense of humor as she writes tales of lovable, klutzy women who seem to find trouble without even trying.
Ruth's husband and best friend, Garry, reads her manuscripts, rolls his eyes at her weird story ideas, and loves her despite her insistence all of her books have at least one cat in them.
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Where to buy in print
Series
Bookshop Kitties Mysteries
by Ruth J. Hartman
Dial M for Meow
Murder She Meowed
When children’s book author, Christy Bailey, receives a call from her aunt Betty to help out at her bookshop, she drops everything to go. Christy packs up her two cats—Milton and Pearl, the stars of her children's mystery books—and leaves busy Philadelphia for tiny Green Meadow, Indiana. The timing of the call is perfect, as Christy’s letch of an ex-boyfriend has just cleaned out her savings, leaving Christy with a pile of unpaid bills and a desire to start over. And what better place to do that than a charming small town in Middle America?
But when Christy reaches her aunt's bookshop, instead of small town hospitality she finds a dead body! Even worse, her aunt is passed out in the corner, hands covered in blood. Can Christy and her kitties find the real killer? Or have they framed her aunt in the purrrrrfect crime?
Dial M for Meow
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Murder She Meowed
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Books
Murder She Meowed
by Ruth J. Hartman
Series: Bookshop Kitties Mysteries, Book 2.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 72,020.
Language:
English.
Published: February 6, 2024
by
Gemma Halliday Publishing.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
Children's book author Christy Bailey is thrilled that her aunt Betty is finally marrying the man of her dreams! But when Christy finds her friend and wedding caterer's ex-husband dead just after the reception, she is once again thrust into a murder investigation! Can she prove her friend is innocent and track down the real killer...or will this be one wedding without a happy ending?
Dial M for Meow
by Ruth J. Hartman
Series: Bookshop Kitties Mysteries, Book 1.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 75,700.
Language:
English.
Published: January 10, 2023
by
Gemma Halliday Publishing.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
When children’s book author, Christy Bailey, receives a call from her aunt to help out at her bookshop, the last thing she expects to find is Aunt Betty standing over a dead body! Now Christy and her two helpful cats must find out who murdered her aunt's best frenemy in the purrrrfect crime... before Aunt Betty ends up behind bars!