How To Wash A Cat
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (52093)
St. Catharines, Ontario
June 13, 2026 9:01am CST
I bought this book mainly for the title. It is purportedly written by Rebecca M. Hale, but I'm sure Mr Roget and his thesaurus had a lot to do with it... Why use one adjective when you can throw in two or three?
This is designated a mystery novel, but the real mystery is how it got published in the first place. I won't say there are plot holes, just that the thin plot wanders around unfinished thoughts.
This was my second reading of the book, but I'm still not sure I know what happened.
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@BarBaraPrz (52093)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jun
@Wrexxo So do I but the mystery here is "where was the editor?"
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@BarBaraPrz (52093)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Jun
Well, there's a good deal of information about William Leidesdorff and the founding of San Francisco, but some of the characters are ludicrous.
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I hate to read books like that.@BarBaraPrz (52093)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Jun
Yeah, doesn't bear rereading.
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@DaddyEvil (177667)
• United States
14 Jun
A lot of self-published books now were never spellchecked or proofread before being published. When I get one of those, I write a bad review for it on Amazon. *shrug* If the person didn't want an honest review, then they shouldn't have published it.
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@BarBaraPrz (52093)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jun
This is a "Berkley Prime Crime Mystery" put out by the Penguin Group.
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@DaddyEvil (177667)
• United States
14 Jun
@BarBaraPrz OMG! When did they start putting out trash?
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@BarBaraPrz (52093)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jun
It says on the cover "First in a new series" so maybe their agent talked it up 'real good'. 
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@LindaOHio (223789)
• United States
17 Jun
And really good authors get rejected time and time again by publishers. Frustrating.
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