The Cat Who Cracked a Cold Case
ISBN: 9781035043811
Description
The life of Lulu Lewis, a retired police detective, took an unforgettable turn when Conrad first introduced himself to her. Visiting an old friend in Manchester, the pair stumble across a chilling news report about a trail of bodies found across the city that echo a string of cold case murders from Lulu’s past in London.
Reviewed on 21st June 2025
The third Conrad adventure sees our human and feline heroes visiting Manchester, where there’s a lot going on.
Three or four plot lines collide to bring this together, one of them darker and more brutal than I was really looking for in this series, which I’d enjoyed because of the more lighter nature of the mystery in book one.
The narrative remains fun, with lots of in-jokes, although I can’t tell if we’re close to reaching the line with some of them where they are becoming cliches rather than punchlines.
I think though that, like with the second book, I’d love to see Conrad take a bit more of a key role. He steps up in a few places in this novel, but it feels like he’s become more of a gimmick than actually being necessary to the plot.