Purrder, She Wrote
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCat detectives. Quirky heroines. Nefarious small towns with dark secrets. Dana LaCoco and Sunshine LeMontree take a deep dive into the world of cozy cat mysteries to explore the tangled plots and eccentric characters of the genre’s biggest hits.
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Episodes
Episode 17: Revenge at its Felinest
May 02, 2019 17:58 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBPurrder, She Wrote returns! To kick off Season 2, Sunshine and Dana return to where it all began with the 30th (!) installment in Patricia Fry's Klepto Cat series. This episode is packed with ancient curses, rednecks, and a nearly lethal dose of mansplaining! Yikes!
Episode 16: Curiosity Killed the Cat
April 28, 2018 21:39 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBCats getting drunk. Wizard mafia. Cozy conspiracy bunkers. And one super chill, unflappable heroine. In Episode 16, Dana and Sunshine discover they have no talent for accents, but a lot to say about this cozy mystery by T.H. Hunter.
Episode 15: Office Cat Libs
April 13, 2018 18:17 - 15 minutes - 14.8 MBIn this mini episode, we make our colleagues fill out some Cat Libs. Turns out we have some cozy mystery writers in our midst!
Episode 14: Curiosity Thrilled the Cat
April 03, 2018 17:20 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBIn this episode, Dana and Sunshine finally find the strong female murderer they've been looking for. We talk girl gangs, magic cats, weaponized cinnamon rolls and unfortunate references to Matt Lauer in this wild read.
Episode 13: Kitten-sized mini episode!
March 14, 2018 16:31 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBWe've been busy (sadly with non-cozy cat related things), but we wanted to share a kitten-sized episode. Tune in for the tale of our first cozy failure, life updates and help us pick our next read!
Episode 12: Murder Past Due
January 31, 2018 16:54 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBWe're back in cozy territory with Murder Past Due, a book about paternity scandals, inheritance fraud, and bringing your cat to a funeral. Despite a promising premise, Sunshine and Dana were underwhelmed by this college town cozy.
Episode 11: Murder at the Art Gallery
December 21, 2017 22:18 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBA hard-boiled cop reincarnated as a cat teams up with a tarot card-reading housewife to solve a murder. What could go wrong? EVERYTHING. Dana and Sunshine lament the terrible grammar, buckwild plot, and general insanity of the book that broke their brains.
Episode 10: Cat Libs
December 05, 2017 21:03 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBYou've heard of Mad Libs, but Cat Libs? Dana and Sunshine attempt to write their own cozy mystery on the fly. Tune in for ancient burial grounds, Burt Shmeynolds, and martial law!
Episode 9: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
November 17, 2017 20:30 - 55 minutes - 25.7 MBThis week, we travel back to the swingin' 60s to read The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. The hero cat, mustache with ESP, and sendup of the snooty art world made us smile. The horribly antiquated gender roles made us want to smash the patriarchy even harder!
Episode 8: The Cat From Outer Space
November 03, 2017 20:00 - 39 minutes - 18.5 MBDisclaimer: we're not astrophysicists, but we're pretty sure The Cat From Outer Space defies ALL scientific logic. This is our first episode devoted to a cat film, and based on the quality of the film we watched, it may be our last. Listen in for psychic space cats, fraud, and good old fashioned workplace sexism!
Episode 7: The Cats That Surfed the Web
October 20, 2017 13:40 - 52 minutes - 24.4 MBEpisode 7 tackles the monstrous, garbage-fire "protagonist" of The Cats That Surfed the Web. Tune in for savage burns, millennials who still use answering machines and the unmysterious mystery of who killed Gary in the basement.
Episode 6: Much Ado About Muffin
October 06, 2017 16:12 - 44 minutes - 20.7 MBIn Episode 6, Dana and Sunshine discuss Victoria Hamilton's Much Ado About Muffin. Prepare yourselves for muffins! Murder! And...meth?!
Episode 5: Pussy and Her Language
September 15, 2017 12:00 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MBIn Episode 5, we discuss the obscure pamphlet titled, "Pussy and Her Language," from 1895. Tune in for wild back stories, Victorian Era BuzzFeed articles, cat illuminati, theories on the divine origin of Cat language and more.
Episode 4: A Hiss-tory of Magic
September 01, 2017 16:02 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBEpisode 4 is full of psychic cats, magical mansplainers, and juicy high school drama. Join Dana and Sunshine as they read Harper Lin's A Hiss-tory of Magic.
Episode 3: CatCon
August 18, 2017 00:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MBIn this episode, Dana and Sunshine talk about their adventures at CatCon 2017. Tune in to hear about terrible cat-icatures, fantastic cat activists and more.
Episode 2: Purrfect Murder
August 04, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBTalking cats! Irresponsible journalism! Mob rule? This week, Sunshine and Dana dive into Nic Saint's masterpiece, Purrfect Murder.
Episode 1: Catnapped
July 20, 2017 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBDana and Sunshine head to Hammond, USA to discuss the perils of unmitigated cat breeding, whirlwind proposals and the beguiling felines of Patricia Fry's novel, Catnapped.