In Milk Treading, by Nick Smith, cat-journalist Julius Kyle writes a novel called The Kitty Killer Cult.... This is that novel!
In the style of Raymond Chandler, this is hard-boiled detective fiction set in the city of Nub; where cats are king, killer and killed. Tiger Straight, PI, is past his prime, homeless and unemployed until the dame Connie Hant shows up. The PI is back, pawing the mean streets of Nub that he knows so well.
Straight has a new mission - to catch the killers of the broad's brothers. It leads him to the murky, tatty underbelly of Nub, throwing up more kitty deaths and a love for a certain make-up artiste. What are the links between these murders and will Straight and his bug loving side-kick Natasha survive to discover the answers before the edible Inspector Bix Mortis?
For those who know and love Smith's first novel, Milk Treading, this is the book feline crime hack Julius Kyle started to write.
"What this book so adequately expresses (in simple terms, of course) is that the Other, the enemy of which every animal is wary, exists within ourselves as well as beyond our molly-coddling environs. The Kitty Killer Cult supports my own belief that we should one day be able to live in harmony with other species, offering them succour even as we learn from their alternate approaches to life."
The Professor in Milk Treading
"Nothing less than a disgrace," was Bridget's opinion of the book in Milk Treading. "The sort of narrow minded, anti-establishment liberal claptrap that leads to decadence and corruption. Now, I don't hold with the kind of sensationalist violence this author's previous books revel in, but at least they had simple, solid villains to teach youngsters a little patriotism."
