Mollie Hunt: Crazy Cat Lady Mysteries and more

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day. I was out choppin’ cotton and my brother was balin’ hay…

Bobbie Gentry 1969 Today is June third.

Every year, I post about the enigmatic ballad sung by Bobbie Gentry back in the sixties. It’s been more than 50 years since she produced the haunting song that had a whole generation won...

We don’t know when he was born.

Tyler came to the Oregon Humane Society as a long-time stray. The docs there judged him to be 18 by his rotting teeth, which they promptly removed. When I adopted him and took him to my wonderful vet, she judged him to be more likely around the 14-year mark, so birth year 2003 is what we used from then on.

We adopted Tyler on June 1, 201...

Ghost cat Soji draws Camelia into an age-old web of secrets when a body turns up in the long-abandoned house on the hill.

Decades ago, Ida Jacks died a tragic death in her old ancestral home. Since then, the place has stood empty, just another of Ocean Cove’s moldering lan...

Clarence was born three years ago today!

I adopted kitten Clarence after fostering him. He was only five months old.

I couldn’t believe I’d adopted a kitten to join my other two cats, let alone one with a missing leg. How would it work? Would his amputation be a problem in my big, two-story house? Would the cats get along? Will I live long enough to see this through? B...

I didn’t know how to spell “sheriff” when I began writing my first mystery.

After all, it wasn’t a word that came up in my job as a medical records scanner. I made other spelling and grammar mistakes as well. Lie verses lay; a while vs. awhile; a lot, not alot. I’d had a reasonably good education, but that was a lo...