REVIEW: Meow – Catnip Assassins #1 – Skye Mackinnon

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Assassin. Private Investigator. Cat shifter.

Kat is used to killing people, but for a blank cheque, she's willing to do the opposite and help solve a murder - even though it sounds boring as hell. That is, until she finds some body parts in her fridge, makes friends with the neighbourhood cats and realises there may be an assassin better than her…

Suddenly, things have become purrfectly exciting.

Kat, once a slave to the pack, is now running her own company thanks to her benefactor. She has named the company Meow which fits since she is a panther shifter. When she was with the pack, she was trained to be an assassin and grew to love it, now she can take the jobs she wants.

When a new client comes in asking for Kat to find the killer of his brother something she is not equipped to do she is ready to say no until she is handed a blank check. Now she must investigate the murder and discover why the man was killed. Her investigations will lead her to danger, investigating an organization that leads to heinous crimes resulting in death.

Everything changes when cats begin to congregate outside the mansion looking for food which Kat happily provides. Then she has a brainstorm to use the cats as spies, no one pays attention to cats, and they can get into places even in her panther form she cannot get into. They understand her in her human form and when she shifts, she can communicate with them.

When she goes to check on a house where one of the criminal’s lives, she is knocked out. She awakens in a room with no idea where she is and why she is still alive until her kidnapper shows up. Lennox a man she knew from the pack but who escaped promising to come back for her but never did. Lennox has answers but is not ready to reveal them just as Kat won’t reveal her use of the cats.

Each time Kat gets close to the answer she finds herself father away. Something evil is going on, something even an assassin can’t look away from. As much as the investigation is proceeding, she finds it all boring and can’t wait to return to killing. She was made to be an assassin not a private investigator.

Her army of cat spies has proved worthy of all the food and treats that Kat supplies following suspects and reporting back everything they learn.

This book was a first for me a panther shifter assassin with cat spies. The book was a fast read and never boring. Although there were some funny incidents in the book overall the book was filled with sadness.

The book ended with a cliffhanger, something I hate but, in some cases, i.e. this book, it didn’t upset me, it just made me want to continue reading the series.