Jill M. Morgan

From Amazon:

Featuring a lovable cast of crime-solving canines and sly, sleuthing cats, this unique collection of 11 mysteries-written by some of today's most beloved authors, with a little inspiration from their four-legged friends-takes the age-old friendship between pets and their providers and stands it on its fuzzy ear.

For every reader who has a furry friend to curl up with, or just likes to curl up with a good story, this unique volume is a rewarding treat-complete with photos of the authors and their pets. Get ready to meet this mystery menagerie. They're cute, they're cuddly-and they're on the case. Featuring: J.A. Jance, Jan Burke, Jill M. Morgan, Carole Nelson Douglas, Dick Lochte, Marlys Millhiser, Ed Gorman, Jane Haddam, Maxine O'Callaghan, and Gary Phillips.

My Thoughts:

I usually avoid books where the animals talk but this was just too cute to pass up. The stories are all short and well written and rather than have the animals doing things that animals just don't do...the authors just told the stories from the viewpoints of the cats and dogs. You would be amazed at what your pet thinks about your antics.

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I'd bought this book because it had stories in it by Diana Gabaldon and Carole Nelson Douglas. Other than the fact that it makes my collections of their works complete, I should have saved my money.

It's an anthology version of sappy, over-sentimental stories you might find in the Father's Day letters to the editor section of any newspaper, or expanded versions of the sentiments you find on the serious Father's Day cards, and the fact that the stories/memoirs were all written by bestselling authors didn't make them any more interesting.

Frustratingly, even though I only read one story at a time, interspersing other books between the stories, they still ran together--to me, it felt as though they were all written about 2 or maybe 3 fathers. Which could be because the authors are mostly contemporaries. Seems like all the fathers were uncommunicative, but fair, and all of them were into playing baseball. They were all pretty much stereotypical fathers of the 40s and 50s. Ho-hum.

I suppose some of my cynicism comes from my distant relationship with my own father, but I am not a fan of sentimentalism, regardless how it's directed.… (meer)