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Sofie Ryan is the pseudonym of Canadian bestselling author Darlene Ryan.

She is the New York Times bestselling author of the cozy mystery series, Second Chance Cat Mystery.

She also writes under the pen name Sofie Kelly, as well as her real name Darlene Ryan.

Although she has been passionate about books ever since she found out that letters made words, and words translated into engrossing tales, Sofie decided to pursue her education first before venturing into fiction writing.

As such, she holds degrees in Biology and Education respectively.

In as much as she is continuously captivated by theories on the origin of the universe, Sofie is convinced that her true calling was to be an author, rather than a scientist or a teacher.

She worked on radio as an entertainment columnist, a consumer reporter, a news reader and a copywriter before becoming an accomplished author.

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Genre: Cozy Mystery

Canada

Pseudonym: Sofie Ryan, Sofie Kelly

Website: https://sofiekelly.com/

Omnibus Books

  1. Two Tall Tails (2016)

Second Chance Cat Mystery

  1. The Whole Cat and Caboodle (2014)
  2. Buy a Whisker (2015)
  3. A Whisker of Trouble (2016)
  4. Telling Tails (2017)
  5. The Fast and the Furriest (2018)
  6. No Escape Claws (2019)
  7. Claw Enforcement (2020)
  8. Undercover Kitty (2021)
  9. Totally Pawstruck (2022)
Omnibus Books

Detailed book overview

Omnibus Books

Two Tall Tails

This purr-fect collection includes a Magical Cats Mystery novella and a Second Chance Cat Mystery novella. 

The Cat Burglar: A Magical Cats Mystery Novella

Kathleen Paulson has her hands full in Mayville Heights, Minnesota, running the public library, and taking care of her two uncanny cats, Hercules and Owen. Kathleen’s good friend Maggie says items are being stolen from the local artists’ co-op. She doesn’t want to call the police, because the main suspects are all close friends. Luckily, Kathleen and her faithful felines are there to put their paws on the truth!

No More Pussyfooting Around: A Second Chance Cat Mystery Novella

Sarah Grayson lives in charming North Harbor, Maine, where she owns the Second Chance shop and sells beautifully refurbished items, but she’s also given a second chance to black cat Elvis. Sarah and her elderly friend Edmund Harris are having some issues with the nephew of a neighbor. With the neighbor recovering from a suspicious fall in the hospital, her nephew is being openly hostile and suspiciously secretive. Is he just a pain in the neck, or actually a threat to his aunt? Sarah and Elvis are on the case.

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2016
Ebook: B01IAUG2OO
Publisher: InterMix

Second Chance Cat Mystery

The Whole Cat and Caboodle

Sarah Grayson is the happy proprietor of Second Chance, a charming shop in the oceanfront town of North Harbor, Maine. At the shop, she sells used items that she has lovingly refurbished and repurposed. But her favorite pet project so far has been adopting a stray cat she names Elvis.

Elvis has seen nine lives—and then some. The big black cat with a scar across his nose turned up at a local bar when the band was playing the King of Rock and Roll’s music and hopped in Sarah’s truck. Since then, he’s been her constant companion and the furry favorite of everyone who comes into the store.

But when Sarah’s elderly friend Maddie is found with the body of a dead man in her garden, the kindly old lady becomes the prime suspect in the murder. Even Sarah’s old high school flame, investigator Nick Elliot, seems convinced that Maddie was up to no good. So it’s up to Sarah and Elvis to clear her friend’s name and make sure the real murderer doesn’t get a second chance.

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1410473561
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Buy a Whisker

Things have been quiet in the coastal town of North Harbor, Maine, since Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, solved their first murder. Sarah is happy running Second Chance, the shop where she sells lovingly refurbished and repurposed items. But then she gets dragged into a controversy over developing the waterfront. Most of the residents—including Sarah—are for it, but there is one holdout—baker Lily Carter.

So when Lily is found murdered in her bakery, it looks like somebody wanted to remove the only obstacle to the development. But Sarah soon discovers that nothing is as simple as it seems. Now, with the help of her cat’s uncanny ability to detect a lie, Sarah is narrowing down the suspects. But can she collar the culprit before the ruthless killer pounces again?

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1410484277
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
A Whisker of Trouble

Spring has come to charming North Harbor, Maine, and with the new season comes a new haul for Second Chance, the shop where Sarah Grayson sells lovingly refurbished and repurposed items. Sarah is turning her keen eye to the estate of collector Edison Hall, hoping for fabulous finds for Second Chance—but when her rescue cat Elvis discovers a body in the kitchen, everything goes paws up.

The body belongs to an appraiser who had been hired to check out Edison’s wine collection. When Edison’s sister shows up at Second Chance, she hires Sarah’s friends—the kooky and charismatic trio of ladies who call themselves Charlotte’s Angels and work out of the shop—to solve the murder, Sarah knows she and Elvis are only going to get deeper into the case.

But as it becomes a cat and mouse game of lies, cons, cheats, and family squabbles, can Elvis and Sarah claw their way to the truth before the killer slinks away forever?

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1410494559
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Telling Tails

When Sarah Grayson opened a secondhand shop in the quaint town of North Harbor, Maine, she was expecting peace and quiet. Then she was adopted by a rescue cat named Elvis and a kooky trio of senior sleuths known as Charlotte’s Angels. Now she has nine lives worth of excitement...

Sarah’s friend and employee Rose is delivering a customer’s purchase when the quick errand becomes a deadly escapade. Rose arrives just in time to see the customer murdered by his wife, but before she can call the police, she is knocked out cold. When she wakes up, no one believes her, especially after the woman claims her husband is very much alive and has left her for someone else—and has a text message and empty bank account to prove it.

Despite her convincing story, Sarah is sure something is fishy—and it’s not Elvis’s kitty treats. Sarah, Elvis, and the Angels are determined to unravel this mysterious yarn, before the feral killer pounces again...

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-1410498670
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
The Fast and the Furriest

Sarah Grayson owns Second Chance, a shop that sells lovingly refurbished items, in the charming town of North Harbor, Maine. But she couldn't run the store without the help of her right-hand man, Mac--or her dashing rescue cat, Elvis.

Mac's life before North Harbor has always been a little bit mysterious, but it becomes a lot more intriguing when a woman from his past shows up in town, and then turns up dead. Suspicion falls on Mac, but Sarah--and Elvis--know he can't be the killer, and they hope they can prove his innocence quick as a whisker.

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1432844196
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
No Escape Claws

It's fall in North Harbor, Maine, where Sarah owns a charming secondhand shop and sells lovingly refurbished items of all kinds. The shop is always bustling--and not just because a quirky team of senior-citizen detectives works out of it and manages to get in even more trouble than Sarah's rough-and-tumble rescue cat, Elvis.

A cold case heats up when young Mallory Pearson appears at the shop. Mallory's father is in prison for negligence after her stepmother's mysterious death, but Mallory believes he is innocent and asks the in-house detectives to take on the case. With Sarah and Elvis lending a paw, the detectives decide to try to give Mallory's father a second chance of his own.

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1432863470
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Claw Enforcement

Sarah Grayson owns a delightful secondhand shop in the small town of North Harbor, Maine, where she and her rescue cat, Elvis, are always finding themselves up to their whiskers in trouble. With the help of a quirky group of senior citizens—who call themselves Charlotte’s Angels and work out of the store—they solve crimes both new and vintage.

Local squabbles about property development have the town in quite a state of drama—and it seems like someone may even be upset enough to kill. When a local man involved in the real estate quagmire falls over dead at a reception to celebrate the harbor front’s redevelopment, Sarah gets roped in to investigate by her own IT expert, Mr. P., who has long known the victim’s stepfather. Between Sarah, Elvis and Charlotte’s Angels, the killer is sure to have claws for concern.

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 978-1432883751
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Undercover Kitty

Sarah and Elvis can always be found at a charming secondhand shop in the village of North Harbor, Maine. Despite the small-town setting, the daring duo often find themselves wrapped up in murder, but luckily they have help--a quirky group of senior citizens runs an amateur detective agency called Charlotte's Angels out of the store.

The Angels are hired to look into who is sabotaging cat shows in the state, and they decide the best way to do that is to send Elvis the cat undercover as a contestant. But then one of the cat show volunteers is murdered just before the latest competition, and Sarah and the Angels have to catch a killer in two shakes of a cat's tail!

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-1432894375
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Totally Pawstruck

Although Sarah Grayson is often tending to the contained chaos of her delightful secondhand store in North Harbor, Maine, plus dealing with the quirky personality of her rescue cat, Elvis, she still takes an occasional night off. But her evening out comes to an abrupt end when Sarah discovers Stella Hall, a member of the library board, standing over a body in the street.

Although Stella admits that she and the victim had fought about several things including library funding, she is adamant that she is innocent and the real killer is on the loose. Sarah is eager to help, but even with the assistance of Charlotte’s Angels, the senior citizen detectives who rent out part of her shop, there is still a vast amount of circumstantial evidence linking Stella to the crime.

The odds may be stacked against them, but Sarah and Elvis, along with the Angels, will work hard to check out the suspects and catch a killer.

Author: Sofie Ryan
First Release: 2022
Ebook: B093YRDWJS
Publisher: Berkley