Is she hitting her stride? Or going nowhere fast?Fresh from a successful undercover operation, scientist/spy-in-training Bree Watson should feel on top of the world. Instead, the ground is shifting under her feet. When her handler abandons her to follow a lead with his sexy ex-partner, Bree must choose between a normal life, or proving her worth as a spy. Not an easy choice, when she factors in:… factors in:
•A police detective’s amorous intentions
•Her handler’s mixed signals
•A teaching post at a university filled with intrigue
•A dead administrator with a sordid past
•A timid tiger and her tenacious trainer—both being framed for murder
Combined with fanatic football fans, beatnik poets, an orphaned monkey, a demanding boss, quirky colleagues, and her angry cat, the result may be a recipe for disaster.
Can she take the heat? Or will she get burned?
“A plot full of twists. . . a super smart sleuth. . .a smidgen of romance. Cupcake baking scientist Dr. Bree Watson will lure the readers in with her intelligence. and capture them with her charm.” Denise Swanson, New York Times Best Selling Author
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Loved Bree and all the other characters she interacts with. So much action and so many twists to this storyline. No one should ever frame a tiger and its trainer, especially this pair. I worked at a university and thoroughly enjoyed all the aspects that came together for this mystery. Football and our live Husky were very popular around our campus. The storyline had me glued to the end and loved when it all came together. Very well done.
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Is Matthew Tugood strictly a fauxmance or the real thing? Undercover operative Sascha seems to want to dig her heels in – for several months.
Only a fool lets true love slip away. So is the domineering detective the real deal, or just a distraction?
Lots of action for Bree using her detective instincts and her chemistry and teaching skills while Matthew is abroad
I hope they sort things out – for the monkey, the tiger, and the Russian chicklet need sirting – aling with their own hearts
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Bree is back from an undercover job and is feeling great. She now, however,
needs to choose between a normal life and life as a spy. Which one will
she choose. She is fending off the unwanted intentions of a cop. With
all of this going on she, naturally, stubles upon a dead body and needs to
solve this murder before others end up dead.
I am enjoying this series so much! Bree is a force to be reckoned with and I found that the situations the author has her getting involved in are different and original. The touch of romance for Bree added just the right touch. I look forward to more books in the future.
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Just when Bree thinks she is coming into her own Matthew her handler leaves her on her own and now its sink or swim time and in my opinion Bree does an awesome job. Bree goes undercover as a professor but finds another body but may also find a boyfriend too.
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Twisty and smart, this book has all the things I enjoy most in a mystery. A brilliant heroine who’s just as human as the rest of us. A mystery that kept me glued to the pages and kept me guessing. And also some low-level romantic entanglements. Once again, I was slightly frustrated with Bree when I thought she was overlooking clues that I picked up on. But the story itself was so entertaining that even during my moments of exasperation, I was so caught up in everything that was going on that they were easy to move beyond. I think I’m a fan of Bree’s for life and I’m already anxious to dive into the next in the series.
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In the third book in the series, Bree is on her own. Matthew is overseas with an undercover agent he worked with previously. Bree ends up being sent to fill in for a chemistry professor at a local University. While there she gets involved with another murder. She works with Detective O’Neil to solve this one and their relationship gets a bit closer even though Bree feels more passion with Matthew. I enjoyed the mystery and using the clues provided to figure out who the culprit was. I got a little annoyed that Bree is still unsure where she stands with Matthew and if he is interested in her or just likes that she is useful on the assignments they work. I feel at her age, she needs to just ask him and then decide if she wants to pursue a personal relationship with Matthew, James or no one.
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Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
The Tiger’s Tale is the third book of the Undercover Cat Series by Kelle Z. Riley. My first foray into the Undercover Cat series, I found this book to be a delightful cozy mystery to curl up with. I was glad to be able to treat this novel as a standalone, but I’m sure a reader would have an easier time connecting with the characters if the series was read in order.
In The Tiger’s Tale, we meet up with Bree in Thailand at the end of a mission. Matthew, Bree’s handler, is off gallivanting about with a former partner leaving Bree to her own devices back home with a tiger cub and young Thai student, Ning, in tow. A contract position takes Bree from the company to teaching at the University where she manages to stumble into a murder mystery. Though Bree is described as a spy-in-training, the plotline in this novel put her closer to amateur sleuth with just a side of spy-craft.
Riley includes incredible detail throughout her novel and a few times the descriptions extend to something entirely mundane and not story-related, like the oatmeal being steel-cut. However, even with the detailed descriptions, I didn’t feel as though the story was bogged down. I suspect these vivid descriptions aided her efforts to keep me on the edge of my seat, wondering if my guess as to the identity of the murderer was correct. I was thrilled to be right and even more so because Riley did such a great job weaving complex characters into her story.
My favorite characters include Sherlock, the cantankerous cat, and Grant is quickly endearing himself with his laidback surfer attitude. I felt like I learned more about him than I did other reoccurring characters (think Matthew, James, and Shoe). Sherlock’s normal cat-antics made me laugh and reminded me of my own two furry beasts.
Though I enjoyed the novel, I rate it as a solid four stars rather than five. I felt like the side-spy mission could have been left out as it didn’t add to the story. Bree continued to pursue a lead to impress her handler but that information never reached him and felt like it just fell to the wayside as the story focused on the murder. It is possible it will be addressed in a future book, but to me, it was just extraneous information for the reader to worry/ponder about while we hunted murders in a collegiate setting.
Bree is keeping herself busy assisting a new transfer student and tiger trainer, Ning. Bree is contracted to teach Chemistry at the university that she has escorted Ning from Thailand to attend. She attempts to keep an eye on Ning and the tiger cub while trying to solve the murder of the school administrator.
There are twists, turns and misdirections. A good combination of science and probing into the mystery.
This is the third in the series. Maybe read as a standalone. I feel Bree should chose the James, detective.
I volunteered to read and review an ARC of this book provided by Curtis Brown Studios and NetGalley. These are my unsolicited opinions.