I'm pleased to welcome Soup to Cozy Up With Kathy. You can find Soup on the pages of the Soup the Paranormal Kitten Mystery series. Murder at Meadows Lake Clubhouse is the first book in the series and was released last month.
Murder at Meadows Lake Clubhouse Character Guest Post
By Soup the Supernatural Kitten
Meow! I’m Soup, the supernatural kitten from Murder at Meadows Lake Clubhouse. It’s a pleasure to be here to share an excerpt of my witty dialogue from the book. Before I do, I’d like to explain what a supernatural kitten is and how I became one. I was brought back from the dead by Rose Fairchild’s deceased husband and cat. They didn’t actually bring me back, but they instructed me on my mission which was to become Rose’s guide in her new life after she moved to a community in South Carolina called Meadows Lake.
After I was given my second chance (and don’t mistake this for one of my nine lives), I received special powers to help me help Rose. These included a human brain (although I still have cat instincts), the ability to talk and teleport, and a sixth-sense (that isn’t as strong as Rose’s who experiences visions). I’ll also remain a six-month-old kitten even though I was saved when I was six-weeks old.
Maybe I explain this better in this excerpt from the book when I introduce myself to Rose after she’s moved into her house and her neighbor brought over a tuna casserole for her. It’s not the first time she’s seen me because I’d also appeared on the community’s website and gave her a glimpse when she toured the place before making her decision to move. It’s also after she had a dream about her dead husband, Harvey, who told her he was sending a guide to her:
Digging into the tuna casserole, Rose took a bite. It was tasty. She was about to have another forkful when a young girl’s voice interrupted her. “Can I have some of that?”
She hadn’t locked the door, but she didn’t expect someone to come barging in. It wasn’t Lucy. The voice sounded younger, like a child’s. She turned in the direction of the speaker, but no one was there. Then she saw the orange flash again. But this time, the kitten didn’t run. It jumped up onto the table and faced her.
“Excuse my manners. I know I shouldn’t be up here, but I wanted to get your attention. May I have a bite?”
Rose nearly fainted. The ginger cat was talking. How could that be? Maybe the move had been too much for her, and she was hallucinating.
“Cat got your tongue? Sorry. I should introduce myself so we can meet officially.” The cat held out her paw. “I’m Soup, your guide to Meadows Lake.”
“Guide?” Rose recalled that Harvey said a guide would be helping her, but she never imagined a talking kitten.
The cat drew back its paw. “I see you’re not prepared for me. Let me explain. Your husband, Harvey, and your cat, Moxie, gave me a second chance. Cats are supposed to have nine lives, but I didn’t even have one. I died when I was drowned as a wee kitten shortly after I’d finished nursing my mom. My brothers and sisters were drowned with me. I’m not sure about my mother, but I’m afraid she suffered the same fate.”
Rose was so much in shock that she hardly listened to the kitten calling herself Soup’s story.
“I know this sounds weird to you but trust me. I’m here for you. I was already special, as red tabbies—or ginger cats—are generally male. Only twenty percent are female. But after I died, I was brought back with special powers, a human brain, and the ability to talk. I’ll also stay a kitten forever, but luckily, I returned at six months old instead of six weeks. I can still be hurt and die because I’m not a ghost.”
I hope you enjoyed that excerpt. You might also like to read the interview I did on Sneaky the Library Cat’s blog. Check it out here: https://wp.me/p7XcB0-1ss.
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Murder at Meadows Lake Clubhouse (Soup the Supernatural Kitten Mysteries) by Debbie De Louise
About Murder at Meadows Lake Clubhouse
Cozy Mystery 1st in Series
Setting - South Carolina
Publisher: Independently Published (March 25, 2025)
Paperback: 254 pages
Widow and retired realtor, Rose Fairchild, is gifted with a sixth sense. Moving from Long Island to a community in South Carolina, Rose is reluctant to leave the house she shared with her husband Harvey and her cat Moxie before they died, but a strange vision of a disappearing kitten on the community’s website intrigues her.
When Rose arrives in the Meadows Lake community, she meets two singles her age: Grant, a real estate agent and widower, and Blake, the divorced Fallsview sheriff. She also meets the orange cat of her vision who introduces herself as Soup and claims to be sent by Rose’s husband as a guide for her new life.
Soon after, a murder takes place at the clubhouse. The victim is the restaurant cook who wasn’t well liked, and Rose becomes involved in the sheriff’s investigation, only to receive a written threat to stop snooping around. Will her visions help her solve the case... or will she need help from her supernatural kitten?
About Debbie De Louise

Debbie De Louise is an award-winning author and a retired reference librarian. She is a member of Sisters-in-Crime, International Thriller Writers, and the Cat Writers’ Association. She writes two cozy mystery series, the Cobble Cove Mysteries and Buttercup Bend Mysteries. She’s also written a paranormal romance, three standalone mysteries, a time-travel novel, and a collection of cat poems. Her stories and poetry appear in over a dozen anthologies. Debbie also writes articles for cat magazines. She recently moved from Long Island to South Carolina, where she lives with her husband, daughter, and three cats. Learn more about Debbie and her books by visiting her website at https://debbiedelouise.com
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