Ghost Cat Mystery (Tim Myers) Books in Order

The Ghost Cat Mysteries are a cozy mystery series with a small supernatural twist. They follow Christy Blake, who works at, and then becomes tied more deeply to, a secondhand shop called Memories and Dreams. After a violent robbery takes the life of her cat Midnight and her boss, Christy's grief becomes the doorway into the central idea of the series, because Midnight comes back as a ghost cat and refuses to leave the case alone.

That could easily sound silly, but the books handle it in a gentle, cozy way. Midnight is not there to turn the series into horror. He is there to give Christy clues, nudge her attention in the right direction, and keep a thread of affection running through the investigations. Christy also has her living cat, Shadow, plus friends and allies who help ground the stories.

Loss is part of the appeal here.

What makes the first book work is that Christy is not treating the mystery like a game. She has genuinely lost something she loved, and the return of Midnight, in ghost form, turns the investigation into something both emotional and strange. The second book keeps that structure going when another death that seems accidental starts to look much less so, and the supernatural side of the story reaches a little farther.

The secondhand shop is a good cozy setting because it naturally brings in old belongings, old histories, and people who value things for reasons they may not fully explain. That creates the right mood for a series where the past keeps hanging around, sometimes literally. The books are short, readable, and much lighter than the premise might suggest.

If you want a cozy mystery that keeps its community feel but adds one ghost cat to the investigation, this is the place to start. It is still a cozy first. It just happens to have a feline witness who is harder to ignore than most.