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Second Chance Cat Mystery Books in Order

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Browse the Second Chance Cat Mystery books by Sofie Ryan in order, with Sarah Grayson summaries, series background, and easy help on where to start.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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13 books

1

The Whole Cat and Caboodle

by Sofie Ryan

2014

Sarah Grayson runs a secondhand shop in North Harbor, Maine, and has recently taken in a scarred stray cat named Elvis. When her friend Maddie is found with a dead man in her garden, Sarah has to clear her name and find the real killer.

2

Buy a Whisker

by Sofie Ryan

2015

A waterfront development fight turns deadly when stubborn baker Lily Carter is murdered in her own shop. Sarah and Elvis dig through town politics, old grudges, and a growing suspect list, with Elvis's lie-sensing instincts giving them an edge.

3

A Whisker of Trouble

by Sofie Ryan

2016

Sarah heads to a wealthy collector's estate hoping to find stock for Second Chance, but Elvis uncovers a body instead. A dead appraiser, a valuable wine collection, and feuding relatives pull Sarah and Charlotte's Angels into another messy case.

4

No More Pussyfooting Around

by Sofie Ryan

2016

Kathleen's friend Maggie thinks someone at the artists' co-op is stealing small but troubling items, and she does not want the police involved. Kathleen and her two magical cats take on the quiet little mystery before suspicion tears friendships apart.

5

Telling Tails

by Sofie Ryan

2017

Rose sees a customer murdered by his wife, then wakes up to find no one believes her story, because the husband seems to have vanished alive. Sarah, Elvis, and the Angels have to untangle a clever setup before the killer strikes again.

6

The Fast and the Furriest

by Sofie Ryan

2018

When a woman from Mac's past comes to North Harbor and ends up dead, suspicion lands squarely on him. Sarah and Elvis start digging into secrets Mac has kept buried, hoping to prove her right-hand man is no killer.

7

No Escape Claws

by Sofie Ryan

2019

A teenager asks Charlotte's Angels to reopen the case that sent her father to prison after his wife's mysterious death. Sarah and Elvis follow the cold trail, trying to decide whether this is an old tragedy or a miscarriage of justice.

8

Claw Enforcement

by Sofie Ryan

2020

A celebration of North Harbor's redevelopment plans ends badly when a young man tied to a proposed nature preserve is poisoned. Sarah, Elvis, and the Angels have to sort out land disputes, local grudges, and a murder with plenty of personal fallout.

9

Undercover Kitty

by Sofie Ryan

2021

Charlotte's Angels take on a case involving sabotage at Maine cat shows, and their boldest move is sending Elvis undercover as a contestant. When a volunteer is murdered, Sarah has to solve the case before the next show turns dangerous.

10

Totally Pawstruck

by Sofie Ryan

2022

Sarah's night off ends when she finds library board member Stella Hall standing over a body in the street. With the evidence piling up against Stella, Sarah, Elvis, and the Angels have to find out who really wanted the victim dead.

11

Scaredy Cat

by Sofie Ryan

2023

A spring house tour leads Sarah into a home with a haunted reputation and a fresh corpse upstairs. When a ghost hunter is found dead, she and Elvis have to sort through local legends, nerves, and very real motives.

12

Fur Love or Money

by Sofie Ryan

2024

While visiting a friend, Sarah and her rescue cat, Elvis, are led to a storm cellar hiding a dead financial adviser long presumed gone. The case pulls in angry investors, buried resentments, and a friend Charlotte's Angels are determined to protect.

13

Cat Got Your Killer

by Sofie Ryan

2025

A new murder on the same stretch of beach where a young woman drowned years earlier sends Sarah back into an old case. With Elvis and Charlotte's Angels helping, she starts to suspect the first death may have sent the wrong man to prison.

Series background & context

The Second Chance Cat Mystery books follow Sarah Grayson in North Harbor, Maine, where she runs Second Chance, a shop built around refurbished and repurposed finds. That store shapes the whole series. People drift in with furniture, odd treasures, local gossip, and personal messes, and Sarah is the kind of person who notices more than she means to. She is practical, kind, and just curious enough to keep stepping into trouble.

Elvis is a huge part of the appeal.

He is Sarah's scarred black rescue cat, and he is much more than a cozy mascot. Elvis has an uncanny gift for sensing when someone is lying, and he has a habit of planting himself exactly where a clue is about to surface. That gives the books a faintly unusual edge, but the series stays grounded. Sarah still has to do the real work, ask the awkward questions, and sort out motives the old-fashioned way.

Then there are Charlotte's Angels.

The senior sleuths who work out of Sarah's shop quickly become the heart of the series. They are loyal, nosy, brave, and a lot sharper than people expect. Sarah spends a good deal of time trying to keep them out of danger, and just as much time relying on them when a case gets complicated. That push and pull gives the books much of their humor, and it also makes North Harbor feel like a community instead of just a murder backdrop.

North Harbor matters. This is a coastal Maine town where bakery feuds, estate sales, waterfront development fights, library politics, cat shows, house tours, and old family grudges can all turn into motive. The crimes grow out of local life rather than dropping in from nowhere. A dead appraiser at a collector's house, a murder tied to a long-ago drowning, a ghost hunter found in a supposedly haunted home, each case feels connected to place, history, and the people who have to keep living there afterward.

The series also has a warm continuing thread. Sarah has a real job, real friends, and relationships that deepen a little more with each book. Mac, her dependable right-hand man at the shop, becomes more important as the series goes on, and the recurring investigators, customers, and neighbors give the books a lived-in feeling. You can read any one of them on its own, but reading in order pays off because the town slowly starts to feel familiar.

These are cozies, but not flimsy ones. The puzzles are fair, the stakes are personal, and the charm comes as much from character as plot. If you like amateur sleuth mysteries with a strong sense of place, a crafty secondhand-shop setting, and a cat who is smarter than half the humans in town, starting with The Whole Cat and Caboodle is an easy choice.

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Richard Reis

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Anurag Ramdasan

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