Thank you to Net Galley for the advance ecopy of this title. Kathleen is busy planning her wedding to Marcus when an art curator turns up dead in her library. Kathleen manages to unravel this mystery with some help from a character in a previous installment. As usual, all is tied up in a neat little bow with the help of the Magical Cats!

Kathleen is in the middle of planning her wedding when she finds an old familiar face dead in the library. Her beloved library's safety is put at risk when they realize that the person was trying to steal a painting from the library. Obviously Kathleen has to figure out what happened while also finishing up the preparations for her upcoming nuptials.

I enjoyed this book a lot. I thought it was nice to get blasts from the past. I don't think this is a spoiler because I don't know if it is true but I thought this felt like a series closer. I hope it isn't true and that we get to see these characters again but it definitely felt like the author was wrapping loose ends. The only criticism I felt was that some of the character relationships felt rushed and not as earned as others. I was surprised at the end of the book both pleasantly but also just like "oh what?" in one part because of the character relationships. Overall I would recommend but I would also recommend starting with book one since there's a lot of payoff of the whole series in this book.

Thank you to NetGalley, Berkley Publishing Group | Berkley, and Sofie Kelly for letting me read an advance reader copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

Sometimes, a book just feels as if it finishes a series. I really can’t say that the sixteenth Magical Cats mystery, Sofie Kelly’s Furever After, is the last book. There’s no indication it is, except the wedding seems to sum so much up, and the concluding line is, “We were going to live happily ever after.” We’ll see what happens.

Library director Kathleen Paulson has less than two months until her wedding to police detective Marcus Gordon. Now, she finds herself juggling wedding preparations with a mystery after she finds the body of Will Redfern in the library. Will was the original contractor for the library renovations, but he went to jail after assaulting Kat. Now, she wants to know why he was back in the library, and why it appears he was trying to remove a painting from the wall.

No one has a good word for the dead man, and that bothers Kat, that no one in town seems sad about his death. She had been willing to give the man a second chance, and now she can’t. So, she lets Marcus know she’s going to ask questions about his death, and his connection to the library painting.

Kathleen didn’t think the painting was anything special but a local artist and an art history expert suspect it was part of an art heist from the home of a wealthy collector about six years earlier. When someone breaks into Kat’s house, she knows she’s on the right track.

Like the residents, I had no sympathy for the victim. However, another storyline appealed to me. Riley and Duncan Hollister are two siblings whose father was in prison, and grandfather is a local troublemaker. But, Kat, Marcus, and other people take an interest in the two. Furever After is a mystery, and Kat’s magical cats, Owen and Hercules, put in their appearances. However, it’s also a story of chosen family, hugs, and friends, elements that make the second storyline so appealing. It’s a tear jerker with a lot of love, the best part of the book.

A murder,, an art heist and a wedding all add to the fun and suspense of this latest entry in the Magical Cats series. The library and its employees play major roles along with Hercules and Owen, those clever and helpful cats. This series stands the test of time and is a recommended read.

Let's put this very interesting. We end up with a blast from the past who I thought was gone for good. Of course like all basis because amazing characters and you can't resist when in Hercules. Usually I can figure out the mystery well before they enter the book but this one had a lot of plot twists and turns. Very enjoyable. Can't wait for the next book.