Caturday Crime Reading Kit

What Is Caturday Crime?

Caturday Crime is the first book in the Cat Rescue Mystery Series by Amanda Flower. The amateur sleuth is Kinley Remington, a twenty-something bank employee in a small Ohio River town who must save a cat rescue and solve a mystery involving an eccentric heiress and a missing necklace.

Caturday Crime Reader Questions

Use these questions to reflect on the story after you read it or to spark discussions in a book club.

Did you enjoy the references to cat care?
Would you like to volunteer for a cat rescue?
Who is your favorite character from Caturday Crime?
Who was your favorite cat from Caturday Crime?
Did you have a favorite scene in Caturday Crime? What did you like about this scene?
What makes Kinley Remington a good amateur sleuth?
How did the cats help Kinley solve the mystery?
Were you able to guess the culprit in Caturday Crime?
What clues helped and what red herrings threw you off the trail of the killer?
What did you think of the town of Burke?
What did you think of Slope House? Would you like to live in a mansion?
If you could have a priceless diamond necklace, what color and shape would the diamond be?
Have you ever been stuck in a dead-end job like Kinley? What did you do to get out of it?
Would you like to see Caturday Crime made into a movie or TV show? Who would you pick to play Kinley, Tripp, and Miss Penelope?
Do you have any predictions for future books in the Cat Rescue Mystery Series?

Caturday Crime Book Club Activities

Have a dessert potluck and discuss the book. Try Amanda Flower’s pumpkin-spiced zucchini muffins!
Bake and decorate sugar cookies. Have a contest for the best decorated cat-themed cookie.
Ask every book club member to bring an index card or a piece of paper with a fun fact about cats. Read the facts out loud.
Take turns giving your opinion of the book using only cat puns.
Imagine that Caturday Crime is being adapted into a television series. Take turns saying which actor or actress you would choose to play your favorite character from the book.
Take turns telling the group about a cat you currently have, once had, or hope to have someday.
Take turns telling your favorite cat story.
Have a group craft session. Make DIY cat toys for your own cats or for cats at a local cat rescue. Try the DIY yarn balls shown below.
Have a yard sale, bake sale, or walk-a-thon to raise money for a local cat rescue or animal shelter.
Volunteer for a local cat rescue or shelter.

Amanda Flower’s Pumpkin-Spiced Zucchini Muffins

Author Amanda Flower shared this recipe for pumpkin-spiced zucchini muffins. This recipe is a delicious fall treat that works well for a reading snack, a dessert table, or a book club meeting. Get Amanda Flower’s Pumpkin-Spiced Zucchini Muffins Recipe. You can find more recipes from Amanda on her blog.

DIY Yarn Ball for Cats

You can create a homemade yarn ball toy for cats using a small plastic wiffle ball and a small amount of yarn. If you'd like to make the yarn ball extra enticing, you can stuff it with dried catnip.

By the time you're finished, the toy will look like a real yarn ball and will provide hours of fun for your cat.

As with any cat toy, you should supervise your pet while they play to make sure they don't eat the yarn or do anything silly with it.

Get the free DIY yarn ball instructions, or click on the pattern image to get a PDF of the instructions that you can print or save to your computer.

Caturday Crime Coloring Page and Games

Click on the links or images to see printable PDFs of word games and a coloring page inspired by Caturday Crime.

Go Beyond the Book

Follow the links below for more cat fun.

Read about Trap-Neuter-Return-Monitor (TNRM) as a humane and effective method to manage community cat populations.
Read tips for new cat and kitten owners.
Enter your cat photos in a weekly cat photo contest.

Amanda’s cat Marmalade (on the left) is the inspiration for Marmalade in the Caturday Crime Novel. Another one of Amanda’s rescue cats, Baby Z (on the right) is pictured with the book.

Visit Amanda’s Etsy Shop

All of the profits from Caturday Crime go toward cat rescue efforts. Author Amanda Flower also raises money for cat rescue through her Etsy shop, Amanda’s Sweet Cozy Designs. The shop sells bookmarks, jewelry, pens, ornaments, signed books, and other custom merchandise made by Amanda Flower.

Some of the jewelry from Amanda Flower’s Sweet Cozy Designs Etsy Shop

Interview with Amanda Flower

Check out this Cozy Crime Reads interview with Amanda Flower to learn more about her books and writing process. Discover why she chose to write cozy mysteries, how she creates her characters and settings, and what she does to take a story from an idea to a finished novel.