The Great American Cat Novels

Book cover for "The Great Cat American Novel" by dh treichler, featuring a black and red design with a cat's eye in the center and paw prints at the bottom.

February 2018

An Orwellian Animal Farm-esque allegory exploring the political divide.

Amethyst Leopard searches for Bengal Charlie, the Secretary General of the United Cat Nations who has gone missing. The Secretary General has negotiated the Peace Accords with Bull Durham, the Grand Wizard of the Society of Pooches and Cat Antagonizers (SPCA). Amethyst plunges into the world of diplomats, intellectuals and would be revolutionaries in order to learn what happened that night and why the Secretary General is gone. What she learns is how the political divide has made strange bedfellows committed to changing the established order while resisting the change the Peace Accords represent.

Book cover for 'A Cat's Redemption' by DHTreichler, featuring a red and black design with a globe, a cat paw, and an eye illustration. It is labeled as Book Two and is a sequel to 'The Great American Cat Novel.'

August 2019

Working Together With Vastly Different Perspectives Can Lead to Common Understanding.

When PhantomCat watches unusual squirrels descend from the tree outside his window, he is inspired to write about machinations upsetting the election of the next Secretary General of the United Cat Nations.

Someone wants to intimidate cat breed leaders around the globe. So Amethyst Leopard investigates seeming abductions and ritual murders intended to send a message that the incumbent leadership can’t protect the breeds. Who is trying to influence the outcome of the election and why? Even Bull Durham, The Grand Wizard of the Society of Pooches and Cat Antagonizers seeks to help, dispatching ‘Irish’ Wolfhound, his most trusted ally. Together Amethyst and Irish travel the world in hold baggage. They investigate mystifying events that point to UFOs and murders committed by a mad dog who has been locked up for a decade.

Book cover of "The Great American Ghost Cat Novel: Phantom Returns" by D H Treichler, featuring a stylized cat illustration in a circular design with red, black, and gray color scheme.

February 2023

When the ghost of a cat writer returns to write a ghost story as the ghost writer to a new kitten, all hell breaks loose for Amethyst Leopard, one more time.

When PhantomCat passes on, his ghost returns to the home of the long and short hairs, to find someone for whom he can ghost write the next in his Amethyst Leopard series. Finding a new kitten, LuccaCat, willing and able to learn to write novels, they embark on a quest to write the definitive ghost story. This time Amethyst Leopard is asked to assist the Society of Pooches and Cat Antagonizers find out who caused the unexpected passing of the Duke of Yorkshire Terriers. Interviewing breed leaders and other nefarious characters, Amethyst decides to follow the uncommon path to an explanation, meeting the unexpected explanation