Birillo The Detective Cat
Illustrated Stories, Games, and Mysteries to Solve for the Whole Family
Author: Aldo Bellini
There's a thief in the house who steals nothing of value. A ghost who waltzes every night at 3:33 in the morning. A double wearing an identical face, wandering the neighborhood passing himself off as him. And a secret, hidden among the boxes in the garage, about to change his family forever.
Birillo is convinced he's the only thinking mind under this roof, and honestly, he's not entirely wrong. He sleeps with one eye shut and one eye open, sharpens his claws on the green armchair before every serious investigation, and keeps an official log that is, in fact, just the embroidered cushion on the sofa. Working alongside him is a genuinely unusual team: Wurstel, a dachshund as loyal as he is stubborn, capable of getting every theory wrong except the one that matters most; Gino, a goldfish who sees everything that happens in the living room and never tells, except through a single bubble that Birillo always interprets to his own advantage; and a human family hiding more secrets than Birillo is willing to admit he's uncovered purely by accident.
The narrating voice is Birillo's own, first person throughout: a comic register built from dead-serious deductions that regularly collapse into the ridiculous, affection shown and instantly denied, light humor that earns a genuine smile without ever losing sight of real suspense in every case. Writing meant to be read aloud as a family, chapter by chapter, at bedtime, or devoured in one sitting by anyone who loves small mysteries with a big heart hiding just beneath the surface.
Because there's one thing our detective really will swear to, no hesitation: beneath the cynicism, beneath the irony, beneath that particular habit of denying every ounce of affection the moment after showing it, Birillo loves his family more than he will ever openly admit. Though, as he'd put it himself, all of this is written strictly for professional reasons, and he'd ask you kindly not to repeat any of it to anyone.
An illustrated book for the whole family: for readers who love lighthearted mysteries full of irony, for anyone looking for a read-aloud that can make you laugh and tear up in the very same chapter, and for anyone who, deep down, has always suspected their own house cat might be running an investigation right under their distracted nose.
Four cases. Countless smaller mysteries in between. One detective who insists, every single time, that none of it means he cares.
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