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"Murphy's series is top-notch...a real treat."
-- Cats magazine
Author Notes
Fiction author Shirley Rousseau Murphy grew up in Long Beach, California and majored in fine and commercial art at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked as a commercial artist and has exhibited paintings and sculptures extensively on the West Coast. She has also been a designer and an interior designer, as well as in a library in the Panama Canal Zone. Murphy has written several children's books, plus the fantasy novel The Catswold Portal, the Dragonbards trilogy, and the popular Joe Grey mystery series, for which she has won eight Muse Medallion awards from the Cat Writers' Association. She and her husband live in Carmel, California.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In Murphy's magical 15th mystery to feature tomcat Joe Grey (after Feb. 2009's Cat Playing Cupid), an anonymous tip leads Det. Juana Davis of the Molina Point, Calif., PD to an empty swimming pool, where she finds trace evidence of a murder but no corpse. When Sage, a feral feline, catches the canny killer in the act of placing the victim in a ditch dug in the garage floor of a house being remodeled, the cat-hating sociopath throws a hammer at Sage. Sage survives to report what he's witnessed to his cat pals who live with humans, including Joe. With so many smart four-footed sleuths on his trail, the killer is doomed. As in recent entries in this popular series, the cat detectives receive more face time than their two-footed cohorts, like Molina Point's often bumbling if well-intentioned police chief, Max Harper, who gets on the stick only late in the game. Mystery fans who prefer people in action will have to look elsewhere. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Sleuthing feline Joe Grey's back in this find-the-victim mystery. When Detective Juana Davis gets a phone call from an anonymous source tipping her off about a suspected murder, she doesn't ask a lot of questions. She's heard this voice before, and she knows that questions won't get her anywhere. So she trustingly follows the source's tip to a suburban backyard pool, where she finds no body but mysterious traces of blood. So begins the latest adventure of cat detective Joe Grey, her anonymous tipster. Readers may remember Joe (Cat Playing Cupid, 2009, etc.) as the cat who talks not only with his feline companions but also with a few lucky humans. While Murphy's frequent exposition of the rules of kitty conversation acts as a continuing plague, her premise, a mystery that withholds the identities of both the victim and the perp, is intriguing. Joe knows the pair must be one of four husband/wife sets in the neighborhood, but which is it? He, Dulcie, Kit and their human friends Clyde and Ryan must band together to lead Detective Davis through the clues before the mystery man strikes back at the cat detectives. One thing's for sure: Whatever sinister baddie is behind this homicide hates catsthe most egregious sin Murphy can imagine. Readers new to Murphy's fanciful and highly anthropomorphized mental world of cats might best approach this installment as a dialogue-free zone. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Joe Grey and fellow talking felines Kit and Dulcie are back in their fifteenth mystery (following Cat Playing Cupid, 2008). Joe spots a dead body in an abandoned pool and alerts the cops, but it mysteriously disappears before they arrive, leaving behind only a few small clues. Meanwhile, Kit becomes entranced with one of the local wild cats, a young female who hungers for her lost human family, and Joe's human family decides to start a home-remodeling business. Joe continues to be one of the most entrancing (and effective) detectives in modern cozy mysteries; few can stop him, and nothing will keep him away from a crime scene, not even the threat of a cat-hating killer. Set in the small seaside village of Molena, California, the fast-paced novel draws on such au courant themes as home foreclosures and the credit crunch. A must-read for all Joe Grey fans and a great suggestion for all lovers of cat mysteries and contemporary cozies.--Moyer, Jessica Copyright 2009 Booklist