Cat Shout for Joy: A Joe Grey Mystery (Joe Grey Mystery Series)
Cat Shout for Joy: A Joe Grey Mystery (Joe Grey Mystery Series) book cover

Cat Shout for Joy: A Joe Grey Mystery (Joe Grey Mystery Series)

Paperback – Large Print, February 23, 2016

Price
$16.19
Format
Paperback
Pages
416
Publisher
Harper Large Print
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0062440211
Dimensions
6 x 0.83 x 9 inches
Weight
14.4 ounces

Description

About the Author Shirley Rousseau Murphy is the author of twenty mysteries in the Joe Grey series, for which she has won the Cat Writers’ Association Muse Medallion nine years running, and has received ten national Cat Writers’ Association Awards for best novel of the year. She is also a noted children’s book author, and has received five Council of Authors and Journalists Awards. She lives in Carmel, California, where she serves as full-time household help to two demanding feline ladies.

Features & Highlights

  • Awaiting the birth of his first kittens, feline P. I. Joe Grey, his companion Dulcie, and their furry sleuthing pals must unmask a killer preying on some of the most vulnerable citizens in the charming California coastal community of Molena Point.
  • For Joe Grey and Dulcie, life is a bittersweet mix of endings and beginnings. While they joyfully await their first litter, they are also sad for their friend, the old yellow cat Misto, whose time on earth is drawing to an end. But Misto tells them an exciting future awaits: among the litter will be a little calico returned from the distant past who will be born with the same ancient markings, and the adventurous spirit of Joe Grey.
  • While the proud parents await the birth of their babies, their humans have their hands full with projects of their own. Kate Osborne has bought the old Pamillon estate and Ryan Flannery is building a new cat shelter as part of their volunteer rescue project. The criminals are busy, too. The Molena Point PD has stepped up patrols to apprehend a mugger attacking the local elderly. The case becomes a homicide when one of the victims dies, leaving everyone in the town—including Joe and Grey and his furry sleuthing companions—on edge, just when the kittens are about to arrive. When Dulcie gives birth, her little calico is just as Misto predicted, as if she has come back to the world from mythic ancient times.
  • But the celebrations will have to wait. A murderer is on the loose—and neither young nor old is safe until the culprit is found.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Finally Fed Up

I couldn't even make it halfway through the book. After becoming less and less of a force, the cats are now merely two of many characters in a book with little dialogue and endless descriptive narrative that grinds down the will of a reader to continue waiting for some action. Any action. The books have become long pages blathering on and on about the wonders of rooftop travel or every single characters' day at work or how they set their table, or all the surroundings as each scene changes in long and intermidable detail, on and on and on. BORING.
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Another win for Joe and his furry family and friends

The Joe Grey mysteries are always a good read. I'm never disappointed. I really appreciated this book being available in the larger print format.
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great item

nice reading and great size
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Talking cats solve case.

I have read several of these books about the talking cats. Ordinarily, I don't care for any type of fantasy, but I really enjoy these books. The fact that now there are kittens, is really intriguing. Can't wait for the next one.
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Five Stars

I've read most of the stories and enjoy the mysteries with cats! I love cats!!
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Wonderful author, wonderful series

Wonderful author, wonderful series. Some people wonder how a book about cats is for "grown ups" - easy - a great mystery with interesting characters.
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Always love the murphy

Always love the murphy books
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Great read

Have real all of the Joe Grey mysteries and love them.
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Five Stars

I love all these cat mysteries
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She's done it again-Yay, Joe Grey!!! & thank you Shirley Rousseau Murphy

It's Joe Grey, & Dulcie, & KITTENS!!!!! What's not to like?