Clyde, owner of the talking tomcat Joe Grey, Feline P.I., has never been eager to jump into commitments, but with Valentine’s Day nearing, he is finally marrying his longtime girlfriend, Ryan. But Joe doesn’t have long to celebrate the nuptials because a dead body shows up that the chief of police can’t know about, and only Joe and his feline friends have the expertise to find the killer without being detected. So, while the rest of Molena Point is falling in love--even Kit, Joe’s best friend--Joe is hard on the case instead of romancing his girlfriend, Dulcie. Searching high and low for clues, he stumbles upon a second unidentified body, and, even more intriguing, a rare book that holds the secret of the cats’ history--a threat that could take away all of the cats ability to speak. Love makes everything more complicated, and nothing is as easy as it seems--now, it is up to Joe to stop a serial killer, and, ultimately, save Valentine’s Day….
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy grew up in southern California, riding and showing the horses her father trained. She attended the San Francisco Art institute. Shortly after graduation, she married and worked as an interior designer while her husband attended USC. "When Pat finished school, I promptly quit my job and began to exhibit paintings and welded metal sculpture in the West Coast juried shows," Murphy explains. Her work could be seen in many traveling shows in the western States and Mexico. She continues, "But when we moved to Panama for a four-year tour, in Pat's position with the U.S. Courts, I put away the paints and welding torches, and began to write."
She has published sixteen children's books, a young adult fantasy quintet, the Dragonbards fantasy trilogy, and The Catswold Portal. "It was while working on this adult fantasy that I knew I wanted to explore further the fascinating world of sentient cats. I began to see the gray tomcat, whom I knew well in real life, as a feline detective with a brash attitude--and the die was cast. I launched into the Joe Grey mystery series. I like discovering anew with each book how the three cats interact with their close-knit world of human friends--Joe Grey in-your-face abrasive, Dulcie of a gentler nature, and Kit wildly imaginative."
