Cat Striking Back

By Shirley Rousseau Murphy

“Murphy’s series is top-notch...a real treat.”
—Cats magazine

 

The acclaimed mystery writer whom Kirkus Reviews praises for having “raised the stakes of the feline sleuth genre,” Shirley Rousseau Murphy brings back cat detectives Joe Grey, Dulcie, and Kit in Cat Striking Back. Arguably the most unusual sleuth in contemporary crime fiction, Joe Grey is at his curious best when he pads across evidence of a heinous crime but with no victim in sight. Cat Striking Back is a treat for readers of Lillian Jackson Braun, Rita Mae Brown, and Carole Nelson Douglas—for cat people and anyone who loves a good whodunit—a bravura display of the mastery that has won Murphy an unprecedented seven straight Muse Medallions from the national Cat Writers Association.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Oct 27, 2009
• ISBN: 9780061959264

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

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.

Reviews for Cat Striking Back

[koalamom_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The cats are at it again - out to solve yet another murder in Molina Point without the Chief discovering that his prize snitch is a cat.Several couples in one neighborhood all decide to go on vacation at the same time leaving Charlie's cleaning crew to check on the houses. Unbeknownst to all, one of their neighbors is planning a break in after they all leave and his wife has keys to their homes since she watches their cats or lets in workmen when the owners' are at work.The whole plan is set - until he kills his wife, his partner in crime, and then things go downhill from there.