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    Cat Bearing Gifts

    By Shirley Rousseau Murphy

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    A car crash, a missing treasure, a dead thief, and a suspicious blond divorcee have feline P.I. Joe Grey and his four-legged cohorts clawing for justice in this lively entry in the beloved, award-winning mystery series by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. "Joe Grey and Dulcie aren't your ordinary feline detectives. Murphy's raised the stakes of the feline sleuth genre." (Kirkus Reviews)

    Cat Bearing Gifts A Joe Grey Mystery by Shirley Rousseau Murphy brings back the beloved furry team just in time for the holidays.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 20, 2012
    ISBN9780062200310
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    Cat Bearing Gifts
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    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.

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    • 5/5
      I am so sad to have read this book as it means I am done the series. I have read all 18 books available in the Joe Grey series, even the 1 short novella and the 3 other books about cats by the same author that is available on Scribd. I wish there was more to read as I have grown to love Joe Dulcie Kit even Pan and Misto as friends who I will miss dearly. I am honestly feeling a little lonely for them, that is how involved you will get in these novels. You begin to feel like the characters are part of your family and that Molena Point is your home town, your safe place that you go in your mind that you go to get away from things.
      I can't say enough great things about this series and how it's written. A mystery series with a talking cat, sounds a bit off the wall. But give it a try and by the end you will be a fan as I am. The cats play such an important part of these books, yet it is done in such a way that I pretty much believe that cats can talk. I am a talking cat believer and wish I could have a real Joe Grey, Dulcie, Kit, Pan and Misto!
      Thanks Shirley Rousseau Murphy for writing such great books and bringing the pages of your books alive. You are a true artist with a gift that I am glad you have chosen to share with the world.
    • 4/5
      Cats Bearing Gifts was my first Joe Grey mystery, but I don't think it will be my last. I've been reading fantasies as long as I've been reading mysteries and I don't mind a blend of one or more genres. The idea of cats who speak human (okay, American English), as well as cat is fine by me. I'm sure that Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tee Tucker from Rita Mae & Sneaky Pie Brown's mysteries would envy these cats for being able to communicate with their chosen humans. Also, the bits about a mysterious netherworld that one of the humans has visited were interesting. There are multiple third-person viewpoints, human and cat, in this mystery, including that of the villain, the kind of jerk who believes that everything bad is someone else's fault and he had nothing to do with it. The reader knows what's going on and has to wait for our heroes to put it together. The humans are nice, the cats are charming, the villain worthy of boos and tossings of popcorn. It was fun. I liked Ms. Boyce's narration.