Cat Seeing Double

By: Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Romance is in the air in the charming seaside village of Molena Point, California. Everyone is excited about the upcoming wedding of its chief of police to the lovely Charlie Getz, even cool feline detective Joe Grey. But the festivities are interrupted when two uninvited guests try to blow up the church. Then one of the bride’s good friends, building contractor Ryan Flannery, lands in a heap of trouble when her philandering husband is found dead.

With suspicion falling on Ryan’s shoulders, Joe Grey and his pals, Dulcie and Kit, set out to prove her innocence. Soon paw-deep in a tangle of jealousy, greed, and vengeance, Joe Grey, Dulcie, and Kit find themselves in the biggest cat fight of their lives - a bare-clawed battle with a prey who is as cunning as he is deadly...

©2013 Shirley Rousseau Murphy (P)2013 AudioGO

One of the best in the series.

This installment is action packed. A great series to read & re-read. The animals are so realistically described with depth of personality. Enjoyable!

Very good

As always, I enjoy these fun cat mysteries. Eventually I’ll finish the whole series and miss more.

Joe Grey mysteries are fabulous!

If you like mysteries and you love cats this book, and all the others in the series, are for you!

Joe Meets His Gray Double

It's the further delightful adventures of the Feline Threesome, now added by a dog! Just enough subterfuge & murder to spice things up, makes this latest mystery as delectable as the varied (non-vet approved!) meals the Three regularly consume, compliments of the close-knit characters whom the cats consider their family.
If you've ever lived with a cat who made you suspect that he understands you well, can anticipate your thinking, or was unlike any cat you'd ever known, then you would truly enjoy this series. If not, then let this series open your eyes to what the rest of us already realize about the Feline Mind!

fun creative clean

I really enjoyed this book. It was creative and fun ! Its nice to listen to something that does not have alot of grade school playground language. this author writes for a mature audience with a mature vocabulary even if they are only 14 years old. This was enjoyable all the way through.

Another great book

The greatest detectives of all time are Cats! Love this author and her writing skills

Started out with a bang and kept on smoking!

Good twists and turns as the MP gang faceoff against hateful characters bent on destruction.

Good book

Fun to listen to another Joe Grey mystery- ready for the next adventure - a pleasant way to spend the day

I always look forward to this enthralling series

On the Pacific Coast the enchanted village of Molena Point nestles between rolling hills. Watched over by Police Captain Max Harper and his small force of detectives, it is a safe and idyllic haven from the hustle and bustle of modern life. This pleasant community is inhabited by a wide variety of people whom we have gotten to know over seven previous entries in this series. It is also the home of Joe Grey, Dulcie, and Kit, three sentient cats with the ability to speak.

On a quiet Saturday in September, the residents of the village assemble at the wedding of Captain Max Harper and his bride Charlie Getz. Joe Grey’s owner Clyde Damon is the best man. The chief of detectives’ niece Ryan Flannery is maid of honor. Romance is in the air while Ryan dresses up for the first time in weeks, having just returned from the completion of her weeks-long work at a nearby construction site. Clyde loads Joe Grey and Dulcie into the rumble seat of his vintage car when he picks up Ryan.

The church is resplendent with flowers and ribbons as the villagers gather. Only Kit sees the boy with a small black box on the roof across the street watching the wrapped present tucked into the lectern. As the contents of that box dawn on Kit, she scampers down to whisper “bomb” into Clyde’s ear. Never doubting the word of one of these unique talking cats, Clyde quickly spreads the word to evacuate the church.

Charlie anticipated that her life as a police captain’s wife was going to be full of stress, and she certainly has proof of that now. However, the villagers all re-group and move the wedding to a garden down the street and hold the ceremony by candlelight, sending the happy couple to San Francisco for their honeymoon.

Never in her wildest dreams did Ryan Flannery think she would awaken the next morning to find her estranged husband dead in her garage. Separated for months, Ryan had no desire to see Rupert, her philandering husband whom she was suing for half the value of the construction company they built together. Now the police have another investigation on their hands, one they will carry out with the utmost care to find the culprit and exonerate the family of one of their own.

I always look forward to a new entry in this enthralling series. I enjoy the steady pace of action and storytelling all bundled together with brief histories from previous books. This volume in particular fills in essential details of who the villagers are and their relationships with each other and with these exceptional cats. None of it is so overwhelming, however, to need a chart of events or list of characters.

The unique talents of Joe Grey, Dulcie, and Kit bring an element to this cozy story that would never have been possible without them. They are good detectives, and they find brilliant ways to share the information they gather from rooftops and spying through windows and sneaking through open doors that is simply not available to the human inhabitants of the story. Their existence provides yet another enigma that is woven into the plot.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy has an exceptional way of sharing information and telling a story. The pace never stalls; it proceeds at a very comfortable speed, but it is certainly full of surprises. The same information is not reviewed over and over again, which I find fault with in so many other cozy stories, and which Murphy successfully avoids in her writing.

Each earlier entry in this purr-fectly delightful series is a separate and distinct entry in the series exploring the lives of different villagers and events that are intermingled with one another, yet it is not necessary to read them all to enjoy each of the others with pure delight.

With “three cats who are like no other – not totally cat, and not human, but with talents of both” – the town of Molena Point will no doubt be safe under their watchful eyes.

Cat seeing double

The cats are up to their sneaky detective ways. and a dog is now joining the team! so far I like this story the best.