Sometimes, escaping is as much a "going to" as it is an
"away from" and such was the case for young Benny and his
gentle looking grandmother, Maudie Toola. Maudie wanted to
escape from Los Angeles and all its reminders of the murder
and related investigation of her son, Martin, and his new
wife, Caroline. She wanted to come home to Molena Point, a
small, cozy and growing vacation town in California that she
had lived in as a child.
Unknown to Maudie were a number of things happening in
Molena Point that she is not aware of, including some mean
and brutal attacks on elderly and/or single women alone in
their houses that were not only planned to crudely shake the
women's faith in their own independence as well as to
destroy the town's confidence in their police force and
especially with Chief Max Harper. Maudie also did not know
that Molena was home to a unique breed of cats that could
talk and read as well as use phones. She certainly didn't
suspect that Joe Gray, the cat living with the lady she
contracted to do her home renovations, had been purr-fecting
his detective and feline analytic skills and now had her
under surveillance!
As Joe and his feline friends, Dulcie and Kit, keep watch on
things, they catch the whiff of a new yellow tomcat in town.
They soon find out that Misto is an older and well
experienced cat that has been wandering for some time, but
most recently has come up from Soledad prison with a message
for Chief Harper. Joe suspects the old tomcat also has a
secret agenda; so, when violence starts to threaten the
holiday spirit of goodwill, Joe has little
time to know if he can trust the stranger. What will happen
if he does?
Well known for loving cats as well as for her literary
talent, Shirley Rousseau Murphy's CAT COMING HOME is the
16th book in her Joe Grey Mystery series. As this book was
my first introduction to the series, I can well attest that
it reads very well as a stand-alone and I now look forward
to enjoying the pleasure of reading the other stories about
these very talented cat sleuths. It is definitely a
different type of cozy mystery; full of human drama and
suspense, yet with perspectives and interests shifting from
human to a cat's eye view and feline psychology. While I
lapped up the story of these talking and cellphone using
cats, my Siamese was less impressed; after all, she is on
the computer every time I want to use it! It is glad
tidings that this is one treat you don't need to beg for!
Enjoy!
“That was no accident.”
Escaping Los Angeles and the ugly memories of her son’s
recent murder, Maudie Toola returns to her childhood home of
Molena Point with her orphaned grandson, facing the upcoming
Christmas holiday with trepidation. But she is not aware
that the small seaside village is being plagued by a series
of brutal attacks on single women . . . or that the
heartless fiend who shattered her world has followed her
here.
Feline sleuth Joe Grey and his cat pals have a lot on their
dish this holiday season, and it overflows when an elderly
wandering tomcat appears on the scene bearing an important
message from a state prisoner for the chief of police. But
this lonely old cat also has a personal agenda—as does
Maudie Toola, who knows more than she’s telling about her
son’s killer.
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