In Cat Chase the Moon—the 21st book in Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s Joe Grey Mystery series—feline P. I. Joe Grey and his friends pounce on three investigations that may connect to one larger mystery, including one case that is very personal. Joe Grey, one cat in a family of very unusual cats, is performing his usual…
Cat Shining Bright by Shirley Rousseau Murphy is the 20th book in the Joe Grey mystery series, where the stakes are higher and more personal than ever for feline investigator Joe Grey, as death comes to his beloved coastal California town (available August 15, 2017). In the 20th book in the Joe Grey mystery series, Joe…
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Earlier this month, the Cat Writers’ Association held its annual conference, which includes an awards ceremony to honor writers with Certificates of Excellence, Special Awards, and the fabulous Muse Medallion seen here. The CWA covers all sorts of writing about cats, including lots of nonfiction and even photographs. But as usual, some crime writing faves…
An excerpt of Cat Bearing Gifts, the 18th book in the feline P.I. Joe Grey cozy series by Shirley Rousseau Murphy (available November 20, 2012). Tortoiseshell Kit and her elderly housemates, Lucinda and Pedric Greenlaw, are hurt in a terrible car crash on a winding California coastal road. The accident is terrifying enough, but then…
There are two kinds of mystery fans: those who like mysteries with cats, and those who do not. Being a hardboiled hard ass, I naturally fall into the second camp. I’d rather be mauled by a tiger that read about the feline adventures of Sam Spayed and his girlfriend Kitty O’Shaughnessy. And I don’t say…
Do you ever get bookstore whiplash? You’re walking casually down the aisle, scanning the titles, when you stop dead in your tracks and whip your head around, thinking, Did I really just see that? Or possibly just What the…? After all, it’s the combination of the title and cover art that attracts the casual browser…
