Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author HarperCollins $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-105097-8
Recommended only for dedicated cat lovers, this lackluster tale is the latest outing (after Cat in the Dark) featuring the feline Sherlock Holmes named Joe Grey and his companion, Dulcie. As usual, the cats not only outsmart most humans, but also...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Morrow, $19.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-240349-0
Rousseau's uneven 19th Joe Grey Mystery (after 2012's Cat Bearing Gifts) finds talking tomcat PI Joe Grey, and his pregnant partner, Dulcie, investigating a string of assaults in Molena Point, Calif. Most assume the attacks are cruel pranks, as the...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Morrow, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-061-80694-0
Talking cat fans will welcome Murphy’s exciting 18th mystery featuring feline Joe Grey (after 2011’s Cat Telling Tales), in which Joe’s tortoiseshell friend, Kit, plays a lead role. After a multicar accident on a dangerous mountain road near Molena...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author Roc $22 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-45146-0
This delightful fantasy posits a Netherworld located under modern California and peopled by humans, mythological creatures--including Harpies and Griffons--and shape-changers such as the Catswold, who can shift between cat and human forms. In this...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-06-024362-3
In this second volume of the Dragonbards Trilogy, Tebriel must use his skills to fight the evil that is conquering his world. Dacia is the only country thathas not succumbed to the mind enslavement perpetrated by the ""unliving.'' They are, however,
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-06-024366-1
The popular Dragonbards trilogyNightpool and The Ivory Lyre were the first two bookscomes to an exciting, if somewhat predictable close. The story picks up where the last book ended, with the defeat of the unliving at Dacia. Before Prince Tebriel...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author Marcel Dekker $3.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-71049-0
Dagliesh and Sewell received praise for the clarity and immediacy of their pic ture book, a hit of the season in 1954. Today's children, beginners and ad vanced readers, will value the story about one family's first Thanksgiving in the Plymouth...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author HarperCollins $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-620950-0
A wedding bomber and a murderer upset the peace of Molena Point, Calif., whose human denizens must turn for help to those crafty, crime-solving feline sleuths, Joe Grey and Dulcie, in Cat Seeing Double: A Joe Grey Mystery, the eighth in this warm
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author HarperCollins $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-105098-5
Debonair detective Joe Grey lives and sleuths along northern California's rugged coast, in the quaint--but dangerous--village of Molena Point. In this sixth of Murphy's books named for Joe, passions rise and two women exsanguinate on a mountain...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author . HarperCollins $23.85 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-620951-7
Joe Grey, remarkable tomcat and sleuth last seen in 2001's Cat Spitting Mad, returns in Murphy's seventh cute feline mystery of theft, intrigue and murder. When famous novelist Elliott Traynor and his wife, Vivi, 40 years his junior, move to
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (265p) ISBN 978-0-06-105096-1
Modern-day descendants of ancient Celtic talking cats, Joe Grey and Dulcie make their hardback debut in this cat-chy tale (after three paperback adventures: Cat Raise the Dead, etc.). When the feline duo witnesses a series of burglaries in their...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-180693-3
In Murphy's deeply moving 17th Joe Grey mystery (after 2009's Cat Striking Back), yuletide cheer appears in the enchanting form of Misto, a wise old yellow tomcat who returns from a long sojourn in Soledad Prison to Molena Point, Calif., where he's...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author . Morrow $19.99 (319p) ISBN 978-0-06-112399-3
In Murphy's magical 15th mystery to feature tomcat Joe Grey (after Feb. 2009's Cat Playing Cupid
), an anonymous tip leads Det. Juana Davis of the Molina Point, Calif., PD to an empty swimming pool, where she finds trace evidence of a...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author . Morrow $16.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-06-112397-9
Murphy's diverting 14th mystery to feature talking feline gumshoe Joe Grey (after 2008's Cat Deck the Halls
) finds Joe a little annoyed by all the lovey-dovey stuff run rampant in Molena Point, Calif. A year earlier, Joe endured the...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author . Morrow $16.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-06-112395-5
Just in time for Christmas, Murphy brings in feline sleuth Joe Grey to celebrate the season and try to rescue a frightened child in her 14th mystery set in Molena Point, Calif. (after Cat Pay the Devil
). Joe's tortoiseshell pal, Kit, discovers
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author . Morrow $24.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-06-057810-7
Talking tomcat Joe Grey and his fellow feline sleuths, Dulcie and Kit, track an escaped convict in their engaging 12th adventure (after 2005's Cat Breaking Free
). Just as the cats fear, Cage Jones kidnaps Dulcie's human housemate, a retired
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-06-057809-1
Murphy's 11th Joe Grey cat cozy (after Cat Cross Their Graves
) offers the usual winning blend of suspense and whimsy. A feral cat, a mauled and very dead motorcyclist in a ravine and a series of boutique robberies bode ill for Joe's human...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-06-057808-4
The beginning of Murphy's 10th Joe Grey mystery (after 2004's Cat Fear No Evil
) signals that this won't be your typical light cat cozy ("On winter evenings the shadow of a tall, old house struck down across the graves like a long...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-06-620949-4
Once again sleek feline sleuth Joe Grey and his tabby partner, Dulcie, prove to be the best snitches the Molena Point, Calif., police ever had in this superior cat cozy, the ninth entry in Murphy's popular series (after 2003's Cat Seeing...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy and Pat J.J. Murphy. Morrow, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-226878-5
Fans of Murphy's long-running mystery series featuring talking tomcat Joe Grey (Cat Bearing Gifts, etc.) will welcome this offbeat prequel, a supernatural thriller written with her husband, Pat. An initial author's note, which refers to an "interval"
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author, Alan Tiegreen, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (121p) ISBN 978-0-689-71525-9
Plagued by a demanding stepmother and stepsisters, a modern-day girl begins to relive the Cinderella legend. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author, Diane Dillon, Author, Leo Dillon, Author HarperCollins $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-024903-8
Elements of fantasy and folklore intertwine in both the telling of and the artwork for this haunting, mystical tale. Unaware that her father was an east wind, Resshie, now a young woman, yearns to be a part of the sky. To support herself, she takes...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author, Donna Diamond, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (87p) ISBN 978-0-06-024357-9
Animal lovers will be drawn to this heartwarming winter tale about a boy's quest to befriend an orphaned field mouse. When Rick first spies the tiny striped creature perched atop a bird feeder, he thinks the animal must be the offspring of Lucy, a...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Morrow, $22.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-267083-0
Interaction between domesticated cats and their feral relatives is just one of the highlights of Murphy’s fun-filled 20th Joe Grey mystery (after 2016’s Cat Shout for Joy). Joe, who’s well known for his detecting skills in Molena Point, Calif., and...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Morrow, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-283804-9
At the start of Murphy’s bland 21st Joe Grey mystery (after 2017’s Cat Shining Bright), feline detective Joe Grey saves the life of a badly beaten woman who was left for dead on a beach in Molena Point, Calif. Meanwhile, the town’s friendly...
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