Cat Seeing Double: A Joe Grey Mystery

Shirley Rousseau Murphy. HarperCollins, $24.95 (304pp) 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 and furry series by Shirley Rousseau Murphy (Cat Laughing Last, etc.). The author has won four National Cat Writers' Association Awards.

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