Cat Fear No Evil (Joe Grey Mysteries)
With her latest Joe Grey mystery, Murphy moves closer to integrating the world she created in her first adult novel,The Catswold Portal(1992), which features shape changers who shift between cat and human forms. Azrael, the sinister black tomcat with burning yellow eyes introduced inCat in the Dark(1999), has returned to Molena Point, California, to embark on another crime spree with human cohorts while he attempts to find the cat portal to the Netherworld. Kate Osborne, who moved to San Francisco three years earlier to search for information about the parents she has never known, also comes back to the village, obviously troubled and arousing great interest on the part of Azrael. The fast-paced story involves sophisticated burglary, murder, and the bizarre secret of Kate's own nature. Once again the delightful mix of humans, sentient cats, mystery, and humor remains true to the preceding books in the series, only this time with a larger dollop of fantasy, which should extend the audience beyond the usual cat-mystery buffs.Sally EstesCopyright &#169; American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.