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Cat Laughing Last
- The Joe Grey Mysteries, Book 7
- Narrated by: Susan Boyce
- Series: Joe Grey Mystery, Book 7
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Even felines with such amazing talents as Joe Grey and his partner, Dulcie, need some down time. Using their amazing abilities to talk and read, they’ve helped their unwitting humans put bad guys away. But these clever four-footed detectives can’t possibly enjoy a little catnap, not when their lovely seaside village is in an uproar.
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- Dawn
- 11-16-19
I love this series
I love this series and look forward to the new adventure Joe and his pals. Shirley Rousseau Murphy & Susan Boyce nail it again with this installment. I highly recommend this book/audiobook and the rest of this series to cat lovers and cozy mystery fans.
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- Sandie Herron
- 04-18-19
Charming and cozy
As Joe Grey and Dulcie stroll the streets and rooftops of Molena Point, California, they are privy to information no human is aware of. For you see, they are cats. Even among their own furry kind, they are unique and extraordinary, for they can speak just like human beings. Very few humans are aware of their amazing talents, as the felines strive to hide their intellectual ability. However confidential their speaking and reading abilities may be, Joe and Dulcie are key informants to Captain Max Harper of the Molena Point Police Department.
In Joe Grey’s seventh adventure, the five ladies of the Senior Survival Club are working hard to raise money to put toward their goal – a communal home to provide mutual security and comfort as they grow older. They scout the yard and estate sales and offer their treasures on the Internet. Someone else must think they have something of great value when Susan Brittain finds her home broken into and their purchases ransacked and damaged. Later the same day, when Cora Lee French scouts a small engraved chest, the local antiques dealer rips it from her hands.
These acts may have to do with the supposedly true story upon which author Elliott Traynor has based a play to be enacted by the little theatre in Molena Point. Traynor and his much younger wife Vivi have come to town to supervise the first performance of his play about two doomed lovers who secretly wrote each other love letters while Elliott works on his latest novel. Elliott is far overdue on his deadline, and the pages that Joe and Dulcie read printed out in his study are woefully lacking his former capacity for writing. Elliott and Vivi veto the local director’s superior choice of Cora Lee for lead in the play in favor of Fern Barth, assistant to the antiques dealer. Then Fern’s body is found in the display window of the local consignment shop with the three small chests once on display missing or smashed. It is revealed that chests such as these may have held the secret love letters from the true characters in Elliott Traynor’s play. But do these particular chests hold any such letters? It is time for Joe and Dulcie to take matters into their own paws.
A work of fiction requires a certain suspension of disbelief, and it takes skilled writing to achieve this goal. Shirley Rousseau Murphy makes the speaking and thinking abilities of the cats somehow within the scope of reality so the reader believes it could happen. I knew I was charmed by the results when I began to look twice at my own furry pets and wonder just how much they understood what I was saying.
This ingenious idea, besides being pure feline delight to the reader, actually offers a way for us to become aware of key clues. No human being would stroll from roof to roof and enter a home via the attic window. Through their own sleuthing skills and posing as innocent bystanders, the cats are able to gather information not available any other way and then pass that sensitive information on to police detectives.
Charming and cozy. Warm and fuzzy. Delightfully sneaky. All thoughts I was left with at the end of this captivating tail, oops, tale. Will the Senior Survival Club find a new home suitable for all five ladies? Will anyone find out that Joe and Dulcie can speak? I can’t wait to read their next adventure, sure it will bring purrs of delight.
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- Frances E. Greer, Jr.
- 02-06-19
Best Yet!
I've enjoyed every book in this series. Each one seems to be either excellent, or better than the one before, if that is possible. The author has researched many topics in great depth, adding to the descriptions and the color of the narrative. The geographic area sounds like such a lovely tourist attraction & an even better place to live. As a feline rescuer, I am quite enchanted by the concept of talking cats! All the cats who have lived with me have distinctly different personalities. I've had a very smart, affectionate grey like Joe & my husband has had a tortoise shell who loved (only) him completely. Our tabby is 20!
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- Me
- 11-09-21
A little slow but still great
This joe gray mystery took a long time to unfold - definitely not the best one so far but I still love the characters.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-29-21
Great fun as always.
A magical story as are all Shirley Russo Murphy s Joe grey series . I'm enjoying listening to them after reading the entire series. They never fail to put me
in an even better mood. Thanks Shirley R.M. You are a great author. I wish you the very best.
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- Suzan HK
- 07-23-21
Good Plot
I enjoyed the character development and the plot in this story. These characters are so much fun.
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- Karen
- 04-30-21
Might be better for younger readers
I'm a cat lover and thought I'd like this. But I found it confusing as the cats, except Kit, are named with human names. I found I had to really concentrate to keep names straight. It failed to keep my attention well enough to keep me involved in the story line. And I listen not to concentrate and staying involved but to have a good story while I cook, do housework, 0drive, swim, etc.
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- happyjo
- 04-23-21
Cat laughing last
This is a very good book! I found the cats to be entertaining and loveable. mysterious activities and situations keep the reader guessing what the true truth is.
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- Carol A. Kelly
- 04-14-21
Another stellar plot for the cat detectives!
The story kept me totally engaged. I feel as though the characters have become like family!
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- Dawn Childress
- 04-12-21
Love it!
I love all of the Joe Gray mystery books and the narrator Susan Boyce is excellent!
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- ursula w.
- 02-03-22
Love these guys
Another absorbing tale, working my way through the whole series
Love the narrator and the plots and even made me hungry with the food description s. 🐱🐱🐱
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- Lou
- 01-01-22
Another gripping Joe grey mystery
I am so glad I found these books on audible I absolutely love them and listen every day before bed and through the night sometimes If I'm having trouble sleeping, I really like the narration she seems to really get the cats personalities across.
As an owner of 5 cats and 2 dogs I can just picture the antics in these stories really happening lol, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's walked into a room with their animals acting very suspicious ...
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- Helen M
- 02-25-22
Bit disappointing
This sounded like such a fun and quirky angle but it didn’t quite meet my expectations. There were a lot of apparently unnecessary references to earlier stories with the same characters, particularly during early chapters and it all got a bit confusing. The story certainly improved and I’m glad I didn’t give up, but I don’t think I’ll be buying more by the same author.