Nestled quietly on the Pacific Coast below San Francisco, Molena Point is a quaint hamlet--not the kind of place an escaped convict would choose for a hideout. But it just happens to be the home of a state's witness who put a thief named Cage Jones behind bars--until he broke out, that is. Wily tomcat Joe Grey senses trouble is on the way, but he never expected a federal officer would be shot or that two locals would be brutally murdered. With danger closing in, the feline detective, his girlfriend Dulcie, and their tattercoat friend Kit--an indomitable trio with special powers that only a few select humans are privy to--must put paws and whiskers together to capture a very nasty criminal before he strikes again.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy is the author of eleven other Joe Grey mysteries, most recently Cat Breaking Free (also available from Sound Library®), and has received five Council of Authors and Journalists Awards for previous books. She has also worked as a commercial artist and exhibited paintings and sculptures extensively on theWest coast.