Cat Bearing Gifts

A Joe Grey Mystery, Book 18

By: Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

A car crash, a missing treasure, a dead thief, and a suspicious blond divorcée have feline P.I. Joe Grey and his four-legged cohorts clawing for justice in this lively new entry in the beloved, award-winning series.

Kate Osborne, a divorcée, reappears with a fortune and a strange story about how she obtained it. Meanwhile, a terrible car crash involves tortoiseshell Kit and her elderly housemates, Lucinda and Pedric Greenlaw. The accident is terrifying enough, but then two mysterious men steal the car - and the secret treasure hidden inside its doors. When one of the thieves ends up dead, Joe must discover if the events are connected - and why. With the investigation in trouble, will they find the killer…or be left chasing their tails?

©2012 Shirley Rousseau Murphy (P)2012 AudioGO

Good

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I like the previous stories better. This one didn't have the fun adventure.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

The story could have been good if I could actually tell where the author was trying to go with it.

Did Susan Boyce do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Yes

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Maybe the movie would be better

Stolen Car and Hidden Treasures

Love this series, and book 18 is no exception! Pedric and Lucinda Greenlaw are on their way home to Molena Point from San Francisco when there is an accident and landslide near Santa Cruz. The Greenlaws Lincoln Town car goes off the road and the Greenlaws are seriously hurt and Kit prepares to go for help, but before she can, a pair of drifters attack Pedric and steal their car . . . hidden in the door panels are precious jewels. So Kit, Dulcie and Joe Grey have their work cut out for them searching for the car thieves and the Greenlaws' friends keep busy nursing them back to health. Kit meets Pan, who is looking for his father, Misto, and the two fall instantly in love. 😘 There's a lot going on, but its not hard to keep track of it all. All of our favorite characters are present, Max and Charlie Harper, Clyde and Ryan Damon and the Greenlaws. Great addition to the series!

Put me in a very bad mood

It was very hard to listen to the abusive mother and the constant annoying dialogue involving Vic - I would get so irritated I’d have to stop listening for awhile. I love this series for the most part, but if I had known how irritating this one was I would have skipped it for sure.

Fun Listen

Still an enjoyable series. Characters are pretty engaging. Cats are clever and all too human.

Really Enjoyable Series!

Interesting people and cats solving crimes! Fresh mystery and storyline keeps coming with each book!

Wonderful story!

Loved this story. Kit is a delightful character. Her love story with Pan is so cute.

Great as always.

All of the Joe Grey mysteries are wonderful. Susan Boyce does her usual stellar job in performing, and we are given a bit more exposition into the crew of usual characters with two new recent additions of talking cats.
I confess that this particular story line was harder to listen to than some. It was distressing listening to the murderer plotting a murder you knew was going to happen. It was a bit darker than most.

Gifted narrator

Susan Boyce, who does most of the narrations for the Joe Grey mysteries, does such a fabulous job.

The Joe Grey mysteries are such a charming series with well thought out cozy mysteries being solved by a team of speaking cats. I am currently enjoying the entire series again on audio.

Very scattered plot

I found it a bit annoying that all the characters knew a little of the overall story but didn't put it together until late in the book because they just didn't communicate (and I realise this was a deliberate plot device but the fact it was obvious was clumsy).
But the characters were charming as usual

I feel like I missed a book in between this one

As I love all these books, this was a winner again. Although I kept going back and making sure I was in the correct book in line. I feel like there should have been a book before this one, one about Kate's adventures.

Another absorbing tale

Love the Joe Grey mystery s and enjoy the narrator too she brings to it live for me

No more

This series started out as a light-hearted, whimsical and enjoyable series about crime solving talking cats. It has now evolved into a less enjoyable series, and even a bit irritating. It’s now more about the cats' antecedents, their emotional yo-yos, soul searchings, poetry writing …
Before, it was sit back and be entertained; no thinking required. Now I get irritating at the parts I consider extraneous and skip straight to the story.
Regrettably, I think this is my last Joe Grey mystery.
P.S. the illustrations keep getting Joe's tail wrong! It was amputated to stub size. Illustrations keep showing Joe with a full tail.