Cat Coming Home (29 page)

Cat Striking Back

Cat Playing Cupid

Cat Deck the Halls

Cat Pay the Devil

Cat Breaking Free

Cat Cross Their Graves

Cat Fear No Evil

Cat Seeing Double

Cat Laughing Last

Cat Spitting Mad

Cat to the Dogs

Cat in the Dark

Cat Raise the Dead

Cat Under Fire

Cat on the Edge The

The Catsworld Portal

Home is where his heart has always lingered, where he etched his first kitten paw prints,

Where he sucked in his first lick of milk, smelled his first briny scent of the sea,

Tasted, first, the fishy sand and the reek of seagull feathers. Where he mewed his first word and knew that he was different.

—Cat Anonymous

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

CAT COMING HOME.
Copyright © 2010 by Shirley Rousseau Murphy.

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EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2010 ISBN: 978-0-062-01838-0

FIRST EDITION

Cat illustration by Beppe Giacobbe

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

   Murphy, Shirley Rousseau.
     Cat coming home : a Joe Grey mystery / Shirley
   Rousseau Murphy.—1st ed.

        p. cm.

     ISBN 978-0-06-180693-3

     1. Grey, Joe (Fictitious character)—Fiction.

   2. California—Fiction. 3. Cats—Fiction. I. Title.

   PS3563.U7619C314   2010
   813’.54—dc22

2010015336

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10 98 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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