My rating: 5 - STARS This fourteenth outing for the Joe Grey Mystery Series was fun and intriguing for me. While I haven't read the full series yet, I did read the earliest books and was quickly drawn into this wonderful world where some cats can speak and think on par with humans, while others cannot. Miss Murphy keeps each story building on this mystery either slightly or heavily. In this case it was more heavily focused on while at the same time dealing with a classic whodunnit. What is the connection between a body, dead 10 years, up in Oregon have to the mysterious disappearance of a local man who was going on a hike locally? And when a second body, also dead some 10 years, is discovered in an unmarked grave the big questions arise. Could this one be the missing local man? If not, then who is it? And why were they buried with a book that frightens the speaking cats, because it contains hints about them? These are just a few of the questions...