Joe Grey and his partner, Dulcie, are frantic when their pretty teen kitten goes missing. Aided by their two- and four-legged friends, they hit the streets of Molena Point in search of Courtney. But locked in an apartment above the local antiques shop, Courtney’s enjoying her first solo adventure. When she first met the shop’s owner, Ulrich Seaver, he pampered her, winning her trust. She doesn’t know that Ulrich is hiding a dangerous secret that could put everyone in the coastal village at risk.
With his focus on finding Courtney, Joe Grey has neglected his detective work with the Molena Point police. Before his daughter disappeared, Joe found a viciously beaten woman near the beach. Joe is also concerned about a family of newcomers whose loud domestic battles are disturbing the town’s tranquility. Though the crimes are as crisscrossed as the strands of a ball of yarn, Joe Grey’s cat senses tell him they may somehow be linked. It’s up to the fleet-footed feline and his crime-solving coterie to untangle the mysteries before it’s too late.