When death pays a visit to his beloved coastal California town, the stakes are dangerously high for feline investigator Joe Grey...

Dulcie has given birth to a trio of adorable kittens, two little boys as pale as sand and one winsome calico girl. Proud new father Joe Grey wants to keep his precocious offspring safe from his detective work secretly helping solve crimes alongside his human friends at Molena Point PD.

A ring of car thieves has recently hit their village and a slew of small towns along the Northern California coast. When the local beautician and one of her customers are found murdered in the salon, Joe's superb instincts soon lead him and the police closer to the culprits. But the investigation is unexpectedly complicated when three curious young cats decide to take matters into their own paws.

To solve the murders, stop the gang of thieves, and keep their babies safe, Joe and Dulcie eagerly dig their claws into a hair-raising search that leads to unexpected connections, to the building of a new cat shelter, and to a neighbor who suddenly becomes a part of the tangle.