Care's reputation as a private investigator is growing and clients are beating a path to her door. An elderly woman seeks her help in finding out what happened to her brother. Blackie senses he's met this woman before, some time before he became a cat. But who is she . and what is their connection? At the same time, a dockworker asks Care to find a colleague who's gone missing. But how does a poor labourer have the funds to pay for Care's services? As Blackie and Care delve further, it becomes clear that neither client has been telling the whole truth. Then a body is discovered at the waterfront, and the investigation takes a disturbing new twist ."A delight for anyone who relishes cat mysteries" Library Journal on The Ninth Life "Readers who enjoy the prickly pleasure of stepping into a strange alternate universe will welcome Simon's hypnotic second Blackie and Care mystery" Publishers Weekly on As Dark as My Fur "A dark and gritty story, told from the unique point of view of a narrator who sees things humans can't .

A world of constant and surprising dangers I won't soon forget"JOSEPH FINDER, New York Times bestselling author of The Fixer and Suspicion on The Ninth Life.