TRUE GREY A Dulcie Schwartz Feline Mystery, Book 5

Tavia Gilbert delightfully portrays Dulcie Schwartz, gothic doctoral student. The story includes Dulcie's ability to elicit details from the past, her present-day college quandaries, and sage words of advice from her ghost cat, Mr. Grey. Dulcie's career is about to die a tragic death when she's accused of murdering a visiting scholar whose research creepily parallels her own. Gilbert is best when reciting Schwartz's gothic dreams, which predict the future, and passages from the mysterious author. As Dulcie's hysteria mounts and she feels fellow scholars and administrators turning into foes, Gilbert's voice becomes a bit shrill. Much better is her voicing of the occasional visits of Mr. Grey, whose voice is wonderfully somber and contrasts beautifully with the sweet live cat Esmée. D.P.D. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2013]