Is it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life. With cats Koko and Yum Yum for company, Qwill heads for a cabin owned by a family friend. But from the moment he arrives, things turn strange. Eerie footsteps cross the roof at midnight. Local townsfolk become oddly secretive. And then, while fishing, Qwill hooks on to a murder mystery while Koko develops a sudden and uncanny fondness for classical music...
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Lilian Jackson Braun began writing her Cat Who... detective series when one of her own Siamese cats mysteriously fell to its death from her apartment block. She and her husband, Earl, live in the mountains of North Carolina.
Praise for the Cat Who... series: 'The fastidious plotting is designed to appeal to more than just the cat-lover' The Times; 'This droll and engaging mystery...firmly grips the reader...a lively witty tale bolstered by sharply etched characters' Publishers Weekly; 'An engaging tongue-in-cheek yarn with a sting in the tail that won't just appeal to the cat-lover' Belfast Telegraph; 'It's a Wonderful Life meets The Aristocats in this daft but endearing whodunnit' Liverpool Daily Post; 'Mrs Braun has a breezy style; the cats are really smart' New York Times Book Review; 'Great fun!' Lawrence Block 'Entertaining and absorbing mysteries which, in the tradition of all good whodunnits, keep you guessing right to the end' Dumfries and Galloway Standard 'Lilian Jackson Braun purveys delight from beginning to end' Los Angeles Times 'Like news from Lake Woebegon, Braun's Cat Who... series...has charmed readers' Publishers Weekly 'Light-hearted originals... The mix of crime and cats [is] catnip to readers who like both' Chicago Sun-Times 'An offbeat series with a good deal of charm' The Baltimore Sun 'Braun writes with charm and sureness' Cleveland Plain Dealer
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