Book Review: The Cat Who Said Cheese

This will be a little more difficult to review, as I had the reading interupted by an excursion to Las Vegas, which always results in a loss of short term memory.

Qwilleran is now four or five years into living 400 miles north of everywhere and Moose County is once again beset with the mysterious deaths of some people from "down below". The story begins with the appearance and sudden departure of a mysterious dark lady after a traumatic explosion which wrecks the only hotel in Pickax. Qwilleran meets a cast of new characters, including the owner of the Pickax hotel, a quiet Beekeeper, and the mysterious dark lady. The story is developed around the Great Food Explo and Qwills (and the cat's) development of cheese gourmets. In the process, Qwilleran learns how to cook a turkey, is auctioned off at a charity celebrity auction, helps Polly recover from a surgery, and solves the string of murders, with the help of Koko. This is the episode where Qwilleran discovers that Koko has more wiskers than the normal cat, which may account for his catly ESP.

I enjoyed this one. The plot was nicely developed. The characters were developed and positioned, and the mystery was unravelled slowly but neatly throughout.

I give The Cat Who Said Cheese 4 out of 5 bookmarks. Enjoy!