The Expo begins with a literal bang: a bomb wrecks the hotel, killing a housekeeper and causing extensive damage. Luckily for Pickax, Jim Qwilleran is on the scene, with suspicions that the bomb was intended as something stronger than a warning to someone. His evidence: Koko and Yum Yum's new interest in cheese, especially Gruyere, Brie, and Feta. Qwill and the Siamese are on a case that will demand all of his insight as well as their feline intuition.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781607472315
- File size: 198502 KB
- Duration: 06:53:32
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A billionaire journalist enjoys his life in small-town America with his two outgoing Siamese cats. All is not as serene as a Norman Rockwell illustration, however, as the town's population just happens to have a nasty murder now and then. As Qwilleran, the journalist, pursues a case that focuses on cheese (literally), we meet charming locals straight out of a Hallmark TV special. All the murders are bloodless. Sex is nonexistent. An easygoing listen is given dimension by George Guidall's stylish and witty voice. This is the perfect audiobook for fans of this series and those who are tired of sex and gore. D.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine -
January 29, 1996
One of the best in the 19-title Cat Who . . . series (one of which is a short-story collection), this latest adventure finds newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran more likable and his feline sleuthing partners, Siamese Yum Yum and Koko, more intuitive than ever. The small town of Pickax City is about to celebrate the Great Food Expo when a stranger moves into the community's dismal, but only, hotel. Both events engage even the reticent Qwill, as townsfolk get ready for restaurant openings and a pastry bake-off while trying to find out more about the mysterious woman. Qwill gets the jump on everyone when he runs into the woman at his summer cabin, but before he can learn much about her, a bomb explodes in her hotel room while she is out and kills one of the staff. When the woman then vanishes, Qwill suspects she is a fugitive fearing for her life. While the police investigate, attention is redirected toward the Food Expo, in which Qwill participates as both food judge and bachelor auction prize. But the hotel bombing and the mysterious woman are never far from his thoughts, nor from the inspired cogitations of Koko, who neatly untangles a web of eccentric characters and mistaken identities. Mystery Guild and Readers Digest Condensed Book selection; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate.
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