In this particular tale Ko Ko the hyper-intelligent crime solving feline, learns to turn on the tape player and play a particular Brahms song as a clue for his crime solving partner, Jack Qwilleran. I have to admit this talent was not as played up or used as often as it was in The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare. Actually, the Brahma sound just happen to be on the tape in which something else is record that really becomes the clue. Therefore, I didn't feel the cat knew Brahms as well as he knew Shakespeare. Although to be honest, it really didn't make me like the story any less, just different.
I really enjoyed that this in this story, the reader got to meet the woman that wills Qwill all this money and this wonderful home. She is pretty much what I pictured. Feisty and eccentric. I also got to learn about the beginnings of the relationships with characters that I had gotten to know in a later book. How Qwill meet them and how their relationship developed. It is one of the reasons that I will continue to read these books. That small Norther Exposure- like atmosphere and the quirky characters that fill it.
In this particular novel, Qwill and the cats first come to this tome to visit "Aunt Fanny," so Qwill can get away from his high pressure job to relax and work on his novel. Quickly Qwill starts to realize that the town does not trust stranger... and stranger than that... (pun intended) they all seem to be guarding secrets. This of course causes him to start to poke around and ultimately makes him a target for harassment and so on.
While I enjoyed the story and I am glad I read it, I really think that it would benefit the reader if you start at the beginning of the series and read forward. There is just so much change in characters and their relationships with each other that I need to read this development in order. With that said, the book does stand alone. I just think the overall experience is richer if you read them in order.
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