This book is by far my favorite in the series so far. Qwill and the cats head to Pickax, a little town about 4 or 5 hours away from Down Below. He is staying in a cabin for a couple of months so he can write a novel. The cabin is owned by Aunt Fanny, who isn't really his aunt. When he arrives, he finds that in the town of Pickax, people do not lock their doors and people just go in and out of your house. Qwill goes fishing and thinks that he has caught a dead body wasn't sure. Then Aunt Fanny dies and Qwill is forced to go through her belongings to look for the elusive will. He then learns all about Aunt Fanny's sercret past and why she has so much money. Qwill's job and lifestyle hang in the balance at the end of the book, which makes the reader want to just run out and grab a copy of the next book in the series. I am anxious to see what the future holds for Qwill and the cats.

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I read all the books in this light-hearted series one after another and really enjoyed them. The cat KoKo and his feline partner, Yum Yum, are endearing. Their owner is a former newspaper reporter, James Qwilleran. They live in a small town with lots of interesting residents. James can't seem to avoid murders though he sure would like to. The series ended abruptly with unresolved relationships due to the author's death at 97.

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In this fifth book in the series, Qwill takes a leave of absence from work so he can spend the summer at a cabin in the woods to write a novel. The cabin belongs to his "Aunt" Fanny, a close friend of his mother's, whom he hasn't seen in 40 years. I thought this book was a little slower than the others, though still a quick read, easily done in a weekend. The books are like episodes in a television series that you look forward to each week.

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A Jim Qwilleran, newspaper reporter, and his two Siamese cats mystery. He decides he needs a vacation and plans to spend the summer lakeside 400 miles away so he takes a leave from his newspaper job. He stays at a cabin belonging to Aunt Fanny,a nonrelative, but close friend of Qwilleran's mother and someone she hasn't seen in 40 years. She has reestablished contact with him.

He's staying in a basically rural area, Pickaxe City in Moose County, whose resident are pretty insular referring to the city he came from as "Down Below" and their area a "Up Here". He finds a number of mysterious happenings going on and starts investigating them recieving little help from ares residents.

Good storyline with a bit of humor as well.

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