The Cat Who Sang for the Birds
Book #20
by Lilian Jackson Braun

My rating: 5 / 5
Genre: Cozy mystery

Former crime reporter Jim Qwilleran is certain something fishy is going on when an elderly woman’s home is vandalized and then burned down. With an early spring in the offing, birds and butterflies provide some distraction for both man and cat, but that won’t keep him off the trail of a killer.

While Qwilleran spends a lot of his time suspecting a certain person/company of dirty dealings, I had a different culprit in mind, and even fingered a henchman for that culprit, for reasons that I thought were rather obvious. But where in the previous book, I thought that the predictability of the stories in this series were beginning to make it less enjoyable for me, I didn’t mind figuring a lot of the mystery out early this time. I think that’s because the story itself—the plot and even the characters—was all more engaging and enjoyable this time. Plus, Qwilleran’s reason for suspecting who he did makes perfect sense in the context of the rest of the series, and I actually enjoyed the way he ranted ineffectually against the perceived villain. Overall, I felt that it was one of the better books in the series.

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