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The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell is one of the late Cat Who novels from Lilian Jackson Braun, with the formula in late comfortable form. Jim Qwilleran and the Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum are again at the center of a low-key Pickax investigation, and the small-town Moose County texture is the book's primary pleasure.
Braun by this point in her long run is writing more anecdotally than procedurally. The plot drifts pleasantly across the small daily texture of Mooseville and Pickax life. Fans of Joan Hess's Maggody mysteries or of Charlotte MacLeod's Sarah Kelling novels will recognize the careful comfort-cozy register operating in long-running form.
The pleasure is the regulars (Polly Duncan, Andrew Brodie, the Mooseville and Pickax community fixtures) rather than the mystery resolution.
Three stars. Recommended only to series regulars. The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell Lilian Jackson Braun book is not the entry point; new readers should start with The Cat Who Could Read Backwards for the cleanest introduction to the long series.
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