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The Cat Who Talked Turkey is one of the late Cat Who novels, with the formula in late comfortable form and the plot, such as it is, drifting through several months of Pickax life. Qwilleran and the Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum are again at the center of a low-key investigation, and the small-town Moose County texture remains the book's primary pleasure.
Braun by this point has been writing the series for so long that the books read almost as serialized fiction, with the same regulars rotating through the same small set of locations. Whether you enjoy this depends on how invested you are in the world she has built.
Three stars. Recommended only to series regulars. New readers should start at the beginning of the series with The Cat Who Could Read Backwards.
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