The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

First, this book is meaningless without reading the series in order. This could be read alone, but there is so much that bleeds from the last book, 5 books ago, 10 books ago, etc. that this entry will make far less sense.

As I’ve read these in order over the past three years (With hundreds of other books interspersed in between), I’ve wondered when i would wrap it all. Aiming for the 3 year anniversary August 22nd.
In that three years I’ve more and more enjoyed the romps through Pickax than any other series I’ve read. Hope to find another so intriguing and fun.

This next to last entry is more visiting with fictitious friends, felines and families of Pickax. Much has occurred in between novels. Significant alterations in Pickax life is written here.
These books started as a mystery series. As the series as gone on, the series has become more of a 400 Miles North of Everywhere soap opera. A soap opera I don’t mind reading.
Though, there are a few troubles in the book.

As with the last couple books, there is significant repetition of situation in this book.
Also, with the thought others were writing these last few, I noted sentences and paragraphs that are reminiscent of ones found in earlier books. Was this Braun losing new ways to write or ghost writers swiping from other books? Apparently, the publisher is not talking.

Something I also noticed in this book is a significant mark of empathy of Qwilleran. In other books close friends die and he is written as carrying on without a care. In this one he is written to mourn of the four deaths of folks close to him that occur in this book.

Bottom line: I recommend this book. 5 out of ten points.

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