THE CAT WHO KNEW SHAKESPEARE

The cats behave with their usual preternatural insight and intelligence as Braun makes another entry in her bestselling series. Jim Qwilleran, with his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, is trying to make sense of his new life in the Moose County town of Pickax in rural Minnesota. Murder intervenes. Golden Voice George Guidall is clearly playing to his expected audience. His characterizations are sometimes prissy and often bitchy, all conveyed by tone of voice. Were one to understand no English except personal names, one would have no doubt discerning the villains and the heroes. This is a mannered mystery in the classic sense, and few could deliver it better than Guidall. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/ NOV 06]