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Book Review of The Cat Who Played Brahms (Cat Who...Bk 5)

The Cat Who Played Brahms (Cat Who...Bk 5)
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A Jim Qwilleran, newspaper reporter, and his two Siamese cats mystery. He decides he needs a vacation and plans to spend the summer lakeside 400 miles away so he takes a leave from his newspaper job. He stays at a cabin belonging to Aunt Fanny,a nonrelative, but close friend of Qwilleran's mother and someone she hasn't seen in 40 years. She has reestablished contact with him.

He's staying in a basically rural area, Pickaxe City in Moose County, whose resident are pretty insular referring to the city he came from as "Down Below" and their area a "Up Here". He finds a number of mysterious happenings going on and starts investigating them recieving little help from ares residents.

Good storyline with a bit of humor as well.