Another cute Leger the cat detective story. Overall a good solid story, and I didn't really notice the shortness of it until I realized it was missing something that I thought might be neat to "see" unfold.

Leger, Bob, Lily, and their humans are all back at their hotel, for an opening weekend murder mystery event. Joining them are various guests, Tony and his doggie, Ginger and Amber and their humans. Watching them are the local cats. Plus the four Lithuanian women who worked on building the hotel.

Several of the cats run off into the night, mostly Amber and a new tomcat to the island, Massingham. Small slight adventure there, though mostly outside the frame of the page. There's this "bad vibe" that Massingham apparently gives off, noticeable to Lily and Leger, at least.

Most of the cats, humans, dogs, and action, though, remain at the hotel. Wherein the event that I thought might be neat to see unfold got interrupted. The play pretend murder mystery weekend almost became a real murder mystery weekend (or, I should say, became an actual attempted murder mystery weekend). So that kind of put a damper on the whole pretend murder mystery play.

Not sure what all else to note. All I've really done is ramble, again, instead of review. Was nice to see the kitties again. Also glad the mysteries in this series haven't tended to involve death.

Long running mysteries that include murder in each work always tend to end up seeming to be a little too shallow/empty/blasé about death. I'd stopped reading the Cat Who mysteries because the main human character just kind of shrugged when yet another person died near him. Waved his hands in the general direction. "Oh well, my cats howling, means another person had died *shrug, rolls over back to sleep*." And the mystery ended up being solved by others. Yet another person had their back-story given, only to be killed. To have a reason for the series.

Kind of went off topic there. Was just a mention of how murders seem to be the main bread and butter of mystery series, so I'm glad to find one that doesn't focus on having random people battered to death for the characters in the series to glance at and shrug about. ( )