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Review title: Series is a shadow of its former self
Product review: The Cat Who Series has been delighting readers for many years, but perhaps it has outlived its welcome at this point. In the latest installment, Quill's K Foundation is bankrolling a new bookstore which will be run by his lady love, Polly, the former librarian of Pickax. All of the usual characters are in the book, along with Alden Wade, a smooth operator who has just moved to town. He charms the locals and ends up marrying one of the wealthiest women in town under suspicious circumstances. His stepson appears briefly in the book, but makes a hasty exit before he does much to impact the story. Alden seems to be a lethal husband as two of his wives die, but there is no resolution in the book, just a lot of questions written in Quill's journal at the end. Braun is at her best when she writes of the gentle interactions of Quill and his friends, but the well-constructed mysteries of her early books have been absent for some time.
