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4.0 out of 5 stars: The Dying Embers Of A Fine Series,
Amazon Review By S. Linkletter September 14, 2012

This book appears to have been finished somewhat sketchily, but its author was over 90 at the time it was published (2006). Books about mundane everyday life and living with cats probably bore mystery buffs, and that's what this one was really about. Even with the loose ends in this book, the story was interesting enough for me. The short fictional interview in the back, where Qwill interviews the author, tells me that she knew herself to be near her own ending (2011). It sounded so very much like his interviews of elderly women who died not long after, in the series. Alas, in real life people take much longer at dying, and do so with less dignity, than happens in fiction. But, that's why we like to read fiction, isn't it?

I salute the memory of Lillian Jackson Braun, and I give this book four stars because I really did enjoy reading it. I can't give it five stars because it wasn't tied together properly at the end. I certainly won't give it three stars or less because I have plenty of books in my library that make less sense than this one, which I enjoyed much less and which were written by authors in their prime.