The Cat Who Saw Stars

By Lilian Jackson Braun

Book Overview

Jim Qwilleran and his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, have a close encounter with a killer in this mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series. UFOs in Mooseville? Rumors abound that a missing backpacker has been abducted, and it looks like Jim Qwilleran's sedate summer may be interrupted by an investigation--with the help of his own little aliens, Koko and Yum Yum. And when the backpacker's body turns up--and transplanted Floridian Owen Bowen is found dead soon afterward--the search for intelligent life turns into a hunt for a murderer...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515127396
• ISBN13: 9780515127393
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

This book is 400miles in the middle of nowhere.

This is my first and frankly, my last attempt at reading a book by Lilian Jackson Braun. Up to now, the only books that I could not stand were pulp romances. I have found a new can't stand book, and this is it. I hope I never run into the target audience. Because I do not like negative reviews, I can say the binding is well-made. The book is not too heavy. Oh, they also made a CD on this one.

So good!

She writes delightful mystries! Ten pages in and her characters are fully fleshed and I am utterly engaged! In fact to engaged to go back and figure out how she did it! She has captured me and she won't let go until the end! Enjoy every book of hers that you can get your hands on!

A Month at the Lake

When Polly vacations in Canada for a month, Qwill picks up and moves to the cabin on the lake. He and the cats have a grand time getting to know people and looking for interesting stories. A couple from Florida open a new restrauant. The man mysteriously falls overboard one day while on a picnic with his wife on the lake. Qwill and Koko know something is amiss. I liked this instalment of, "The Cat Who," series. It wasn't as exciting as some of the others but it was cozy and entertaining.

A different idea

I think it is great that Lilian Jackson Braun is investigating other avenues of entertaining her readers. I found this book to be interesting. I enjoy reading about what Qwill, Koko and Yum Yum are doing. Lilian Jackson Braun writes well and she keeps me interested no matter if the mystery is as difficult as other ones or not. UFO's are a mystery in and off themselves!

May not be Shakespeare, but still lots of fun

I liked this book. I loved the ending. These books are fun. For great literature, I read the classics! For fun light reading I like Lilian Braun. I loved the UFO theme running through this book. But most of all I love her characters and her locations. When I'm reading her books I feel like I'm on vacation. Who doesn't need that?

Reading Lilian Braun is like eating comfort food.

I logged on to this site to confirm my opinion that Braun had written another successful "Cat Who.." book. Very surprised to see that I was probably in the minority. Come on folks! You read Lilian Braun to nestle in the world of Pickax and Mooseville and to let the real world disappear for a while. She's even gotten me to tolerate cats--at least literary ones. I hope the cat books go on forever. I need my yearly fix.