There is almost no suspense about the mysteries in this series, which is actually fine. The book is relaxing and doesn't make you care too much. It is guilty of throwing the entire plot development which would make up an entire other book into a paragraph of exposition after the climax. Cat Who books really have to be judged against others in the series, as an easy, if not guilty, pleasure. By those standards, this does a better job than a lot of them of justifying the book as relevant to the mystery. However the setting was a bit dull.