The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal. On a quest for peace and solitude, Qwilleran heads for Big Potato Mountain, where he discovers quite the opposite. A real estate tycoon, who had tried to develop the Potatoes, has been murdered. Qwilleran thinks the accused man--one of the locals--is innocent and is soon on his way to discovering the truth behind the crime. LG and Mystery Guild Selections.
A murder in the mountains has Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum feeling on edge in this mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series.

Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes. But Hawkinfield paid a steep price for his enterprise: He was pushed off a cliff by an angry mountain dweller. Qwilleran, however, suspects the man is innocent--and Koko's antics have him convinced something's wrong. He may be making a mountain out of a molehill...but he's determined to find the truth. Even if it means jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire