As early spring comes to Moose County, Jim Qwilleran is looking forward to the peaceful beauty of nature's rebirth. What he gets instead is a chorus of noisy birds that constantly wakes him from a sound sleep... especially when Koko insists on joining in with his own feline version of trying to say more than just "tweet tweet"... because a series of strange events-starting with an act of vandalism and culminating in a mysterious chain of death and disappearance-has Pickax in a similar uproar. It seems that this spring, a cat's fancy may turn to crime solving...