Rita Mae Brown
21) The sand castle
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Seven-year-old Nickel Smith spends the day at the beach with her mother, Juts, her aunt, Wheezie, and her aunt's eight-year-old grandson, Leroy, who recently lost his mother, listening to the women talk about their childhoods and building a sand castle.
22) Probable claws
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"Rita Mae Brown and her feline coauthor Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. As feline collaborators go, you couldn't ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown." The New York Times Book Review. With the New Year just around the corner, winter has transformed the cozy Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia, into a living snow globe. It's the...
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"Spring is peeking through the frost in Virginia, and though the hunting season is coming to a close, the foxes seem determined to put the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club through their paces. Sister and her friends are enjoying some of the best chases they've had all season when the fun is cut short by the theft of Crawford Howard's treasured Sir Alfred Munnings painting of a woman in hunting attire riding sidesaddle. When another painting goes...
24) Whisker of evil
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Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, her cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and her dog Tee Tucker, decide to do their own investigating when they stumble across the body of handsome local horse breeder Barry Monteith while out for a morning walk.
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The second honeymoon of Harry and Fair Haristeen in Shelbyville, Kentucky, goes awry when they attend a saddlebred show and their friend Joan's treasured pin goes missing, a horse groomer is found murdered, a movie star's mare is abducted, and the INS arrives looking for illegal aliens.
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Continuing in the exuberant tradition of Six of One, Bingo , and Loose Lips , New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown returns to her much-loved fictional hamlet of Runnymede, whose memorable citizens are welcoming both the end of the Great War and the beginning of a new era. The night a riot breaks out at the Capitol Theater movie house during a Mary Pickford picture, no less you can bet that the Hunsenmeir sisters, Louise and Julia, are...
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Mags and her dog Baxter, newcomers to Nevada, get a rude awakening to rural life when their water supply is threatened and Mags' great-aunt Jeep is accused of murder. Now she, and a group of friends, are trying to help squatters living in foreclosed homes, which means going up against Reno banks, the power company, and a politician who will do whatever it takes to get elected.
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Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch a Christmas tree at the tree farm run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients, when they find the tree they've chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. Can Harry, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker save the season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town of Crozet, Virginia, with murder?
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"Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia--and all the traditions of the changing seasons are under way. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen cleans her cupboards, her husband, Fair, prepares the horses for the shorter days ahead, and the clamorous barking of beagles signals the annual rabbit chase through the central Virginia hills. But the last thing the local beaglers and their hounds expect to flush out is a dead body....
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The discovery of a body in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains dredges up mysteries that have lingered from Revolutionary Virginia through the Civil War and beyond... A trial is underway in Albemarle County, where Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her trusty crew of two- and four-legged friends hope to catch a killer--who may not be the person accused of the crime. Since an old friend's body was discovered by the hunting club's faithful beagles, it...
33) Rest in pieces
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When parts of a corpse are found around town, postmistress Mary Minor Haristeen and her cat decide to investigate the murder.
34) Claws and effect
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When Hank Brevard, the plant manager of Crozet Hospital, is murdered in the hospital, Harry uncovers "a closed little world where ego, jealousy, and illicit love often collide. But it's Mrs. Murphy, roaming the netherworld of Crozet Hospital, who sniffs out the most telling fact: a secret room in the old section that dates back to the time of the Underground Railroad."--Jacket.
35) FOX TRACKS
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While outside on Manhattan's Midtown streets a fierce snowstorm rages ferociously, nothing can dampen the excitement inside the elegant ballroom of Manhattan's Pierre Hotel. Hunt clubs from all over North America have gathered for their annual gala, and nobody is in higher spirits than Sister Jane, Master of the Jefferson Hunt in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Braving the foul weather, Sister and her boyfriend, Gray Lorillard, pop out to purchase...
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"Sister" Jane Arnold, the septuagenarian master of Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, uses her common sense to try to solve the mystery of who killed a local woman and posed her corpse naked on a horse statue, while resident foxes, horses, and hounds devise their own theories about the murder.
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"Sister" Jane Arnold, master of Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, finds herself on the scent of a killer when she begins looking into the murder of Al Perez, the fund-raiser at the exclusive Custis Hall girls' school, whose body was found among the fake corpses hung as decorations for the Halloween dance.
38) Full cry
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Third and final installment in the trilogy featuring Sister Jane Arnold MFH, who finds a fellow Jefferson Hunt member dead.
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Mary Minor ("Harry") Haristeen is postmistress in the small town of Crozet, Virginia, and also runs a farm. When H. H. Donaldson, head of a local construction firm, is murdered in the parking lot of a sports arena, Harry insinuating herself into a murder investigation; and her fellow four-footed amateur detectives--tiger cat Mrs. Murphy; the fat gray Pewter; and corgi Tee Tucker--try to figure out how and why he was murdered.