Mrs. Murphy #16
Bantam
February 2008
On Sale: January 29, 2008
Featuring: Mary Minor โHarryโ Haristeen
272 pages ISBN: 0553803654 EAN: 9780553803655 Hardcover Add to Wish List
New York Times bestselling authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, return with a new mystery starring Mary Minor โHarryโ Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. But are they any match for a killer whoโs made an entire town suspect by committingโฆ
Autumn has arrived in cozy Crozet, Virginia, and that means the townโs inhabitants are hard at work in home and garden preparing for winter. Harry is planning to harvest her first crop of Petit Manseng grapes along with her beloved sunflowers. Meanwhile, her recent marriage to Fair and her friendship with Deputy Cynthia Cooper, whoโs rented nearby Blair Farm, are flourishing. But even when peace descends on the idyllic countryside, murder is lurking.
Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted โcome-hereโ set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. Sheโs determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friendsโand enemiesโand sheโs hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it.
From the start, the projectโand Mrs. Paulsonโ turns into a major headache relieved only by a side trip to study Thomas Jeffersonโs extraordinary summer home at Poplar Forest. Harry couldnโt foresee that a day later Mrs. Paulson would be found stabbed to death at a gala fund-raiser with Harryโs friend, Tazio Chappers, standing over her, holding the knife.
Now Harry must solve what seems to everyone else an open-and-shut case. Every other human, that is. For her four-legged friends see it Harryโs way. But will they have to choose between catching the purrfect killer or saving Harry?
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