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Rita Mae Brown
When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw in…
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Politicians fight like cats and dogs, but when things take a deadly turn at the Virginia House of Delegates, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen calls on her beloved pets to help…
An eye-wateringly expensive watch is found discarded on the land days prior to a dead body turning up. "Sister" Jane Arnold sets out to find the connection between the two…
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There are three young brothers in this story and the oldest has been given the responsibility to be his mothers helper; considered the man of the house. He always seem…
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David, the oldest child in this story, even at age ten, spent most of his young life as the man of the house. His dad left their family, and his…
As master of a prestigious hunt club, Jane Arnold is most revered in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountain town where a rigid code of social conduct carries more weight than…
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A century-old crime reawakens bad will–and stirs up a scandal that chills Sister Jane to the bone –
While spending the first anniversary of her husband’s death enjoying a pastime they both loved–fox hunting–widow and single mother Cig Blackwood discovers that her husband died in the arms of…
A busy holiday season for Harry, her husband, and her posse of pet detectives is interrupted by dark secrets from the community’s past involving a cold case and a twenty-five-year-old…
In Animal Magnetism, the bestselling author shares the lessons she’s learned from a parrot, a courageous Doberman, a horse, a tough tiger cat, and other marvelous creatures as well as…
From New York Times -bestselling author Brown comes a delightfully suspenseful and engaging new mystery featuring Sister Jane Arnold, Master of Foxhounds.
A misdiagnosis of cancer leads successful art dealer Mary Frazier Armstrong to send letters to her loved ones in which she comes out of the closet–letters she wants to retrieve…
The delightful cast of human and animal characters from Brown’s bestselling foxhunting series returns in a new tale of murder and Southern social graces.
It’s dead cold in Crozet, Virginia, but the college basketball season is heating up. In their 11th outing, Mary Minor Harry Haristeen and her sleuthing pets investigate the suspicious death…
The uncannily perceptive feline, Mrs. Murphy, detects a pattern to the murders claiming the inhabitants of tiny Crozet, Virginia, which seem to be linked to a hoax in the obituary…
In a story written from Sneaky Pie’s perspective, the intrepid feline sleuth temporarily halts her busy writing career to run for President, a campaign marked by a revolutionary animal-rights agenda…
It’s the start of fox-hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day…
Harry Haristeen and Mrs. Murphy, feline sleuth extraordinaire, are back in their latest adventure. When Harry and Fair are robbed the first day they arrive on their long-delayed honeymoon, Mrs…
The dogs are back for another Wild West adventureNthis time to save a community of abandoned houses in Reno, NevadaNin the big-hearted second book of the newest bestselling canine mystery…
In the third novel of the bestselling author’s captivating foxhunting series, the delightful cast of human and animal characters from Outfoxed returns in a new tale of murder and mayhem…
Outrageous, irrepressible and endlessly entertaining, the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo spins a behind-the-scenes tale of women’s professional tennis that dramtically intertwines the heart-stopping excitement of competition and…
In her most recent New York Times bestseller, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Geneva Chatfield and Nash Hart, who are married just five days before the South secedes…
From the outspoken and irreverent multi-million-copy bestselling author, here is the first trade paperpack publication of Brown’s writing manual. Unlike most writers’ guides, hers has as much to do with…
Following up Wish You Were Here, their debut mystery, the New York Times bestselling author and her feline coauthor return with a tantalizing tale. Rest in Pieces is set in…
Crozet, Virginia, postmistress and town gossip Mary Minor Harry Haristeen gets help from her nosy tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, in solving the strange case of a murdered Hell’s Angel and…
An annual Civil War reenactment in Crozet, Virginia, turns bloody when a local landowner is shot, and age-old feuds over water and land rights have postmistress Mrs. Murphy and her…
An ideal companion to Brown’s comic classics, Six of One and Bingo , this novel continues the story of sisters Julia and Louise Hunsenmeir, whose quarrels grow serious when Louise…
An old skeleton uncovered beneath the slave quarters of Monticello and a new murder in Crozet, Virginia, bring together tiger-striped Mrs. Murphy and Welsh Corgi Tee Tucker to solve the…
New York Times -bestselling author Brown bounds to the front of the pack with a thrilling new mystery in her beloved foxhunting series featuring the indomitable Sister Jane Arnold and…
In their 10th mystery, Mary Minor Harry Haristeen, her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, her portly gray cat Pewter, and of course, feline sleuth extraordinare, Mrs. Murphy, arrive in small Crozet…
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…
In this new foxhunting mystery, an investigation into a missing and very valuable object flushes out murder, ghosts, and old family rivalries. Sister Jane Arnold and a pack of four-legged…
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…
Mary Minor Harry Haristeen gets a little help from her veterinarian husband to solve the murder of a young equine vet whose death may be linked to his new clinic…
A blackmailer targeting wealthy members of "Sister" Jane Arnold's club has turned the hunters into the hunted in this thrilling mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown.
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Ah, spring! The brighter days and singing birds have a way of lifting people’s spirits, as well as those of their animal companions. But the season can also bring out…
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Continuing to be one of Brown’s most popular novels, this prequel to Bingo is both a high-spirited romp of love in its many guises and a story of the darker…
Winter in Crozet, Virginia, has postmistress Mary Minor Harry Haristeen embroiled in a twisted mystery after the director of the hospital turns up dead. Tigercat Mrs. Murphy, roaming the underworld…
Brown outdoes herself in this fifth thrilling mystery of murder and splendor in Virginia fox hunting country–the first to focus on the beloved hounds.
Only Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle, could have written a novel as passionately delightful as Southern Discomfort. Here is a witty, warm and pentrating tale of two decades…
Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Full of infectious merriment…
There’s nothing like a tail well told. Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor Harry Haristeen, crime-solving cats Mrs…
In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown, Mary Minor Harry Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in…
Rita Mae Brown’s fascinating recreation of the life of Dolley Madison is a masterful blend of fact and fiction. Dolley was the remarkable First Lady who had the President’s ear…
Winter blizzards bring a flurry of cases to solve in this riveting new foxhunting mystery featuring Sister Jane Arnold and her incorrigible hounds from New York Times -bestselling author Brown…
Mary Minor ‘Harry’ Harristeen and her pet sleuths uncover a rotten scam to dupe consumers when they discover that substandard produce is being passed off for organic, upmarket groceries. As…
‘Sister’ Jane Arnold tries to keep an open mind about the new townspeople who have moved in so close to the Jefferson Hunt Club–yet so far from its traditions. But…
