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Brown, Sneaky Pie, 1982-
Gellatly, Michael

Brown, Rita Mae

Brown, Sneaky Pie,1982-author.|Author
Gellatly, Michaelillustrator.|Illustrator

Brown, Rita Mae

Athens Drive Community
Cary Regional
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Southeast Regional
West Regional

Mystery

Athens Drive Community - Mystery
Cary Regional - Mystery
Middlecreek Community - Mystery
North Regional - Mystery
Oberlin Regional - Mystery
Remote Storage - Mystery
Southeast Regional - Mystery
West Regional - Mystery

"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. Murphy and Pewter, and ever-faithful Tee Tucker the corgi. TAIL GAIT Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginia--a time for old friends to gather and bid farewell to the doldrums of winter. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying a cozy dinner with some of the town's leading citizens, including beloved University of Virginia history professor Greg "Ginger" McConnell and several members of UVA's celebrated 1959 football team. But beneath the cloak of conviviality lurks a sinister specter from the distant past that threatens to put all their lives in jeopardy. When Professor McConnell is found murdered on the golf course the next day--gunned down in broad daylight by an unseen killer--no one can fathom a motive, let alone find a suspect. Just as Harry and her furry cohorts begin nosing into the case, however, a homeless UVA alum confesses to the crime. Trouble is, no one believes that the besotted former All-American could have done the foul deed--especially after Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker make another gruesome discovery. As the questions surrounding Ginger's death pile up, Harry's search for answers takes her down the fascinating byways of Virginia's Revolutionary past. The professor was something of a sleuth himself, it seems, and the centuries-old mystery he was unraveling may well have put a target on his back. As Harry edges closer to identifying an elusive killer, her animal companions sense danger--and rally to find a way to keep Harry from disappearing into history. Praise for the Mrs. Murphy mysteries "As feline collaborators go, you couldn't ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown."--The New York Times Book Review"-- "Returning to Virginia's post-revolutionary history and to characters introduced in Tail Gait, the story follows the Garth sisters and their husbands, neighbors to a brutal slaveholder whose murder at the hands of one of his slaves is neither unexpected nor unwarranted, especially when the impetus was an attack on that slave's wife. The sisters manage to smuggle the fugitive to safety in York, Pennsylvania, while ensuring that the circumstances underlying the entire ordeal stay long buried. Until now. Harry and her animal companions come closer to drawing a link between the past and the present. And in this centuries-spanning caper, they will discover that hiding who you really are may have mortal consequences.... As the questions surrounding"--

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Fiction

Fiction

BROWN

Wake County Public Libraries

Athens Drive Community
Cary Regional
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
West Regional

9780553392463

2016

Bantam Books

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Mrs. Murphy mystery

Mrs. Murphy mystery|

Cats -- Fiction
Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Mystery fiction
Women cat owners -- Fiction
Women detectives -- Virginia -- Fiction

Tall tail

Tall tail / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrated by Michael Gellatly

Tall tail

Cats
Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character)
Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character)
Women cat owners
Women detectives