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Nine lives to die : a Mrs. Murphy mystery / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrated by Michael Gellatly.
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- ISBN: 9780345530509 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Subject: | Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Women cat owners > Fiction. Women detectives > Virginia > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery stories. Mystery fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
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 25-year-old love triangle. 40,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
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 love triangle. - Random House, Inc.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SUSPENSE MAGAZINE
Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery starring Mary Minor âHarryâ Haristeen, intrepid kitty sleuths Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and Tee Tucker, the ever-faithful crime-solving corgi. This time around, Harry and her animal friends track a killer whose trail has gone as cold as the weather in December.
NINE LIVES TO DIE
Winter has come to Crozet, Virginia, bringing with it a fresh blanket of snow. Harry and her husband, Fair, are hip deep in their usual end-of-the-year activities: distributing food to needy residents, and shopping for outfits for the Silver Linings youth organizationâs annual fundraising gala. But buried beneath the white stuff are dark secrets from Crozetâs pastâand Harry and her posse of pet detectives are determined to sniff them out.
Two Silver Linings mentors have been found dead in suspicious circumstances. If that werenât enough to chill the bones of the locals, a pair of severed human fingers has turned up in a pencil jar in the bookkeeperâs office at St. Cyrilâs church. What does this grisly display have to do with the mysterious disappearance of Harryâs voluptuous high school Latin teacher, a quarter of a century ago? Maybe nothing. But when the animals make another gruesome discovery in the woods behind Harryâs farm, it becomes clear that terrible crimes have been committed in Crozetâand somebodyâs gone to great lengths to cover them up. Itâs time to stop shoveling snow and start digging for clues.
The truth will be revealed. A cold case will be solved. And a twenty-five-year-old love triangle is about to get untangled. The weather outside may be frightful, but Harry and her four-legged friends refuse to be spooked off the case.
Praise for Nine Lives to Die
âWitty and entertaining . . . a recipe for continued success and an engaging read.ââRichmond Times-Dispatch
âThe unabashed loves of [Rita Mae Brownâs] life . . . are infectious. Perhaps because they are so clearly heartfelt, itâs easy to be swept up in the glory of her passions.ââNew York Journal of Books
âMurder and mayhem are the order of the day in bestseller [Rita Mae] Brownâs well-plotted twenty-second Mrs. Murphy mystery. . . . Brownâs idyllic world, with its Christian values, talking animals, and sympathetic middle-aged pet owners, has understandably struck a chord with many readers.ââPublishers Weekly
âRita Mae Brown, along with . . . Sneaky Pie, have made Harry Harristeen and her feline companion, Mrs. Murphy, household names.ââLibrary Journal
Praise for the Mrs. Murphy mysteries
âAs feline collaborators go, you couldnât ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown.ââThe New York Times Book Review
