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Still, no one expects the day to end in tragedy. There’s sure to be some emotional fireworks at Montpelier. But the glorious thoroughbreds and the pinks and greens and purples worn by the riders do not blind Harry to the dangerous undercurrents that start to surface. Postmistress Mary Minor ‘Harry’ Haristeen will be in the thick of the action on this day of high spirits and fierce competition. The race meet offers a cracking good time with old friends and a chance to get even on the racecourse with old enemies. The annual steeplechase races at Montpelier, once the home of James and Dolley Madison, are the high point in the social calendar of the horse mad Virginians of cozy Crozet. Only to find themselves a whisker away from becoming the killer’s next victims. Murphy, her friend Tucker, and her human companion Harry begin to sort throughout the clues… No one knows who the dead man is, but when a grisly clue makes a spectacular appearance in the middle of the fall festivities, more than an early winter snow begins chilling the blood of Crozet’s very best people. Could his one little imperfection be that he’s a killer? Blair becomes the most likely suspect when the pieces of a dismembered corpse begin tuming up around Crozet. Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, believe he smells A okay. When Blair Bainbridge comes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakers lose no time in declaring him perfect for their newly divorced postmistress, Marry Minor ‘Harry Haristeen.’ Even Harry’s tiger cat, Ms. Small towns don’t take kindly to strangers unless the stranger happens to be a drop dead gorgeous and seemingly unattached male. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the cat’s meow… Murphy could alert her somehow, Harry could uncover the culprit before the murder occurs and before Harry finds herself on the killer’s mailing list. Meanwhile, Harry is conducting her own investigation, unaware her pets are one step ahead of her. Murphy and Tucker begin to scent out clues. Intent on protecting their human friend, Mrs. When Crozet’s citizens start turning up murdered, Harry remembers that each received a card with a tombstone on the front and the message ‘ Wish You Were Here‘ on the back. Murphy and a Welsh Corgi Tucker, a pending divorce, and a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. Crozet’s thirty something post mistress, Mary Minor ‘Harry’ Haristeen, has a tiger cat Mrs. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town until its secrets explode into murder. Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together…Īnd everyone keeps secrets. Murphy and her human companion, Mary Minor ‘Harry’ Haristeen.
And all the while, Jeep Reed, the sassiest wit in the West, has a bold plan for Red Rock Valley in which they all will play a part.Ĭuriosity just might be the death of Mrs. Baxter and King team up when it comes time to protect their humans. Mags and Pete have mysteries to solve, among them why they are so drawn to each other.
In her search to find out whodunit, Mags uncovers fascinating history about Jeep s ranch, including an intriguing connection to Buffalo Bill. He s also called out to Wings Ranch when human bones are dug up in Jeep s barn the dead man s ring identifies him as an elite Russian military officer from the late 1800s, apparently knifed to death. Deputy Pete Meadows links the sabotage to a string of local murders, but he doesn t yet know if it s a corporate plot or twisted eco terrorism.
Meanwhile, someone pipe bombs Red Rock Valley s pumping station, endangering the water supply near and far. The growlings are mutual: King sniffs that Baxter is a fuzzy sausage. At her side to Baxter s low down distress is Jeep s loyal German Shepherd mix, King. From piloting planes in World War II to discovering one of America s largest gold deposits, Jeep has enjoyed a lifetime jam packed with love and adventure, and she s not done yet. Mags was named for her great aunt, Magdalena though everyone calls the spry octogenarian rancher Jeep.
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In the passenger seat, with his suspicious nose to a cracked window, is Mags s beloved wirehaired dachshund, the urbane Baxter. With the ruins of her high powered Wall Street job now far in the rearview mirror of her rented silver Camaro, thirty two year old Mags Rogers arrives at her great aunt Jeep’s sprawling Wings Ranch to reassemble her life.
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Explosive sabotage and the startling unearthing of a hundred year old skeleton on a Nevada ranch thrillingly start off this debut novel in a tail wagging new series from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown.
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