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| Author/Contributor(s): | Brown, Rita Mae |
| Publisher: | Bantam |
| Date: | 1/27/2009 |
| Binding: | Mass-market Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Bestselling authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, SneakyPie Brown, return with a mystery starring Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, the sleuthingcats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. But are they any match for a killerwho’s made an entire town suspect by committing…
THE PURRFECT MURDER
Autumn has arrived in cozy Crozet,Virginia, and that means the town’s inhabitants are hard at work in home and gardenpreparing for winter. Harry is planning to harvest her first crop of Petit Mansenggrapes along with her beloved sunflowers. Meanwhile, her recent marriage to Fairand her friendship with Deputy Cynthia Cooper, who’s rented nearby Blair Farm, areflourishing. But even when peace descends on the idyllic countryside, murder is lurking.
Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted “come-here” set who has descendedon Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. She’s determinedto make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friends—and enemies—and she’ s hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it.
From the start, the project—and —turns into a major headache relieved only by a side trip to study ThomasJefferson’s extraordinary summer home at Poplar Forest. Harry couldn’t foresee thata day later Mrs. Paulson would be found stabbed to death at a gala fund-raiser withHarry’s friend, Tazio Chappers, standing over her, holding the knife.
Now Harrymust solve what seems to everyone else an open-and-shut case. Every other human,that is. For her four-legged friends see it Harry’s way. But will they have to choosebetween catching the purrfect killer or saving Harry?
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