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Autumn has descended on Crozet, Virginia, ideal conditions for a scenic drive for Harry and husband Fair. Harrys nose for trouble leads her straight to a cornfields macabre scarecrow-an all too real murder victim that frightens all but the noisy crows. This accountants gruesome death is only the first of many disturbing events in this normally pastoral corner of the world. While Harry tends her beloved grapes and sunflowers, a killer edges closer-as...
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Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 32
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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 her crack the case and stop the fur from flying in this latest mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Spring flowers may be about to bloom in Crozet, Virginia, but Harry is thinking about snow. Her dear friend Ned Tucker is in the House of Delegates,...
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Midnight Louie mysteries volume 21
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Temple Barr is a PR hotshot promoting a weeklong televised charity event, Dancing with the Celebs. She's got the perfect celebrity for the show: her fiance, Matt Devine. He's a little dubious but agrees to the scheme. But while Matt struggles to master the sexy moves of the tango, accidents cripples the production, and it becomes clear that a killer stalks the dance floor.--From publisher's description.
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At the Blue Dahlia, where homicide detective Carmen Molina moonlights as a torch singer, she finds a dead woman lying in the parking lot. The words "she left" are spray-painted nearby. Soon, a second anonymous woman is found dead in another parking lot. Is a serial killer at work? Will the tough lieutenant have to resort to accepting help from the despised amateur sleuth Temple Barr to crack the case? Meanwhile, Midnight Louie, Temple's jet-black...
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Midnight Louie mysteries volume 13
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[2001]
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Feline sleuth Midnight Louie and his human sidekick, PR expert Temple Barr, investigate the killing of a big-game hunter in the company of a leopard named Osiris, stolen from his magician owner just days before
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Midnight Louie mysteries volume 20
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[2008]
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Temple's aunt Kit falls for one of the Fontana brothers, a reputed ex-mobster with a heart of gold. When the bachelor party is hijacked, can Louie bail out his humans and save the day?
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Mrs. Murphy volume 14
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c2006
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The tiny town of Crozet is abuzz with the talk of grapes and how to protect the finicky crop when an outspoken wine grower is murdered. A competitor is blamed for his death, and suddenly the expensive hobby takes on a much more serious tone. As Harry tries to figure out why a non-native species of insect pest has appeared in her peach orchard, her animal companions--tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, corgi Tucker, and "big boned" feline Pewter--discover another...
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Joe Grey volume 9
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c2004
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A young, healthy waiter drops dead and a series of big-time thefts lead Joe Grey and Dulcie to challenge evil yellow-eyed Azrael to get to the bottom of the misdeads
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Joe Grey volume 10
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c2005
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Readers and reviewers alike have consistently praised multiple-award-winning author Shirley Rousseau Murphy for her absorbing plots, her charming, lyrical prose, and most of all, her delightful and highly realistic feline sleuths -- the wily tomcat Joe Grey, his best pal Dulcie, and their tattercoat friend Kit. Now Murphy has created her most compelling novel to date: the murder of a much-beloved actress and the havoc it uncovers in an unsuspecting...
52) Toasting Tina
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2004.
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Schemer Tina Vale, publisher of Corsair Books, slept her way to the top, making many enemies on the way. Now she's going after an old enemy, single mom and literary agent Jane Stuart. Nearly twenty years ago, Tina lost out to Jane when Jane married Kenneth, someone Tina wanted.
Now Tina makes Jane pay for it. She cancels Jane's multi-million-dollar publishing contract with Corsair. Jane is damaged financially, but by having the past stirred up, Jane...
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Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 10
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c2002
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When a shooting leads to the discovery of a half-million crisp, clean dollar bills that look to be very dirty, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen's blood is really up. But by the time she's close to fingering a cold-blooded murderer, Mrs. Murphy (cat deetective) already knows who it is--and who's next in line. She also knows that Harry, curious as a caat, does not have nine lives. And the one she does have is hanging by the thinnest of threads.
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Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 12
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c2004
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A mysterious death in a Virginia farm town has the locals scratching their heads - while frisky feline Mrs. Murphy and her friends, fat-cat Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker, uncover clues as the curl their way around a cold-blooded killer.
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Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 4
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1996
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Once again murder and mayhem have come to Brown's (Wish You Were Here, LJ 11/1/90) sleepy little town of Crozet, Virginia, heralded by the arrival of a leather-clad biker who storms up to historic Ash Lawn (James Monroe's home) demanding to see the "thieving slut" Malibu and upsetting the docents.
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Midnight Louie mysteries volume 7
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[1997]
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PI Temple Barr and her cat, Midnight Louie, investigate the death of an actor in Las Vegas. A womanizer, the actor was being harassed by someone claiming to be his daughter. Temple's probe is held against the background of a romance with an ex-priest. By the author of Cat with the Emerald Eye.
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[2012]
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It's been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town's been deluged, and now the local artists' co-op is on the verge of flooding. Kathleen has been working hard to help her friends move their creations to the safety of the upstairs studio. The artwork survives, but when controversial mask-maker Jaeger Merrill is found drowned in the so-op basement, Kathleen questions whether the death was accidental. With the help of handsome detective...
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