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.

When her new husband joins the hastily organized Confederate Army, Geneva changes her name to Jimmy, dons a uniform, and enlists to be with her beloved.

A controversial miracle in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains sparks religious fervor, and a suspicious death.

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.

In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lust--until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. ---(Amazon)

It is often said that the best comedy springs from hard times. And Rita Mae Brown has seen plenty of those. In this irresistibly readable memoir, she recounts the drama of her birth as the illegitimate daughter of a flighty blue blood who left her in an orphanage. The sickly baby was quickly rescued by relatives eager to adopt her but afraid she would not survive the long journey home. Her determination to live, and shock everyone by doing it, has...

On a visit to the vineyards of Crozet, Virginia, world renowned grape and fungus expert Professor Vincent Forland loses his head-literally. Now it is up to Mary Minor Haristeen and her sleuthing animals to sniff out a killer before someone else dies.

Harry Haristeen is never idle, dividing her time between raising crops; taking care of her veterinarian husband, Fair; indulging her passion for classic cars; and adding to her reputation as a nosy neighbor. Harry's friend Miranda Hogendobber's car ends up in a drainage ditch. The Very Reverend Herbert Jones's Chevy pick-up abruptly goes kaput. But these mishaps are nothing compared to the state of a mechanic discovered by Harry: his head's been bashed...