num_pages: 320
description: In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown Mary Minor Harry Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in eighteenth-century Virginiauncovering a shocking secret that refuses to stay buried. TALL TAIL At any moment a perfect summer day in Crozet Virginianestled within the Blue Ridge Mountainsmight turn stormy and tempestuous as Harry knows too well when a squall suddenly sweeps in. In a blink Harrys pickup nearly collides with a careening red car that then swerves into a ditch. Harry recognizes the dead driver slumped over the vehicles steering wheel: Barbara Leader was nurse and confidante to former Virginia governor Sam Holloway. Though Barbaras death is ruled a heart attack dissenting opinions abound. After all she was the picture of health which gives Harry and her four-legged companions pause. A baffling break-in at a local business leads Harry to further suspect that a person with malevolent intent lurks just out of sight: Something evil is afoot. As it happens Barbara died in the shadow of the local cemeterys statue of the Avenging Angel. Just below that imposing funereal monument lie the remains of one Francisco Selisse brutally murdered in 1784. Harrys present-day sleuthing draws her back to Virginias slave-holding past and the hunt for Selisses killer. Now its up to Harry and her furry detectivesMrs. Murphy Pewter and Tee Tuckerto expose the bitter truth even if it means staring into the unforgiving eyes of history and cornering a callous killer poised to pounce. Praise for the Mrs. Murphy mysteries As feline collaborators go you couldnt ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown. The New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: Tall Tail
publisher: Bantam