Rita Mae Brown, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-553-09973-7
The bestselling author of Southern fiction, screenplays and mysteries (the last, Murder, She Meowed, coauthored with a cat named Sneakie Pie) has produced an inspiring and flavorful autobiography. Of itself, the skeleton of Brown's life promises--and
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Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. Bantam, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-53050-9
Murder and mayhem are the order of the day in bestseller Brown’s well-plotted 22nd Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2013’s The Litter of the Law). A winter charity function ends badly when wealthy car dealer Pete Vavilov, a leader of the Silver Linings...
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Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. Bantam, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-53048-6
Chapter one of bestseller Brown’s enchanting 21st Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2012’s The Big Cat Nap) finds Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her veterinarian husband, Fare, enjoying a drive through the central Virginia countryside one beautiful...
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Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. Bantam, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-345-53044-8
Brown’s 20th Mrs. Murphy mystery marks a welcome return to cozy form after the didacticism of 2011’s Hiss of Death. A car accident strikes Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, the postmistress of Crozet, Va., as a little odd. Harry’s suspicions grow as...
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Rita Mae Brown. Ballantine, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-51183-6
In Brown's provocative second novel featuring wealthy Reno, Nev., octogenarian Jeep Reed (after 2010's A Nose for Justice), Jeep takes on nothing less daunting than solving the national financial crisis. Starting with a handful of foreclosed homes...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Ballantine Books $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-42818-9
Set in Virginia's foxhunting country, Brown's latest, anthropomorphic mystery will appeal mainly to devoted fans of her animal-centric Sneaky Pie novels (Cat on the Scent, etc.). Jane Arnold, septuagenarian master of the venerable Jefferson Hunt, is
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09605-7
As a fantastic plot device, time travel doesn't compare in originality to narration by a cat, but Brown's new novel, in which a modern-day Virginian is transported back to 1699, proves every bit as giddily enjoyable as her series of Mrs. Murphy...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08890-8
If one can acquiesce to the rather leisurely pace of most of this fictional portrait of First Lady Dolley Madison, the payoff will be Brown's re-creation of Dolley's psychological, political and social insights into life in the nation's capital...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09199-1
The risible title is arguably the best thing about Brown's latest comic novel, the tale of a woman who unwittingly comes out of the closet in midlife when she is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Under the impression that she is on her deathbed,...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Bantam Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05306-7
The author of Rubyfruit Jungle packs an astonishing number of characters and severed loyalties into this amusing, poignant tale, set in fictional Runnymede, Md., a town divided by the Mason-Dixon line, where feuds erupt with the regularity of the...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Bantam Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05246-6
The author of Rubyfruit Jungle and other novels, film and TV scripter, Brown here gives nonwriters and writers alike a book to enjoy quite apart from its instructional value. The tone is stern but empathetic, spiced by the author's sassy wit and...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Crossing Press $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89594-247-0
As a poet, Brown has a decidedly tin ear. First published in 1971 and 1973 as The Hand that Cradles the Rock and Songs to a Handsome Woman, these poems are concerned primarily with the women's movement and women loving women. A few titles: ""Dancing
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Bantam Books $17.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-05120-9
If Gone With The Wind had been written from the point of view of soldiers in the midst of battle, it might have read something like this appealing novel that deals with the stupidity of the Civil War and its effect on women. The main character is...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author . Ballantine $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-42820-2
Popular and prolific Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle, etc.) lavishes her attention—and breathless prose—on another lesbian coming-of-age tale set in Southern belle territory. Victoria "Vic" Savedge is a gorgeous 22-year-old senior at...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author Bantam $19 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-34630-5
Focusing on the wonders of the English language, ``Brown here gives nonwriters and writers alike a book to enjoy quite apart from its instructional value,'' stated PW . `` The tone is stern but empathetic, spiced by the author's sassy wit and full...
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Rita Mae Brown, Ballantine, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-51181-2
Wings Ranch near Reno, owned by Jeep Reed, who served as a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) during WWII, provides the appealing backdrop for the intriguing first in a new, canine-centered series from bestseller Brown (Cat of the Century). One of...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-345-46547-4
In bestseller Brown's diverting fifth foxhunting mystery (after 2005's The Hunt Ball
), "Sister" Jane Arnold, the 73-year-old master of foxhounds at central Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, and a host of anthropomorphized dogs,...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author . Bantam $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-10744-9
Springtime, romance and murder all visit the peaceful little town of Crozet, Va.—home of Mary Minor Hairsteen ("Harry"), her trio of feline and canine sleuths, a cast of familiar supporting characters and, of course, a few new ones....
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Rita Mae Brown, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-42822-6
Tally-ho! From bestseller Brown (Outfoxed
and many other delicious books) comes a dashing and vibrant novel that revolves around foxhunting. The rolling hills of central Virginia are home to the Jefferson Hunt—and to scores of sly foxes, red,
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Rita Mae Brown, Author . Bantam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-80161-3
Bestseller Brown (The Tale of the Tip-off
, etc.) and her feline collaborator offer another winsome tale of endearing talking animals and fallible, occasionally homicidal humans, many of whom breed and raise horses in the small Piedmont town of...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-345-46549-8
The most appealing characters in Brown's underplotted new mystery are the animals, even without Sneaky Pie's coauthorship. Septuagenarian "Sister" Jane Arnold, the Master of the central Virginia Jefferson Hunt Club, returns from...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-345-49024-7
Enlivened by a large cast of familiar two- and four-legged characters, “Sister” Jane Arnold's sixth adventure in Virginia hunt country (after 2006's The Hounds and the Fury
) opens with the discovery of a nude female corpse...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author . Grove $18.95 (103p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1870-7
Feisty Southern sisters Juts and Wheezy, of bestselling author Brown's Six of One trilogy, are back and as irascible as ever. The story unfolds in a single summer day in 1952, when the two make a day-trip to the beach accompanied by Jut's...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, Author . Bantam $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-80364-8
The charming 14th Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2006's Sour Puss
) finds ex-postmistress and sometime-detective Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen accompanying her veterinarian husband, Fair, to an equestrian extravaganza in Kentucky. The mishaps
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, Author . Bantam $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-80164-4
The 12th novel in this bestselling cozy series from Brown and her feline collaborator (after 2004's Whisker of Evil)
offers the usual irresistible mix of talking animals and a baffling murder or two. After she decides to quit her job as the...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, Author, Michael Gellatly, Illustrator Bantam $25 (237p) ISBN 978-0-553-80706-6
Murder casts a shadow over the yuletide cheer in bestseller Brown’s 17th Mrs. Murphy mystery (after The Purrfect Murder
) to feature Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, former postmistress of Crozet, Va. On a visit to the Brothers of...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, Author, Michael Gellatly, Illustrator Bantam $25 (247p) ISBN 978-0-553-80365-5
At the start of bestseller Brown’s uneven 15th Mrs. Murphy Mystery (after 2007’s Puss ’n Cahoots
), Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, the former postmistress of Crozet, Va., is saddened to hear that a local ob-gyn has been...
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Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown, Bantam, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-553-80708-0
Readers concerned about breast cancer will welcome Brown's 19th Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2010's Cat of the Century). While Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen copes bravely with a diagnosis of stage one breast cancer, a sad discovery distracts her from...
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Rita Mae Brown, read by Johanna Parker. Recorded Books, unabridged, library edition, six CDs, 7.5 hrs., $72.75 ISBN 978-1-4498-3151-6
This delightful second book in Brown’s Mags and Baxter Series set in Reno, Nev., finds transplanted stock trader Mags Rogers; her elderly great-aunt, Jeep Reed; and real estate broker Babs Gallagher trying to find a solution to the local foreclosure
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Marguerite Gavin, Read by , read by Marguerite Gavin. Tantor Audio $19.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0821-3
Aside from the overpackaging (the inch-thick plastic clamshell case holds just two CDs), everything about this lean presentation fits nicely together. Marguerite Gavin's crisp, clean delivery moves the story along at a clipped pace; her voice...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Wendy Wray, Illustrator, Sneaky Pie Brown, With Bantam $7.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-57236-0
Continued collaboration between Brown and her cat, as series hero Mrs. Murphy (also a feline) must solve the murder of a biker and the theft of $30 million from local banks. (Oct.)
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Wendy Wray, Illustrator, Sneaky Pie Brown, With Bantam Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07728-5
Mystery fans who dote on their pets will welcome this second tale of murder co-authored by Brown and her cat, Sneaky Pie. A follow-up to the duo's Wish You Were Here, it reintroduces characters and settings in the tiny town of Crozet, Va. Central to
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Wendy Wray, Illustrator, Sneaky Pie Brown, With Bantam Books $19.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-553-08140-4
Ailurophiles will purr as the inimitable Sneaky Pie Brown and her human coauthor, Rita Mae, return in their third adventure (after Rest in Pieces). Drawing deftly on archeological investigations at Thomas Jefferson's beloved Monticello, the Browns...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Wendy Wray, Illustrator, Sneaky Pie Brown, With Bantam Books $21.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-553-09603-3
The first word of this fourth collaboration of Rita Mae Brown and her cat (following Murder at Monticello) is, appropriately, the italicized ``Cozy.'' The dog days of summer in sleepy Crozet, Va.-where postmistress Mary Minor Haristeen, aka Harry,...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Wendy Wray, Illustrator, Sneaky Pie Brown, With Bantam $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-57235-3
The third Mrs. Murphy mystery, coauthored by novelist Brown and her cat (Mrs. Murphy is also a feline), in which the purring detective must solve a mystery involving the discovery of a body during archeological excavations at Thomas Jefferson's old...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, With Bantam Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05881-9
Crediting her cat Sneaky Pie as coauthor, Brown ( Rubyfruit Jungle ) sets the thoroughly likable heroine of this mystery, Mary Minor Haristeen, in an admirable position to figure out who is murdering, in ghastly fashion, various pillars of her...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, With Bantam Books $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-09604-0
It's a day at the races for intrepid gray tiger cat Mrs. Murphy and her friends in the latest collaboration between Brown and feline coauthor Sneaky Pie (Pay Dirt). Competition is fierce at the annual steeplechase at Montpelier, the historic...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, Joint Author . Bantam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-80158-3
You don't have to be a cat lover to enjoy Brown's 11th Mrs. Murphy novel (after 2002's Catch as Cat Can), which centers on the "Clam," the University of Virginia's giant sports complex. After a women's basketball game,...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, Joint Author, Itoko Maeno, Illustrator Bantam Books $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-10743-2
Mrs. Murphy, the incomparable feline sleuth with attitude, returns to captivate readers in her ninth outing (Pawing Through the Past; etc.). Ice and freezing temperatures have given the inhabitants of Crozet, Va., a bad case of the Februaries with...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, Joint Author, Itoko Maeno, Illustrator Bantam Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-09971-3
The latest collaboration (after last year's Murder on the Prowl) between Brown and her feline muse is a charming and keen-eyed take on human misdeeds and animal shenanigans. Mrs. Murphy, the cat sleuth, out for an evening prowl, spots a small plane...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Sneaky Pie Brown, Joint Author, Itoko Maeno, Illustrator Bantam Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-10738-8
Mary Minor ""Harry"" Haristeen and her intrepid trio of animal sleuths are back for an eighth--and winsome--adventure (following Cat on the Scent). Harry, postmistress of seemingly bucolic Crozet, Va., and her classmates are excited about their...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Michael Gellatly, Illustrator . Bantam $26 (219p) ISBN 978-0-553-80707-3
Shady money dealings fuel Brown's solid 18th mystery featuring Mary Minor Haristeen and her cat pal, Sneaky Pie (after 2008's Santa Clawed
). Aunt Talley Urquhart is looking forward to celebrating her 100th birthday at her Fulton, Mo.,...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Wendy Holden, Author, Michael Gellatly, Illustrator . Bantam $25 (246p) ISBN 978-0-553-80362-4
The 13th Mrs. Murphy mystery from bestseller Brown and her feline collaborator (after 2005's Cat's Eyewitness
) opens with the comic-opera remarriage of series heroine Harry Haristeen and Fair, Harry's veterinarian ex-husband,...
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Rita Mae Brown, Author, Lee Gildea, Jr., Illustrator . Ballantine $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-49026-1
At the start of bestseller Brown's discursive seventh crime novel starring master of fox hounds “Sister” Jane Arnold (after The Tell-Tale Horse
), Sister is busy showing her hounds in the hunting off-season. Then calamity strikes....
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Rita Mae Brown. Ballantine, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-39262-3
Bestseller Brown’s disappointing ninth “Sister” Jane Arnold mystery (after 2012’s Fox Tracks) takes the Master of Foxhounds of Virginia’s Jefferson Hunt to Kentucky for a joint meet with the Woodford Hounds. When repair workers discover a human...
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Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. Bantam, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-39246-3
At the start of bestseller Brown’s disjointed 24th Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2015’s Tail Gait), farm owner Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen is nearly run off the road by nurse Barbara Leader, the caregiver for ailing 96-year-old Samuel Holloway, a...
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Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. Bantam, $27 (360p) ISBN 978-0-553-39249-4
Bestseller Brown’s leisurely paced 25th Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2016’s Tall Tale) finds farm owner Mary “Harry” Haristeen’s pets—Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, both cats, and Tee Tucker, a corgi—enjoying a walk one autumn day near sundown in Virginia’s...
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Rita Mae Brown. Ballantine, $27 (278p) ISBN 978-0-399-17834-4
Bestseller Brown’s meandering 10th Sister Jane mystery (after 2014’s Let Sleeping Dogs Lie) is more about the rarified world of Virginia fox hunting than murder. After the discovery of a cell phone video depicting Hunting Hall of Famer Wesley “Weevil
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Rita Mae Brown. Bantam, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-28715-6
In bestseller Brown’s rambling sixth Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2017’s A Hiss Before Dying), Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her menagerie of opinionated animal friends are drawn into a murder investigation after she witnesses architect Gary...
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Rita Mae Brown. Ballantine, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17837-5
A serial killer may be loose in Virginia hunt country in bestseller Brown’s intriguing 11th mystery featuring Jane “Sister” Arnold, Master of Hounds of the Jefferson Hunt Club (after 2017’s Crazy Like a Fox). Joining the club’s traditional Christmas
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Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. Bantam, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-28718-7
Early in bestseller Brown’s smoothly written 27th mystery featuring Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her talking animals (after 2018’s Probably Claws), Harry and her fellow volunteers are clearing away debris at the National Beagle Club in Virginia’s
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Rita Mae Brown. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-13000-1
In bestseller Brown’s genial, smoothly written 12th novel set in Virginia horse country (after 2018’s Homeward Hound), antiques shop owner Harry Dunbar, who apparently took a fatal fall down some steep steps, is mourned by his fellow members of the...
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Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. Bantam, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-13003-2
Two stories centuries apart entwine in bestseller Brown’s meandering 29th mystery featuring Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her pets (after 2019’s Whiskers in the Dark). In 2019, Harry, who’s in charge of building and grounds at St. Luke’s Lutheran
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Rita Mae Brown. Ballantine, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-13006-3
Jane “Sister” Arnold, the Master of Foxhounds of the Jefferson Hunt, and her friends are now in their 60s and early 70s, but they remain as spry as ever, as shown in bestseller Brown’s stately 13th mystery set in Virginia hunt country (after 2019’s...
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Rita Mae Brown. Ballantine, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-35757-6
Brown’s wearying 15th cozy featuring Jefferson Hunt Club foxhound master “Sister” Jane Arnold (after 2022’s Thrill of the Hunt) once again mixes amateur sleuthing and animal antics. Just after the start of hunting season in northern Virginia, hunt...
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