Tall Tail, Rita Mae Brown
Tall Tail, Rita Mae Brown
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Tall Tail

Author: Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/17/2016


Synopsis

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 Virginia-uncovering a shocking secret that refuses to stay buried. At any moment a perfect summer day in Crozet, Virginia-nestled within the Blue Ridge Mountains-might turn stormy and tempestuous, as Harry knows too well when a squall suddenly sweeps in. In a blink, Harry's pickup nearly collides with a careening red car that then swerves into a ditch. Harry recognizes the dead driver slumped over the vehicle's steering wheel: Barbara Leader was nurse and confidante to former Virginia governor Sam Holloway. Though Barbara's 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 cemetery's statue of the Avenging Angel. Just below that imposing funereal monument lie the remains of one Francisco Selisse, brutally murdered in 1784. Harry's present-day sleuthing draws her back to Virginia's slave-holding past and the hunt for Selisse's killer. Now it's up to Harry and her furry detectives-Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tee Tucker-to expose the bitter truth, even if it means staring into the unforgiving eyes of history and cornering a callous killer poised to pounce.

About Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Rubyfruit Jungle, The Hounds and the Fury, Six of One, Hounded to Death, In Her Day, Six of One, and Alma Mater. She also writes the popular Sister Jane mysteries and the Sneaky Pie Brown mystery series. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, she lives in Afton, Virginia, where she is master of foxhounds of Oak Ridge Hunt Club.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Betty on May 17, 2016

Two stories are featured in this visit to Cross, Virginia. There is not much mystery as Harry and friends seek to solve a Barbara Leader's death, a nurse for former governor Sam Holloway. Next, we find ourselves in the 18 century where a plantation owner is murdered by one of his slaves, Moses who i......more

Goodreads review by Mayda on July 10, 2016

It seems that Ms. Brown has taken this series in a different direction with her last few novels. They seem to feature the animals less than the earlier novels did. Instead, the novels make a social or political statement, this one with historical significance. The murder and its solution seem second......more

Goodreads review by Randee on February 10, 2019

This is actually the 24th book in the Mrs. Murphy Series (Sneaky Pie for President isn’t a Mrs. Murphy mystery.) I have two more to read before I pull current with the series and I see that a new one is scheduled to be published this May 2019. For the second time, the author flips back and forth fro......more

Goodreads review by Maria on October 17, 2017

Il passato non muore, semplicemente si trasforma, e trova il modo di far arrivare le sue lunghe dita fino all'oggi, di solito lasciandosi dietro una traccia di sangue. Così l'omicidio di una infermiera superspecializzata che segue a domicilio un vecchio governatore, un tentativo di furto presso una......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 20, 2017

I am not sure who writes these reviews, but I found the book very slow in the beginning (NOT "fast-paced"). It did get very interesting, but there was no (or very little) thought (discussion) given to the rightness or wrongness of actions made by the protagonists (the "good guys"), which were as bad......more