The Hounds and the Fury

Name: The Hounds and the Fury
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Rita Mae Brown
ISBN: 9781436142113

Author: Rita Mae Brown

Series: Sister Jane #5

Narrator: Rita Mae Brown

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/10/2009

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

From best-selling author Rita Mae Brown, another clever, endearing story in the Foxhunting mystery series. Lushly described scenes from the hunt, talking animals who help solve the murder, and the beloved Sister Jane reunite to continue the New York Times best-selling mystery series. Book five, which focuses on the hound, draws us into the murky financial scandals of foxhunting society-including a sharp-tongued, wheelchair-bound hellion of a bookkeeper, and a rich former hunt club donor who thinks he can out-class the intrepid Sister Jane with the purchase of his own pack of hounds. Only Sister Jane, along with her furry friends who, per usual, discuss the intrigues amongst themselves, is able to uncover the mystery of the missing money and the dead body! Keep in mind, in American foxhunting, the foxes always get away-so this is a series for animal lovers as well as the sporting crowd!

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 Jennifer

Not so much a mystery - though there's a murder mystery tucked in - as a look at the lives and mores of a Virginia hunt club. If I didn't know foxhunts actually exist, I'd think the author (who is the master of foxhounds at the Oak Ridge Foxhunt Club) had created her own sub-world. The world-buildin......more

Goodreads review by CarolBeth

I love riding, but am nowhere NEAR advanced enough to ride in a foxhunt. By the way, they do not kill the fox, they chase it. The animals in these mysteries discuss things with one another, and have their own hates and loves. The humans can't understand the animals, though hunt master Jane Arnold ("......more

Goodreads review by Jeannine

An excellent primer on the tradition of fox hunting in Virginia; the people, their responsibilities in the field, the love and care of their horses and hounds, their love for the land and even their love and care of the foxes they hunt (actually they don't hunt, they chase). Mixed in with all this i......more