The Hunt Ball

Name: The Hunt Ball
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Rita Mae Brown
ISBN: 9781449802134

Author: Rita Mae Brown

Series: Sister Jane #4

Narrator: Rita Mae Brown

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/24/2008

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Suspense & Thriller, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Author of the New York Times best-selling Mrs. Murphy mysteries, Rita Mae Brown delivers the goods with The Hunt Ball, the most entertaining entry yet in her popular foxhunting series. When a faculty member of the local prep school is murdered, the headmistress and "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds at Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, work together to uncover a killer. It seems the slaying may have been politically motivated, as students were demonstrating to call attention to the role of slavery in the school's past. With the annual hunt ball approaching, the 70-something Sister already has plenty on her plate. Does she have time to catch a murderer?

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 Jim

This is the first one I've listened to as an audio book. The author as a narrator was serviceable, but that's all. Her husky voice fit well, but her lack of inflection & occasional odd cadence didn't do the story any favors. I am picky about narrators, though. The murder mystery was OK, but the best......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

I'm still reading about fox hunting which, of course, is a sport in which I will never participate. All that bouncing around on a horse would do me in! This volume in the series was good although the resolution of the mystery seemed to occur very suddenly and the explanation of the crime was not com......more

Goodreads review by Amelia

I picked this up very randomly as I was looking for a mystery. It is a whodunnit, but not of the compelling, many-clued, mind-twisting sort. So it didn't really satisfy the neurons. It is more of a small school country fox hunting novel. I knew less than zero about fox hunting and spent half an hour......more