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All the world's a stage--and now Jim Qwilleran's apple orchard has become the stage--for a real-life murder scene. The much-disliked director of the Pickax Theatre Club's Shakespeare production, Hilary van Brook, is found dead after the closing-night cast party ... and with the help of his super-smart Siamese, Qwill must cast a suspicious eye on all the players--especially the ones pussyfooting around behind the scenes.
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"Returning to Virginia's post-revolutionary history and to characters introduced in Tail Gait, the story follows the Garth sisters and their husbands, neighbors to a brutal slaveholder whose murder at the hands of one of his slaves is neither unexpected nor unwarranted, especially when the impetus was an attack on that slave's wife. The sisters manage to smuggle the fugitive to safety in York, Pennsylvania, while ensuring that the circumstances underlying...
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Dixie Hemingway mysteries volume 1
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Dixie Hemingway knows first-hand that many things in life are worse than a dirty litter box. Once happy as a Florida sheriff's deputy, she lost everything when senseless tragedy shattered her world. Now Dixie laces up her sneakers, grabs some kitty treats, and copes with one day at a time as a pet-sitter. Her investigations deal strictly with "crimes" such as who peed on the bed . . . until she finds a dead man face down in an Abyssinian's water bowl....
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[1998]
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Spring comes to Moose County and Jim Qwilleran wonders if the yowlings of Koko and Yum Yum are more than just accompaniment to the birds singing outside his windows. Could the cats know who is at the bottom of recent mischief and mayhem?
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Nela Farley mysteries volume 1
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Berkley Prime Crime
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[2012]
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A woman able to understand the thoughts of cats becomes an unwitting investigator when her sister's co-worker is murdered and the only witness was her beloved feline.
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A thrilling new tale from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Death stalks the Blue Ridge Mountains once again and Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen, along with her beloved cats, is on the case. Pharamond "Fair" Haristeen is known throughout Crozet, Virginia, as a good horse vet and a better man. When Benjamin Wagner, a new vet in town, is found dead in his unopened clinic, local police turn to Fair...
10) Furmidable foes
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"Someone's passed their expiration date in this thrilling new mystery in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her pet sleuths uncover a rotten scam to dupe consumers when they discover that substandard produce is being passed off for organic, upmarket groceries. As always, Harry's crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and Tee Tucker the Corgi share her...
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Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginia. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying a cozy dinner with some of the town's leading citizens, including history professor Greg "Ginger: McConnell and several members of UVA's celebrated 1959 football team. When McConnell is found murdered on the golf course the next day, a homeless UVA alum confesses to the crime. Trouble is, no one believes that the besotted former All-American could have done the foul...
12) Probable claws
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"Rita Mae Brown and her feline coauthor Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. As feline collaborators go, you couldn't ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown." The New York Times Book Review. With the New Year just around the corner, winter has transformed the cozy Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia, into a living snow globe. It's the...
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Trixie and Evangeline mysteries volume 7
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Minotaur Books
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[2012]
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Overseeing her daughter's frantic attempts to identify recipes in time for a cookbook deadline, aging actress Trixie and her companion, Evangeline, investigate claims that the original cookbook author died after eating one of the recipes.
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2021.
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"Clover Ridge librarian Carrie Singleton investigates after her best friend's cousin's flirtatious husband is found dead in a chocolate fountain at an elaborate bridal shower"--
Clover Ridge librarian Carrie Singleton is thrilled to attend her best friend Angela's wedding. Angela's wealthy cousin Donna hosts an extravagant bridal shower at her home, but guests notice Donna's surgeon husband, Aiden, spending a bit too much time with Donna's cousin...
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Joe Grey mysteries volume 19
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2016]
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While expecting their new litter of kittens, Joe Grey and Dulcie become involved in investigating a human murderer who has been targeting the local elderly.
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"Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia--and all the traditions of the changing seasons are under way. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen cleans her cupboards, her husband, Fair,...
19) Cross my path
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Severn House Publishers Ltd
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2018.
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"When an elderly woman seeks Care's help in finding out what happened to her brother, Care's feline companion Blackie senses he's met this woman before, some time before he became a cat. But who is she - and what is their connection? Then a body is discovered at the waterfront, and the case takes a disturbing new twist."--Publisher's description.
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