Tail Gait: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Theres nothing like a tail well told. Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor Harry Haristeen, crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and ever-faithful Tee Tucker the corgi.

TAIL GAIT

Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginiaa time for old friends to gather and bid farewell to the doldrums of winter. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying a cozy dinner with some of the towns leading citizens, including beloved University of Virginia history professor Greg Ginger McConnell and several members of UVAs celebrated 1959 football team. But beneath the cloak of conviviality lurks a sinister specter from the distant past that threatens to put all their lives in jeopardy.

When Professor McConnell is found murdered on the golf course the next daygunned down in broad daylight by an unseen killerno one can fathom a motive, let alone find a suspect. Just as Harry and her furry cohorts begin nosing into the case, however, a homeless UVA alum confesses to the crime. Trouble is, no one believes that the besotted former All-American could have done the foul deedespecially after Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker make another gruesome discovery.

As the questions surrounding Gingers death pile up, Harrys search for answers takes her down the fascinating byways of Virginias Revolutionary past. The professor was something of a sleuth himself, it seems, and the centuries-old mystery he was unraveling may well have put a target on his back. As Harry edges closer to identifying an elusive killer, her animal companions sense dangerand rally to find a way to keep Harry from disappearing into history.

Praise for the Mrs. Murphy mysteries

As feline collaborators go, you couldnt ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown.The New York Times Book Review

Mrs. Murphy mysteries are fun, sweet, and beautifully adventurous.Bustle

Brown [is] the queen of the talking animal cozy.Publishers Weekly