Rest in Pieces

Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the??cat's meow.... Maybe she should think again.??Small towns don't take kindly to strangers--unless??the stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous and??seemingly unattached male. When Blair Bainbridge??comes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakers??lose no time in declaring him perfect for their??newly divorced postmistress, Marry Minor "Harry??Haristeen." Even Harry's tiger cat, Ms.??Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, believe he??smells A-okay. Could his one little imperfection??be that he's a killer? Blair becomes the most??likely suspect when the pieces of a dismembered corpse??begin tuming up around Crozet. No one knows who??the dead man is, but when a grisly clue makes a??spectacular appearance in the middle of the fall??festivities, more than an early winter snow begins??chilling the blood of Crozet's very best people.??That's when Ms. Murphy, her friend Tucker, and her??human companion Harry begin to sort throughout the??clues . . . only to find themselves a whisker away??from becoming the killer's next??victims.

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, Southern Discomfort, Sudden Death, High Hearts, Bingo, Starting From Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual, Venus Envy, Dolley: A Novel of Dolley Madison in Love and War, Riding Shotgun, and Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser. An Emmy nominated screenwriter and a poet, she lives in Afton, VA.

Sneaky Pie Brown, a tiger cat born somewhere in Albemarle County, Virginia, was discovered by Rita Mae Brown at her local SPCA. In addition to Sneaky Pie's Cookbook for Mystery Lovers, Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie have collaborated on twelve Mrs. Murphy mysteries: Wish You Were Here, Rest in Pieces, Murder at Monticello, Pay Dirt, Murder, She Meowed, Murder on the Prowl, Cat on the Scent, Pawing Through the Past, Claws and Effect, Catch as Cat Can, The Tail of the Tip-Off, and Whisker of Evil.?