Rita Mae Brown - autor

Settling into ranch life with her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, former Wall Street trader Mags Rogers doesn t miss the world of investment banking - because its destructive tentacles have reached Reno, Nevada, where desperate families are squatting...

With her high-powered Wall Street job in the rearview mirror, thirty-four-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeep Reed s sprawling Nevada ranch to reassemble her life. In the passenger seat is Mags s beloved wirehaired dachshund, Baxter....

Its autumn in cozy, idyllic Crozet, Virginia - a time for golden days, crisp nights...and murder. Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrustedcome here set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways....

The charming 14th Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2006s Sour Puss) finds ex-postmistress and sometime-detective Mary Minor Harry Haristeen accompanying her veterinarian husband, Fair, to an equestrian extravaganza in Kentucky. The mishaps begin when...

A mysterious death in a Virginia farm town has the locals scratching their heads - while frisky feline Mrs. Murphy and her friends, fat-cat Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker, uncover clues as they curl their way around a cold-blooded killer. This balmy...

The most appealing characters in Browns underplotted new mystery are the animals, even without Sneaky Pies coauthorship. Septuagenarian Sister Jane Arnold, the Master of the central Virginia Jefferson Hunt Club, returns from Brown hunt titles...

In bestseller Browns diverting fifth foxhunting mystery (after 2005s The Hunt Ball), Sister Jane Arnold, the 73-year-old master of foxhounds at central Virginias Jefferson Hunt Club, and a host of anthropomorphized dogs, horses, foxes and birds...