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  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780553562392
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $19.99

Rest in Pieces

A Mrs. Murphy Mystery



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.

  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780553562392
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the Mrs. Murphy mystery series (which she writes with her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie) and the Sister Jane novels, as well as Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, The Six of One Trilogy, and The Sand Castle, among others, and of the memoirs Animal Magnetism and Rita Will. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia, with cats, hounds, horses, and big red foxes.

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Praise for Rest in Pieces

Praise for REST IN PIECES:

"A spooky, baffling tale complete with Brown's trademark surprise ending."--Publishers Weekly

"Ms. Brown's earthy prose breathes warmth into wintry Crozet...an enchanting world."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Skillfully plotted, properly gruesome...and wise as well as wickedly funny."--Booklist

"[A] funny, wise novel with dollops of faith, hope, and charity, and seasoned by Brown's wicked humor."--Boston Herald