Tall Tail
2016 • 353 pages

"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 the entire ordeal stay long buried. Until now. Harry and her animal companions come closer to drawing a link between the past and the present. And in this centuries-spanning caper, they will discover that hiding who you really are may have mortal consequences ... As the questions surrounding"--

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24 primary books

#25 in Mrs. Murphy

Mrs. Murphy is a 24-book series with 24 released primary works first released in 1990 with contributions by Rita Mae Brown, S, and Sneaky Pie Brown.

#1
Wish You Were Here
#2
Vraždy na pokračování
#3
Murder at Monticello
#4
Pay Dirt
#5
Murder, She Meowed
#6
Murder on the Prowl
#7
Cat on the scent
#8
Pawing Through the Past
#9
Claws and Effect
#10
Catch As Cat Can
#11
Tail of the tip-off
#12
Whisker of evil

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I used to really like Brown's books, with the mix of present and past, but this one seemed to drag and I was just happy when it was finished. I enjoyed the historical aspects more than the present day timeline although they really both came together at the end.

March 3, 2016

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