The Purrfect Murder

This entry in the wildly popular Mrs. Murphy series is a riveting tale from Emmy winner Rita Mae Brown and her cat Sneaky Pie. This time around, the sleepy hamlet of Crozet, Virginia, is thrown into turmoil when autumn brings a bountiful harvest—and murder most foul.

Harry Haristeen is busily preparing her gardens for winter when a local ob-gyn is killed by a sniper. Then haughty upper-cruster Carla Paulson—in the middle of building her extravagant new home—ruffles a few feathers and winds up dead as a doornail. It doesn’t look good for architect Tazio Chappars, who is found standing over Carla’s body holding a knife. But Harry and her four-legged friends know better.

The Browns fill this cozy with twists aplenty as Harry, her two cats, and her dauntless corgi rake through the autumn leaves to sniff out a killer.