SNEAKY PIE BROWN

Mrs Murphys fourth caper will be lapped up like half-and-half by the faithful.Kirkus Reviews The best yet.Publishers Weekly The residents of tiny Crozet, Virginia, thrive on gossip, especially in the post office, where Mary Minor Harry Haristeen presides with her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy. So when a belligerent Hells Angel crashes Crozet demanding to see his girlfriend, the leather-clad interloper quickly becomes the chief topic of conversation. Then the biker is found murdered, and everyone is baffled. Well, almost everyone . . . Mrs. Murphy and her friends, Welsh corgi Tee Tucker and overweight feline Pewter, havent been slinking through alleys for nothing. But can they dig up the truth in time to save their humans from a ruthless killer? If you must work with a collaborator, you want it to be someone with intelligence, wit, and an infinite capacity for subtletysomeone, in fact, very much like a cat. . . . Its always a pleasure to visit this cozy world.The New York Times Book Review

Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the cats meow.... Maybe she should think again. Small towns dont 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 Harrys tiger cat, Ms. Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, believe he smells A-okay. Could his one little imperfection be that hes 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 Crozets very best people. Thats 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 killers next victims.