Rest in Pieces: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery - Rita Mae Brown

Following up Wish You Were Here, their debut mystery, the New York Times bestselling author and her feline coauthor return with a tantalizing tale. Rest in Pieces is set in small-town Virginia and features a singular detective team: postmistress Mary Minor Harry Haristeen and her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy.

Illustrated. nMrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is thecat's meow....

Maybe she should think again. Small towns don't take kindly to strangers--unlessthe stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous andseemingly unattached male. When Blair Bainbridgecomes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakerslose no time in declaring him perfect for theirnewly divorced postmistress, Marry Minor HarryHaristeen.

Even Harry's tiger cat, Ms.Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, believe hesmells A-okay. Could his one little imperfectionbe that he's a killer? Blair becomes the mostlikely suspect when the pieces of a dismembered corpsebegin tuming up around Crozet.

No one knows whothe dead man is, but when a grisly clue makes aspectacular appearance in the middle of the fallfestivities, more than an early winter snow beginschilling the blood of Crozet's very best people. That's when Ms. Murphy, her friend Tucker, and herhuman companion Harry begin to sort throughout theclues .

. . only to find themselves a whisker awayfrom becoming the killer's nextvictims.