Best Selling Books by Rita Mae Brown

After the discovery of a body on a Christmas tree farm owned by the Brothers of Love, a semi-monastic organization, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen seeks a murderer as prominent men of Crozet, Virginia, continue to turn up dead.

Continuing in the exuberant tradition of Six of One, Bingo, and Loose Lips, New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown returns to her much-loved fictional hamlet of Runnymede, whose memorable citizens are welcoming both the end of the Great War and the beginning of a new era. The night a riot breaks out at the Capitol Theater movie house during a Mary Pickford picture, no less you can bet that the Hunsenmeir sisters, Louise and Julia, are nearby. Known locally as Wheezie and Juts, the inimitable, irrepressible, distinctly freethinking sisters and their delightful circle of friends are coming of age in a shifting world and are determined to understand their place in it. Across town, the well-to-do Chalfonte siblings are preparing for the upcoming wedding of brother Curtis. But for youngest sister Celeste, the celebration brings about a change she never expected and a lesson about love she ll not soon forget. Set against the backdrop of America emerging from World War I, Cakewalk is an outrageous and affecting novel about a small town where ideas of sin and virtue, love and sex, men and women, politics and religion, can be as divided as the Mason-Dixon Line that runs right through it and where there s no problem that can t be cured by a good yarn and an even better scotch. With her signature Southern voice, Rita Mae Brown deftly weaves generations of family stories into a spirited patchwork quilt of not-so-simple but joyously rich life. Praise for Rita Mae Brown s Runnymede novels Six of One Joyous, passionate and funny. The Washington Post Book World No matter how quirky or devilish, Brown s people cavort in an atmosphere of tenderness. . . . It is refreshing to encounter this celebration of human energy. Chicago Sun-Times Bingo Genuinely funny. Los Angeles Times Vividly drawn characters . . . and tart, loving humor. Self Loose Lips Surprises . . . come from Rita Mae Brown s comic timing and her affection for eccentrics. The Seattle Times [Brown] does an admirable job of portraying the effects World War II has on one small American town. The Arizona Republic From the Hardcover edition."

"... In Her Day. This time in the big town and the brat''s grown up and become a woman-- or rather three or four of them, women in our day and age with our hangups and hassels and preoccupations-- bu managing. Managing beautifully." -- Kate Millet from the back cover.

Kimball Haynes, Archäologe und Workaholic, ist für die Ausgrabungen im nahe gelegenen Monticello, dem ehemaligen Wohnsitz des Präsidenten Jefferson, verantwortlich. Er macht einen grausigen Fund.

After a shocking archaeological find at Thomas Jefferson''s Monticello home sparks controversy, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen goes hunting for the truth. Her friends Mrs. Murphy the tiger cat and Tee Tucker the corgi go hunting too--for a killer out to keep Harry quiet.