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Summary: Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter are on the case when two people are found murdered during her 20th high school reunion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1998
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Summary: Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. The case begins with a fire in which many horses die and the embers yield a human body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1998
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Summary: Hoping to clear out years of junk that has accumulated in a recently purchased, dilapidated mansion, Meg and Michael host a big lawn sale that becomes the scene of a murder when a body is discovered in the barn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: When pieces of a dismembered corpse begin turning up around town, Harry investigates, turning her attentions to the town's newcomer, drop-dead gorgeous Blair Bainbridge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992
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Summary: In her debut adventure, Sterling Glass, an intrepid antiques appraiser and amateur sleuth, must foil a plot set up by a shady construction company looking to bilk the elderly out of their prized possessions. Following a trail of clues from her small Virginia town to New York City, Sterling and her #1 guy Peter try to bring these crooks to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2005
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Summary: The peaceful town of Crozet, Virginia, is turned upside down by a statue of the Virgin Mary that begins to cry tears of real blood, as Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her sleuthing pets search for the truth about a local unsolved mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Summary: When members of the Jefferson Hunt Club uncover a human body while burying a horse, "Sister" Jane Arnold investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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Summary: A murder mystery among the fox hunting set in Virginia. The victim is one of two candidates for the post of master of the foxhounds. The post is being vacated by the present master, 70-year-old Jane Arnold, and it is she who nabs the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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Summary: Visiting the local vineyards of Crozet, Virginia, world-renowned grape and fungus expert Professor Vincent Forland loses his head--literally. Forland had recently delivered a lecture on how distilled fungus plays a critical role in chemical warfare. Figuring the murder is political, the Crozet residents are hardly bothered and return to their routines--until another headless body shows up. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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Summary: An old skeleton uncovered beneath the slave quarters of Monticello and a new murder in Crozet, Virginia, bring together tiger-striped Mrs. Murphy and Welsh Corgi Tee Tucker to solve the killing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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Summary: Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her old haunts in Richmond, Virginia, only to encounter a host of baffling and unwelcome surprises as she investigates the death of a fourteen-year-old girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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Summary: Paul Iverson's Life Changes in an instant. He returns home one day to find that his wife, Lexy, has died under strange circumstances. The only witness was their dog, Lorelei, whose anguished barking brought help to the scene-but too late. In the days and weeks that follow, Paul begins to notice strange "clues" in their home: books rearranged on their shelves, a mysterious phone call, and other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Summary: Barry Monteith is barely alive when Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen finds him lying on the ground. His throat is ripped open, the jugular severed, and he is gurgling his last breaths. The obvious explanation is a wild animal attack. But there are no tracks of every kind surrounding the body. Even more preplexing, tiger cat Mrs. Murphy and her animal pals can't detect the scent of any possible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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Summary: The unsuspicious death of fast-living Roger O'Bannon at the Wrecker's Ball turns into a murder mystery when a second body is discovered, a situation that prompts "Harry" Haristeen and her feline sleuth, Mrs. Murphy, to find a connection between the two victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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Summary: Struggling to safeguard her vineyard from an unusual late-season freeze, Lucie Montgomery discovers the body of a controversial local politician near her fields, a case during which a friend is wrongfully accused and Lucie confronts her feelings for a fractious winemaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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Summary: Returning to her Virginia vineyard home after the unexpected death of her father, Lucie Montgomery is dismayed by her father's gambling debts, and discovers that someone had a lot to gain from her father's death and the sale of his winery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006