Аннотация

To celebrate the twentieth
anniversary of the beloved Mrs.
Murphy mystery series, Rita Mae
Brown and her intrepid feline
co-author Sneaky Pie Brown
return with a charming claw- biting tale starring Mary Minor
“Harry” Haristeen. Of course
prowling faithfully at Harry’s
side are the sleuthing cats Mrs.
Murphy, ever wise, and Pewter,
reliably cranky and always primed with a razor-sharp quip.
Fiercely loyal and on the alert,
corgi Tee Tucker is also never far
behind. This time, Harry and her
menagerie throw a wrench into
the gears of a killer of grease monkeys.
It’s mid-May, and Crozet,
Virginia, is heating up fast, or so
it seems to Harry. The town’s
beloved ex–post mistress is
never idle, dividing her time between raising this year’s
bounty of crops; taking care of
her veterinarian husband, Fair;
indulging her passion for classic
cars; and adding further to her
reputation as a nosy neighbor. It starts when Harry’s dear
friend Miranda Hogendobber
takes her on a leisurely drive
that ends in a narrow drainage
ditch. The chaos continues when
the Very Reverend Herbert Jones’s Chevy pick-up also
abruptly goes kaput. But these
vehicular mishaps are nothing
compared to the much more
distressing state of a mechanic
discovered by Harry in a local repair shop: His head’s been
bashed in.
Despite numerous warnings
from her much-loved coterie of
friends, human and otherwise,
Harry rather quickly surmises that the time has come to pop
the hood and conduct her own
investigation. Her animal
companions see disaster fast
approaching but can do little
except try their best to protect their foolishly intrepid human.
Harry’s race to the truth leads
straight to powerful forces
determined to avoid scrutiny at
any cost—even if it means
running Harry Haristeen off the road for good.