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In the wealth-studded hills of Jefferson County, Virginia, the all-important New Year's Hunt begins, but the festivities are marred by what appears to be an unrelated tragedy: Sam Lorillard, former shining star and Harvard Law alum, lies dead of a stab wound at the old train station.

Retaining her love of foxhunting into her seventies, Jane "Sister" Arnold finds herself having to call on all of her expertise to solve the mystery of a murdered woman who disappeared twenty years earlier.

Sister Jane, the local Master of the Hunt, and her animal companions take on a feistry, wheelchair-bound bookkeeper, Sister Jane's boyfirend, and a wealthy former hunt club donor as they set out to uncover the mystery of some missing money and a missing body.

"In this new foxhunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, an investigation into a missing and very valuable object flushes out murder, ghosts, and old family rivalries. Now "Sister" Jane Arnold and a pack of four-legged friends must catch the scent of a killer and unearth a long-buried truth"-- When a valuable hunting horn is stolen from the Museum of Hounds and Hunting, "Sister" Jane Arnold follows clues that may explain...

Sharpshooter Margaret Welty and alchemical apprentice Weston Winters form an unlikely team competing for glory in a magical fox hunt--while she wants to lure her mother home, Wes needs the prize money to support his family and his political aspirations.

"On the Ides of March, an ill wind blows no good -- especially when it knocks down a tree limb in the oldest equine graveyard in America, revealing remains that are decidedly un-equine. It falls to Master of the Foxhunt, the indomitable "Sister" Jane Arnold and her trusty hounds to investigate an old murder with present day repercussions. To start off, the complicated relations between three old families and their prize thoroughbreds must be untangled....

When local gossips brand him a killer despite his wife's death by natural causes, wealthy British colonel James Lockyer-Fox draws the concern of his attorney, who discovers that his reclusive client is also being accused of far worse.

In the course of a fox hunt, Cig Blackwood, a young widow in Virginia, is informed that her husband had an affair with her sister. So shocked is she by the news, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. She emerges back in 1699 Virginia, where she meets her colonial ancestors and falls in love. By the author of Venus Envy.

"Early fall in Virginia means shorter days, cooler temperatures, the blooming milkweeds of summer giving way to fields of fluffy seeds -- and of course, the start of fox hunting season. It's "Sister" Jane Arnold's favorite time of year. And this year, the Jefferson Hunt Club is busier than ever, organizing a fundraising drive to help with the upkeep of their beloved hunting grounds. But the festive season is interrupted by the appearance of a dead...

"It's the start of fox-hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, a man dies, apparently by suicide, shocking a community that never saw the death coming. Then Crawford Howard receives an ominous video in which he appears to be doing scandalous, career-ending deeds. The video is doctored, but does it matter? The unknown blackmailer promises to...