Hunt Ball

About this book

Author of the New York Times best-selling Mrs. Murphy mysteries Rita Mae Brown delivers the goods with The Hunt Ball the most entertaining entry yet in her popular foxhunting series. When a faculty member of the local prep school is murdered the headmistress and "Sister" Jane Arnold master of the foxhounds at Virginias Jefferson Hunt Club work together to uncover a killer. It seems the slaying may have been politically motivated as students were demonstrating to call attention to the role of slavery in the schools past. With the annual hunt ball approaching the 70-something Sister already has plenty on her plate. Does she have time to catch a murderer?