A Nose for Justice, Rita Mae Brown
A Nose for Justice, Rita Mae Brown
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A Nose for Justice

Author: Rita Mae Brown

Narrator: Johanna Parker

Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/21/2010


Synopsis

Co-author of the best-selling Mrs. Murphy novels, Rita Mae Brown launches a new series with this first mystery featuring Baxter the wirehaired dachshund. When Baxter and his owner Mags leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered man's bones-dating back to the 1800s-are unearthed in a barn owned by Mags' great-aunt. As Mags attempts to put the pieces together, Baxter readies himself to protect her at all costs.

About Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Rubyfruit Jungle, The Hounds and the Fury, Six of One, Hounded to Death, In Her Day, Six of One, and Alma Mater. She also writes the popular Sister Jane mysteries and the Sneaky Pie Brown mystery series. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, she lives in Afton, Virginia, where she is master of foxhounds of Oak Ridge Hunt Club.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gail on September 30, 2010

This is the first in a new "dog mystery" series from Rita Mae Brown who writes a "cat mystery" series with her cat Sneaky Pie. The mystery in “A Nose for Justice” involves water rights in Nevada, and there is a bonus mystery about hundred-year-old bones found buried in the barn. Water pumps are blown......more

Goodreads review by Garrison on April 22, 2017

On a frosty winter in Reno, Nevada, former Wall Street executive Mags Rogers moves in with her great aunt Jeep Reed and brings along her wire-haired dachshund Baxter. During her stay, she becomes entangled in a mystery that involves blown up water pumps and dead bodies. Deputy Pete Meadows and his p......more

Goodreads review by Altivo on January 18, 2015

Can't call this one "furry" though the dogs are great, as are the illustrations which all show scenes involving the dogs. I notice that this book received some negative reviews for length, complexity, and the amount of descriptive or background material. I just want to say that I enjoyed the book im......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on December 20, 2018

I found Jeep very interesting and I did get a history lesson. Not one of her best......more

Goodreads review by Susan on April 12, 2019

New series. Magdaleine Rogers (Mags) used to work on Wall Street. With the big crash she was wiped out and has come to her Aunt Jeep's in Nevada to stay and get back on her feet. She helps out her aunt with the work on the ranch. Mags also has a sister, a beautiful actress, who is not the best of pe......more