Book Review: A Hiss Before Dying

We are always excited to start one of Rita Mae Brown’s Mrs.
Murphy mysteries. The world she writes of—Crozet, Virginia, and its environs—is
so beautifully and richly described, we expect to look out our window and see
the Blue Ridge Mountains. And her characters, whom we have been reading of for
over twenty years now, are like old friends. Of course there is a cat—two, in
fact, or three, if