Another winner from Rita Mae Brown. I love how it switches from the past to the present. I'm heavily invested in the past and how Ewing will be able to bring DoRe to his farm. The present story was good but the whole language spy angle was a bit confusing. I did miss Harry being home and there wasn't enough Fair in this book. I do enjoy the addition of Pirate so Tucker will have a canine sibling. I eagerly await the next book.

Spring has arrived and volunteers are getting the National Beagle Club grounds ready for the first hunt of the season. Winter, however, hasn’t gotten the memo and a snowstorm is coming and completing the work will have to wait for another weekend.

The next weekend brings two murders to the forefront as one of the volunteers is found murdered and a long buried woman is buried after her body was discovered in another family’s plot. Here the story line splits to tell both stories from the 1780s and today.

I found the current day murder to have been a bit intriguing once it was solved. Having lived In Virginia on a Civil War battle field with mounds of old graves, I found the location and background to be intersting. But I had to get halfway into the book before I actually was fully vested. Not sure I would read another in this series.

I love all of Rita Mae's books, especially this series. I love that it switches between the early years of America and the present. Fun read and we learn how the past can affect the present

Another brilliant work by Rita Mae Brown. Will definitely be buying and recommending! Fresh, fun, and fantastic!

Two stories in one book, one about the past and the time of slavery, one today about a hound race. The two stories meet at a graveyard. Talking cats and dogs make the book fun to read

A massive nor’easter has hit northern Virginia, where Mary Minor “Harry” Harristeen joins groundskeeping efforts at the National Beagle Club at Aldie as the date for its springtime Hounds for Heroes veterans’ benefit approaches. Harry’s fellow volunteers, including her oldest friend, Susan Tucker, comprise a spirited group of hunting enthusiasts, some former service members themselves. But things take a sinister turn when, after a routine tree cleanup along the Club’s hunting trails, retired foreign services officer Jason Holzknect is found dead, throat slit from ear to ear. Soon enough, another murder in their midst jolts the preparations, convincing Harry that the killer is familiar with the Club—and must be close by, masked in plain sight.



Thank you to net galley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this book it was a great experience

Whiskers in the Dark by Rita Mae Brown is not the first in the series, but it was the first I've read. Two mysteries happening at the same time - one present day and one historical - so there's a lot for the reader to follow along with. Nicely written, and even the pets have a say in the story. Everything wrapped up nicely at the end. Enjoyable.

Another great Harry and animals adventure. This time folks are dying around a beagle and basset hound contest. I’m enjoying the story in 1787 as much as the modern story.
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