Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during May 2017 is …
A Hiss Before Dying by Rita Mae Brown, a Mrs. Murphy Mystery (26th in series)
Publisher: Bantam
Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia — and all the traditions of the changing seasons are under way. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen cleans her cupboards, her husband, Fair, prepares the horses for the shorter days ahead, and the clamorous barking of beagles signals the annual rabbit chase through the central Virginia hills. But the last thing the local beaglers and their hounds expect to flush out is a dead body.
Disturbingly, it's the second corpse to turn up, after that of a missing truck driver too disfigured to identify. The deaths seem unrelated — until Harry picks up a trail of clues dating back to the state's post-Revolutionary past.
The echoes of the Shot Heard Round the World pale in comparison to the dangerous shootout Harry narrowly escapes unscathed. Next time, it may be the killer who gets lucky. But not if Harry's furry friends Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker can help it. Lending their sharp-nosed talents to the hunt, they'll help their mistress keep more lives from being lost — and right an injustice buried since the early days of America's independence.
— A Hiss Before Dying by Rita Mae Brown
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for May 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of May 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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