The Hounds and the Fury: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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Critics and fans alike are wild about Rita Mae Brown’s richly imagined and utterlyengaging foxhunting mysteries–and this latest novel promises more thrilling hunts,breathtaking vistas, and an all-new sinister scandal.

Millions of dollars seemto be missing after a long-overdue audit of the local aluminum plant reveals a majoraccounting discrepancy. Company president Garvey Stokes finds himself at a loss–inmore ways than one. He turns to his sharp-tongued, ornery bookkeeper, Iphigenia “Iffy”Demetrios, for an explanation, but she’s no help. Yet when the fuzzy math suddenlyincludes a body count, the figures can no longer be ignored.

While the town sherifftries to get to the bottom of the matter, leave it to “Sister” Jane Arnold, venerablemaster of the Jefferson Hunt Club, to rely on her keen horse-and-hound sense to followthe trail of murder and cover-up. Throwing her off the scent, however, is formerhunt club donor and all-around cad Crawford Howard, who thinks he can go toe-to-toewith the beloved septuagenarian and outclass her club by grossly sidestepping hound-and-hunt etiquette. Against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a menagerieof friends, foes, and fresh new faces saddle up for the breakneck ride to unravelthe conspiracy. Even the furry denizens in the fields and boroughs have a thing ortwo to say about these peculiar humans.

Incomparable author Rita Mae Brown returnsto the glorious hills of Virginia and its genteel foxhunting society, where how muchmoney you have in the bank is not nearly as important as how long your family haslived on the land–and where nearly everyone has something to hide. As Sister muses,“The little secrets leak out. The big ones, well, some escape like evils from Pandora’s box. And others we’ll never know.”