The Tell-tale Horse: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Rita Mae Brown
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $11.95
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 13367
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000UZQHU2
Publication Date: September 25, 2007
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The hunt is on in this new installment of Rita Mae Brown’s clever and engaging series. Only instead of chasing foxes into their dens, the locals must track down a killer and save the life of one of the most beloved folks in town.
It’s February, prime foxhunting season for the members of Virginia’s Jefferson Hunt Club. The girls at Custis Hall are finishing their last semester before heading off to college, the entrepreneurially shrewd Crawford Howard is still smarting from January’s breech in hound etiquette, and the Casanova Hunt Club is hosting their annual ball. New neighbors bring new friendships, and romance is in the air.
Then a shocking event alarms the community. A woman is found brutally murdered, stripped naked, and meticulously placed atop a horse statue outside a tack shop. The theft of a treasured foxhunting prize inside the store may be linked to the grisly scene, and everyone is on edge.
With few clues to go on, “Sister” Jane Arnold, master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, uses her fine-tuned horse sense to try to solve the mystery of this “Lady Godiva” murder. The septuagenarian still has a strong spring in her step and her wits about her, but that may not be enough. As Sister gets closer to the truth, she could become the killer’s next victim.
But humans aren’t the only ones equipped to sniff out the trail. The local foxes, horses, and hounds have their own theories on the whodunit. If only these peculiar people could just listen to them, they’d see that the killer might be right under their oblivious noses.
Once again, this charming southern community finds itself caught up in a bone-chilling tale of murder and greed. It’s up to everyone, two- and four-legged alike, to band together, beat the bushes, and bring to bay the evil forces that have declared the Jefferson Hunt Club fair game–because foul play is never in season.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 a good read November 30, 2008
Lezley K. Ahonen
I enjoyed this book as I have all the others in this series, the author, being a "Master" herself writes of something she knows and loves and it shows in her stories.
 I tried to like it, I really did. September 23, 2008
Maryland Maid (The Wilds of Calvert County Maryland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mrs. Brown writes a good mystery. My problem with this series and the Mrs. Murphy stories is that she wants everyone who reads them to know her political views. If I had wanted to read a book on politics I would have. I wanted to read a mystery with foxhunting as an aside. As with the Mrs Murphy series the books have become a way for Mrs. Brown to broadcast her opinions on every she considers wrong with the world. None of them improve the story in the slightest. I've got my own views on things and I don't need to be preached to in the middle of a "cozy" mystery. If the next book is more of the same I will move on to another series with a more considerate author.
One of the finest series of modern fiction September 8, 2008
Suzecav (Pleasant Valley, NY)
Please see my comments in reply to the prior reviewer. It is my opinion that this series is one of the best of modern fiction. I do agree that it should be read from first publication to last. I hope that Ms. Brown will not change due to pressure of reviews and leave out details that do much to suspend disbelief and immerse us in her most enjoyable characters-if only for the length of the reading! Again, I will say that I want to enjoy Sister Jane's morning coffee, walk with her to the older and younger fox dens and see through her extraordinarily observant eyes. There is much to be learned from these novels about how we live today as opposed to how we could live.
 good story, poor editing February 20, 2008
J. E. Schwartz (Craryville, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Beihg a horse person, I avidly read all of Rita Mae Brown's "sister jane" books. While this story is somewhat engaging, I felt the editing and sentence structure were terrible. Every sentence was full of fragments, strung together by an over abundance of commas. Made for a disjointed read. Here's a sample: "Ilona Merriman, hairnet in place, derby correctly placed on her head - which is to say, straight across the brow -rode up to Sister, reined in Tom Tiger, her handy small Thoroughbred, gave a pregnant pause, and then tattled." Almost every sentence is structured this way. Found it very distracting from the storyline.
What has happened to Rita Mae Brown? February 1, 2008
Horsemom
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Rita Mae Brown can be a wonderful writer. Unfortunately, in this series, and in the Mrs. Murphy series, of late, she seems to have forgotten her audience. The characters are becoming wooden, and the plots are less involved, while Brown spends pages pontificating on various subjects that are not relevant to the story. Pass on this one unless you are really a die-hard fan.
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