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Rita Mae Brown

(1944 - )

About Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown is the highly prolific best-selling author of many titles including Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, Southern Discomfort, Sudden Death, and a memoir, Rita Will. With her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie, she also collaborates on the New York Times best-selling Mrs. Murphy mystery series, including Wish You Were Here (available from Turnaround). An Emmy nominated screenwriter and a poet, she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Animal Magnetism

Cat of the Century
(Mrs Murphy, book 18)

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Hounded to Death
(Jane Arnold, book 7)

Santa Clawed
(Mrs Murphy, book 17)

Series

Runnymede
1. Six of One (1978)
2. Bingo (1988)
3. Loose Lips (1999)
4. The Sand Castle (2008)

Mrs Murphy (with Sneaky Pie Brown)
1. Wish You Were Here (1990)
2. Rest In Pieces (1992)
3. Murder at Monticello (1994)
aka Or, Old Sins
4. Pay Dirt, or Adventures at Ash Lawn (1995)
5. Murder, She Meowed (1996)
6. Murder on the Prowl (1998)
7. Cat on the Scent (1999)
8. Pawing Through the Past (2000)
9. Claws and Effect (2001)
10. Catch As Cat Can (2002)
11. The Tail of the Tip-Off (2003)
12. Whisker of Evil (2004)
13. Cat's Eyewitness (2005)
14. Sour Puss (2006)
15. Puss 'n Cahoots (2007)
16. The Purrfect Murder (2008)
17. Santa Clawed (2008)
18. Cat of the Century (2010)
Three Mrs. Murphy Mysteries: Wish You Were Here / Rest in Pieces / Murder at Monticello (omnibus) (2003)
Three More Mrs. Murphy Mysteries in One Volume: Pay Dirt / Murder, She Meowed / Murder on the Prowl (omnibus) (2005)

Jane Arnold
1. Outfoxed (2000)
2. Hotspur (2002)
3. Full Cry (2003)
4. The Hunt Ball (2005)
5. The Hounds and the Fury (2006)
6. The Tell-tale Horse (2007)
7. Hounded to Death (2008)

Novels

Omnibus

The Third Three Mrs. Murphy Mysteries in One Volume (2007)

Collections

Hrotsvitha: Six Medieval Latin Plays (1961)
The Hand That Cradles the Rock (poems) (1971)
Songs to a Handsome Woman (1973)
Poems of Rita Mae Brown (poems) (1987)

Non fiction

The Plain Brown Rapper (1976)
Starting From Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual (1988)
Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser (1997)
Sneaky Pie's Cookbook for Mystery Lovers (1999) (with Sneaky Pie Brown)
Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small (2009)

Links to other websites

ritamaebrown.com

Rita Mae Brown recommends

Bittersweet (1984) Nevada Barr "This is a knockout."	Mother May I (1998) (Sydney Sloane, book 4) Randye Lordon "You'll ask for more than 'Mother May I' when you read this book. In fact it's a mother of a book!"	Once Bitten (2001) (Melanie Travis, book 8) Laurien Berenson "Beware! Pick up Once Bitten and it will sink its fangs into your imagination. You'll read straight through to the end."
Flying Changes (2005) (Annemarie Zimmer, book 2) Sara Gruen "You will love this novel."	The False-Hearted Teddy (2007) (Bear Collector's Mystery) John J Lamb "Once you start, you can't bear to miss a teddy mystery."	The Dressmaker (2007) Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck "The Dressmaker doesn't drop a stitch."
Fool On the Hill (2008) (Tess Camillo Mystery, book 2) Morgan Hunt "Three cheers! Morgan Hunt gets better and better."

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