PAYDIRT

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Summary: I feel at home in Crozet!
Review: I absolutely love Rita Mae Brown's characters! I have approximately three more to read and I will have read all she has out at present. Through reading her Mrs. Murphy Mysteries, I have a very vivid appearance of each and every character in Crozet. They're family! Mrs. Murphy, Tucker and Pewter are like my two cats and one dog. Pay Dirt is a wonderful mystery as are all of her stories. I just can't get enough!

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Summary: I feel at home in Crozet!
Review: I absolutely love Rita Mae Brown's characters! I have approximately three more to read and I will have read all she has out at present. Through reading her Mrs. Murphy Mysteries, I have a very vivid appearance of each and every character in Crozet. They're family! Mrs. Murphy, Tucker and Pewter are like my two cats and one dog. Pay Dirt is a wonderful mystery as are all of her stories. I just can't get enough!

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Summary: Not That Bad, I Guess, but Not That Good Either!
Review: I know what I'm in for when I read a Sneaky Pie Brown book, so I shouldn't have been surprised with this one. It's the usual fare - murders in Crozet and all the citizens getting involved in trying to find the murderer. Then there's Tucker and Mrs. Murphy (Harry's pets) who always seem to figure things out before the humans do. These books are definitely of the "cozy" genre, and the characters themselves are quirky enough to make them interesting, but the stories are a little silly. I always figure out who the murderer is right at the very beginning of the book, and then there's usually one or two more murders after that, so as I read I wait for them to happen. In this book we have a dead biker first, and then some shenanigans at the local bank that seem to be connected with the dead biker. I will continue to read this series for the characters (for a time anyway).

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Summary: Cute...
Review: The 4th book in this series... again, proves to be a cute read.
Mrs. Murphy and Tee Tucker return with Harry to solve a murder. This book brings the return of Blair, Harry's possible romance, and develops a lot of the character relationships more.
I will be reading more in the series... (i think it's on #10 now!)
Very cute, easy read.

Rating:
Summary: Cute...
Review: The 4th book in this series... again, proves to be a cute read.
Mrs. Murphy and Tee Tucker return with Harry to solve a murder. This book brings the return of Blair, Harry's possible romance, and develops a lot of the character relationships more.
I will be reading more in the series... (i think it's on #10 now!)
Very cute, easy read.

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Summary: Which remote back alley did you say Murphy is from?
Review: To really enjoy Rita's Mrs. Murphy mystery series one must first get past the utter nonsense which constitutes both the "Introduction" at the beginning of each novel and the page at each novel's conclusion where "Sneaky Pie" tries to pawn her tie-in merchandise. Then once into the body of the novel itself one has to get past Rita's rather sloppy use of law enforcement terminology and her even sloppier descriptions of law enforcement procedures.

Blair Bainbridge is the only three dimensional character in this entire novel and he isn't even mentioned in the "Cast of Characters" (which is odd considering he is one of the regulars). At least with this novel the crime being committed is a white collar crime. These are the only two things in its favor.