Kate Forbes
Author
Series
Carolina heirlooms volume 3
Language
English
Description
Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at The Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney's estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Judy obtains a mood ring, she tries to convince herself and her third-grade classmates that she can predict the future.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 21
Language
English
Description
In a story written from Sneaky Pie's perspective, the intrepid feline sleuth temporarily halts her busy writing career to run for President, a campaign marked by a revolutionary animal-rights agenda and a frisky flock of prospective cabinet members.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 27
Language
English
Description
"Rita Mae Brown and her feline coauthor Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. As feline collaborators go, you couldn't ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown." The New York Times Book Review. With the New Year just around the corner, winter has transformed the cozy Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia, into a living snow globe. It's the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Returning to Georgia after her divorce, Carly Linton, determined to start a new life, sets her sights on local sheriff Matt Converse, the town's former bad boy, but her plans of seduction are thwarted when a dead body is discovered on her property and someone makes it quite clear that she is no longer welcome in the town of Benton.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
With rabies on the rise and a new post office threatening her position, Harry Haristeen and her trio of feline detective friends find themselves in even more trouble when they start snooping around an irresistible mystery.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 13
Language
English
Description
The peaceful town of Crozet, Virginia, is turned upside down by a statue of the Virgin Mary that begins to cry tears of real blood, as Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her sleuthing pets search for the truth about a local unsolved mystery.
10) Tall tail
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 25
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in eighteenth-century Virginia—uncovering a shocking secret that refuses to stay buried.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 6
Language
English
Description
When a phony obituary for the headmaster of St. Elizabeth's School appears in the local newspaper, the people of Crozet, Virginia are surprised, but not too concerned. For a small town, Crozet has more than its share of mischief. But when a second fake obituary is followed by a murder, the police are baffled. Now Mrs. Murphy knows she must help Harry discover the killer.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 28
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a body in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains dredges up mysteries that have lingered from Revolutionary Virginia through the Civil War and beyond, in a supernaturally thrilling new tale from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. A trial is underway in Albemarle County, where Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her trusty crew of two- and four-legged friends hope to catch a killer--who may not be the person accused...
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The annual steeplechase at Montpelier, the high point in the social calendar of the horse set in Virginia, is disturbed by the stabbing of two jockeys, each with a playing card attached to his body. Sleuth Mrs. Murphy and her cat investigate, wondering whether the motive was greed, drugs or sex.
14) Catch as cat can
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a rare set of hubcaps is stolen, it seems like a harmless offense, until the suspected thief is found hanged in the woods. Soon the body count rises, forcing Harry to divide her time between getting to the bottom of the malfeasance and dating a handsome visitor from Uraguay.
15) Hiss of death
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 19
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly before the 5K Run for Breast Cancer Awareness, Harry and her pets find the corpse of well-liked OR nurse Paula Benton, one of the event's organizers, who appears to have died of anaphylactic shock from a hornet's sting. But was it murder?
16) Puss 'n cahoots
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 15
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
The famous Saddlebred show in Shelbyville, Kentucky, is the perfect opportunity for remarried newlyweds Harry and Fair Haristeen to finally go on their long-delayed (second) honeymoon-a chance to combine business and pleasure, as well as to drop in on some old friends. Mrs. Murphy (a tabby cat), Tucker (a Corgi), and Pewter (a fat gray kitty) are all along for the trip as well, and when their hosts are robbed the very first day they arrive, Mrs. Murphy...
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Haristeen and the peaceable residents of Crozet, Virginia, are found busily preparing their gardens and homes for winter. When wealthy Carla Paulson begins plotting her extravagant new home, she ruffles more than a few feathers. Soon Carla is stabbed to death, and standing over her with knife in hand is one of Harry's good friends.
19) Muggie Maggie
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2000, c1990
Language
English
Description
Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge to her.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, Mary Harry Haristeen has a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. But as murders are discovered all over Crozet, Harry remembers that every victim received a postcard with a picture of a graveyard on the front and the message "wish you were here" on the back.