Tall tail [large print] : a Mrs. Murphy mystery / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrated by Michael Gellatly.

Large print edition.

Summary: At any moment a perfect summer day in Crozet, Virginia -- nestled within the Blue Ridge Mountains -- might turn stormy, as Harry knows too well when a squall suddenly sweeps in. In a blink, Harry's pickup nearly collides with a careening car that then swerves into a ditch. Harry recognizes the dead driver slumped over the vehicle's steering wheel: Barbara Leader was nurse and confidante to former governor Sam Holloway. Though Barbara's death is ruled a heart attack, dissenting opinions abound. After all, she was the picture of health, which gives Harry and her four-legged companions pause. A baffling break-in at a local business leads Harry to suspect that a person with malevolent intent lurks just out of sight: Something evil is afoot. As it happens, Barbara died in the shadow of a local cemetery's statue of the Avenging Angel. Just below that imposing funereal monument lie the remains of one Francisco Selisse, brutally murdered in 1784. Harry's present-day sleuthing draws her back to Virginia's slave-holding past and the hunt for Selisse's killer. Now it's up to Harry and her furry detectives -- Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tee Tucker -- to expose the bitter truth, even if it means staring into the unforgiving eyes of history and cornering a callous killer poised to pounce.

9781410489876 (hardback : large print)
1410489876 (hardcover large print)

2016015524

944087717

ccp.993905