Rest in Pieces — Rita Mae Brown

Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the cat's meow....Maybe she should think again.

Small towns don't take kindly to strangers unless the stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous and seemingly unattached male. When Blair Bainbridge comes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakers lose no time in declaring him perfect for their newly divorced postmistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Even Harry's tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, believe he smells A-okay.

Could his one little imperfection be that he's a killer?

Blair becomes the most likely suspect when the pieces of a dismembered corpse begin turning up around Crozet. No one knows who the dead man is, but when a grisly clue makes a spectacular appearance in the middle of the fall festivities, more than an early winter snow begins chilling the blood of Crozet's very best people.

That's when Mrs. Murphy, her friend Tucker, and her human companion Harry begin to sort through the clues... only to find themselves a whisker away from becoming the killer's next victims.