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Author: Rita Mae Brown
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The Hounds and the Fury: A Novel Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345465481
ISBN: 0345465482
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2007-09-25
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Product Release Date: 2007-09-25
Studio: Ballantine Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345465481
ISBN: 0345465482
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2007-09-25
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Product Release Date: 2007-09-25
Studio: Ballantine Books
Editorial Review of The Hounds and the Fury: A Novel
Critics and fans alike are wild about Rita Mae Brown’s richly imagined and utterly engaging foxhunting mysteries–and this latest novel promises more thrilling hunts, breathtaking vistas, and an all-new sinister scandal.
Millions of dollars seem to be missing after a long-overdue audit of the local aluminum plant reveals a major accounting discrepancy. Company president Garvey Stokes finds himself at a loss–in more ways than one. He turns to his sharp-tongued, ornery bookkeeper, Iphigenia “Iffy” Demetrios, for an explanation, but she’s no help. Yet when the fuzzy math suddenly includes a body count, the figures can no longer be ignored.
While the town sheriff tries to get to the bottom of the matter, leave it to “Sister” Jane Arnold, venerable master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, to rely on her keen horse-and-hound sense to follow the trail of murder and cover-up. Throwing her off the scent, however, is former hunt club donor and all-around cad Crawford Howard, who thinks he can go toe-to-toe with the beloved septuagenarian and outclass her club by grossly sidestepping hound- and-hunt etiquette. Against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a menagerie of friends, foes, and fresh new faces saddle up for the breakneck ride to unravel the conspiracy. Even the furry denizens in the fields and boroughs have a thing or two to say about these peculiar humans.
Incomparable author Rita Mae Brown returns to the glorious hills of Virginia and its genteel foxhunting society, where how much money you have in the bank is not nearly as important as how long your family has lived on the land–and where nearly everyone has something to hide. As Sister muses, “The little secrets leak out. The big ones, well, some escape like evils from Pandora’s box. And others we’ll never know.”
From the Hardcover edition.
Millions of dollars seem to be missing after a long-overdue audit of the local aluminum plant reveals a major accounting discrepancy. Company president Garvey Stokes finds himself at a loss–in more ways than one. He turns to his sharp-tongued, ornery bookkeeper, Iphigenia “Iffy” Demetrios, for an explanation, but she’s no help. Yet when the fuzzy math suddenly includes a body count, the figures can no longer be ignored.
While the town sheriff tries to get to the bottom of the matter, leave it to “Sister” Jane Arnold, venerable master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, to rely on her keen horse-and-hound sense to follow the trail of murder and cover-up. Throwing her off the scent, however, is former hunt club donor and all-around cad Crawford Howard, who thinks he can go toe-to-toe with the beloved septuagenarian and outclass her club by grossly sidestepping hound- and-hunt etiquette. Against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a menagerie of friends, foes, and fresh new faces saddle up for the breakneck ride to unravel the conspiracy. Even the furry denizens in the fields and boroughs have a thing or two to say about these peculiar humans.
Incomparable author Rita Mae Brown returns to the glorious hills of Virginia and its genteel foxhunting society, where how much money you have in the bank is not nearly as important as how long your family has lived on the land–and where nearly everyone has something to hide. As Sister muses, “The little secrets leak out. The big ones, well, some escape like evils from Pandora’s box. And others we’ll never know.”
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews of The Hounds and the Fury: A Novel
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Always a good story
Review: I always enjoy Rita Mae Browns books. Her maine characters are people I would like to have as friends. I also love animals and like reading about them.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Come for the Gossip
Review: This is the fifth in Brown's Sister Jane fox hunting series and I would recommend reading the others first, in order. Outfoxed, Hotspur and Full Cry are splendid fun and decent mysteries. The Hunt Ball is a weaker mystery but still splendid fun and it sets up the conflict played out here between the Master of Foxhounds Jane Arnold and Crawford Howard, a former member of the Jefferson Hunt Club.
This book still has the wonderfully evocative hunt scenes that are the hallmark of this series. Excellent lore about horse, hound, fox and hunt club etiquette make this worth reading as long as the reader can tolerate in the eccentric habit the author has of putting long-winded and wordy speeches into the mouths of animals.
And "Sister" Jane Arnold is an interesting character. Although she is over seventy, one simply has to check in to see what is happening in her life with her new boyfriend.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: THE HOUNDS AND THE FURY
Review: I enjoy Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie series very much but this latest novel featuring the Hunt and Sister left me wondering about this theme that Ms. Brown is trying to "get across" to the "straight" crowd. Her political views would be better kept to herself, the snobbery of the Hunt Class and the people involved always "inserting" a lesbian character is leaving me cold. Story line is good, but I could do without her personal life opinions.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: i hated it
Review: I've long loved the Sister Arnold series but this one was just too much to stomach. It's preachy, that looooong section on England's foxhunt had zip to do with the story and was a personal argument from the author. Second, I found myself pitying the one character the reader was meant to hate--- this character was far more interesting than the good guys. As for the good guys they suddenly came off as smug and downright cruel to anyone who wasn't in the circle of Sister's friends. Speaking of Sister, I didn't like what's happened to her character, she's changed. I didn't like this version of her at all--maybe Brown just didn't put enough effort into this novel. The animals were wonderful but there wasn't enough of them. I found myself getting irritated as I read Hounds and the Fury and had to force myself to finish it. Will I buy the next book? Maybe, if I find it used somewhere and even then, only if it's super cheap.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Rita Mae Brown is fantastic!
Review: I would like to step into the world that Rita Mae Brown has created and ride with Sister Jane, Shaker, and the rest of those great people. I would like to lead her life and I hunger for every book that comes out. The fox hunting descriptions are totally accurate and I feel that Rita Mae Brown must have experienced or knows someone who experienced all of those great hunts - even the boar and the bear scenes which wouldn't happen in Ohio where I fox hunt (those particular scenes may be in earlier books). Even if there were no murders and no mystery, I would still read avidly every conversation and every event that happens to the Jefferson Hunt.
Review Summary: Always a good story
Review: I always enjoy Rita Mae Browns books. Her maine characters are people I would like to have as friends. I also love animals and like reading about them.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Come for the Gossip
Review: This is the fifth in Brown's Sister Jane fox hunting series and I would recommend reading the others first, in order. Outfoxed, Hotspur and Full Cry are splendid fun and decent mysteries. The Hunt Ball is a weaker mystery but still splendid fun and it sets up the conflict played out here between the Master of Foxhounds Jane Arnold and Crawford Howard, a former member of the Jefferson Hunt Club.
This book still has the wonderfully evocative hunt scenes that are the hallmark of this series. Excellent lore about horse, hound, fox and hunt club etiquette make this worth reading as long as the reader can tolerate in the eccentric habit the author has of putting long-winded and wordy speeches into the mouths of animals.
And "Sister" Jane Arnold is an interesting character. Although she is over seventy, one simply has to check in to see what is happening in her life with her new boyfriend.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: THE HOUNDS AND THE FURY
Review: I enjoy Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie series very much but this latest novel featuring the Hunt and Sister left me wondering about this theme that Ms. Brown is trying to "get across" to the "straight" crowd. Her political views would be better kept to herself, the snobbery of the Hunt Class and the people involved always "inserting" a lesbian character is leaving me cold. Story line is good, but I could do without her personal life opinions.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: i hated it
Review: I've long loved the Sister Arnold series but this one was just too much to stomach. It's preachy, that looooong section on England's foxhunt had zip to do with the story and was a personal argument from the author. Second, I found myself pitying the one character the reader was meant to hate--- this character was far more interesting than the good guys. As for the good guys they suddenly came off as smug and downright cruel to anyone who wasn't in the circle of Sister's friends. Speaking of Sister, I didn't like what's happened to her character, she's changed. I didn't like this version of her at all--maybe Brown just didn't put enough effort into this novel. The animals were wonderful but there wasn't enough of them. I found myself getting irritated as I read Hounds and the Fury and had to force myself to finish it. Will I buy the next book? Maybe, if I find it used somewhere and even then, only if it's super cheap.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Rita Mae Brown is fantastic!
Review: I would like to step into the world that Rita Mae Brown has created and ride with Sister Jane, Shaker, and the rest of those great people. I would like to lead her life and I hunger for every book that comes out. The fox hunting descriptions are totally accurate and I feel that Rita Mae Brown must have experienced or knows someone who experienced all of those great hunts - even the boar and the bear scenes which wouldn't happen in Ohio where I fox hunt (those particular scenes may be in earlier books). Even if there were no murders and no mystery, I would still read avidly every conversation and every event that happens to the Jefferson Hunt.