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Title

Murder unleashed : a novel / Rita Mae Brown ; illustrated by Laura Hartman Maestro.

Author

Brown, Rita Mae

Publication

New York : Ballantine Books, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Hartman, Laura
• Hartman, Laura.

Description

xii, 267 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in this novel. Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The foreclosure crisis has taken a huge bite out of the local real estate market, where rows of homes sit unsold and forsaken- but not empty. A group of squatters, including desperate single mothers with children, are living under the radar in the houses on Reno's Yolanda Street, without water or electricity. Big-hearted real estate broker Babs Gallagher enlists Jeep and Mags to start a community outreach program, but that means going up against uncaring utility companies, corrupt officials, ruthless politicians- and a merciless murderer. When a former banker is found brutally slain in one of the abandoned homes, the notion of "cutthroat business practices" takes on a whole new meaning.--From front book jacket flap.

Subject

• Dogs > Fiction
• Ranch life > Nevada > Fiction
• Murder > Investigation > Fiction
• Real estate business > Fiction
• Reno (Nev.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Mystery fiction
• Detective and mystery stories.
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780345511836 (hbk.)
• 0345511832 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2011029092

OCLC

• 697261664
• SCSB-11054939

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library