Rita Mae Brown Books in Order

Molly Bolt grows up poor, adopted, and unwilling to hide who she is. Funny, sharp, and defiant, she pushes against class rules and sexual hypocrisy on her way from the South to New York.

An early poetry collection that mixes desire, anger, tenderness, and feminist politics in a direct voice. It shows Brown's literary roots before many readers met her as a novelist.

A brisk collection of essays and observations on feminism, lesbian identity, politics, and language. Brown writes in the same blunt, conversational spirit that runs through her fiction.

In the charged politics of early 1970s Greenwich Village, an art history professor and a much younger feminist begin a relationship that upends both desire and ideology. Brown keeps the story sharp, funny, and emotionally messy.

Set in the town of Runnymede on the Mason-Dixon line, this novel follows the Hunsenmeir sisters and a lively cast of relatives and rivals. It is sprawling, funny, and rich in family legend.

In Montgomery, Alabama, Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre is trapped in old money and a loveless marriage until scandalous love upends everything. Brown uses sharp humor and vivid characters to explore passion and survival.

Carmen Semanan is a top tennis champion chasing the Grand Slam while scandal, money trouble, and old love explode around her. Brown takes readers behind the scenes of women's professional tennis with speed and bite.

On the day the Civil War begins, Geneva Chatfield marries Nash Hart, then cuts her hair and joins the Confederate Army to stay near him. Brown turns mistaken identity, battle, and love into a sweeping historical novel.

A collection that shows Brown in poetic mode, writing about politics, love, and the hard edges of everyday life. The tone is plainspoken, personal, and often quietly confrontational.

Back in Runnymede, old grudges, new romances, and comic disasters keep the town in motion. Brown follows its women with warmth and bite as family loyalties and private desires collide.

Part writing guide and part memoir, Brown offers blunt advice about discipline, money, rejection, and the strange business of becoming a working writer. It is practical, funny, and very much in her own voice.

In Crozet, Virginia, postcards marked Wish You Were Here arrive before people start turning up dead. Harry Harristeen investigates, while her cat Mrs. Murphy and corgi Tee Tucker spot the pattern first.

A handsome newcomer charms Crozet just as pieces of a dismembered corpse begin appearing around town. Harry, Mrs. Murphy, and Tee Tucker have to decide whether the stranger is merely irresistible or dangerously wrong.

Believing she is dying, Frazier Armstrong sends brutally honest letters to family and friends, finally telling them she is gay. Then she survives, and Charlottesville has to deal with the fallout.

Brown imagines Dolley Madison as a vivid, ambitious woman moving through love, politics, and war in the early republic. It is historical fiction with a sharp eye for personality as well as power.

An archaeological dig at Monticello uncovers a centuries-old skeleton, and soon Harry is chasing a very modern killer. Brown ties Virginia history to a present-day mystery with cats, dogs, and plenty of local feeling.

A belligerent biker storms into Crozet looking for his girlfriend, then winds up murdered. Harry and her animal allies dig through gossip and grudges to find the killer before the case hits even closer to home.

The annual steeplechase should be the social high point of the season, until a jockey is found murdered in the main barn. Harry and Mrs. Murphy race to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again.

A fox hunt in Virginia's horse country sends Cig Blackwood into a time-travel adventure that reaches back to the 1690s. Brown mixes infidelity, single motherhood, betrayal, and self-discovery with lively farce.

Brown looks back on activism, publishing, Hollywood, and life in Virginia in a memoir full of candor and impatience with nonsense. Readers looking for the woman behind the fiction will find plenty here.

A fake obituary in the local paper looks like a cruel joke, until murder follows. Mrs. Murphy senses real malice at work, and Harry must sort through jealousy, scandal, and fear spreading through Crozet.

A man disappears as Crozet prepares for a Civil War reenactment, then a participant is shot with very real bullets. Mrs. Murphy and her friends track a case where old secrets threaten living people.

After Pearl Harbor, the women of Runnymede face wartime strain, neighborhood gossip, and a financial mess that lands two sisters in a beauty salon. Brown balances home-front anxiety with comic small-town chaos.

A playful cookbook from Sneaky Pie Brown, mixing recipes for humans and cats with anecdotes from life around the Mrs. Murphy books. It is light, oddball, and aimed squarely at fans of the series.

When a body is found posed on the foxhunting grounds, Master of Foxhounds Sister Jane Arnold starts asking hard questions. The first book sets the pattern for a series steeped in Virginia hunt country.

Harry helps organize her twentieth high school reunion just as eerie notes begin arriving. When an old classmate is murdered, Mrs. Murphy realizes someone has been nursing revenge for twenty years.

At William and Mary, Vic Savedge thinks her future is already planned, until she falls for a woman named Chris. Brown turns college life, family expectation, and first love into an intimate coming-of-age story.

Winter boredom vanishes when gossip from Crozet Hospital turns deadly. Harry's search for answers uncovers jealousy, illicit affairs, and a secret that reaches back to the Underground Railroad.

As the Dogwood Festival nears, a mechanic dies and dirty money surfaces in Crozet. Harry goes after a cold-blooded killer while Mrs. Murphy already knows the danger is moving closer to her favorite human.

Sister Jane Arnold faces another killing in Virginia hunt country, where long memory and sharp pride can be just as dangerous as open malice. Brown leans into the world she knows best.

A murder shakes the Jefferson Hunt Club, and Sister Jane Arnold tracks the truth through a world ruled by land, status, and old custom. Horses, hounds, and foxes help widen the field of view.

After a contractor drops dead in a parking lot following a Virginia basketball game, Harry cannot let the case go. A second murder and old history pull her deeper, while the animals sense trouble first.

A handsome horse breeder is murdered near Potlicker Creek, and an autopsy reveals an alarming twist. Harry's digging links the crime to a woman and stallion who vanished thirty years earlier.

At a mountain monastery, a statue appears to weep blood just before a monk dies and his coffin turns up empty. Harry and her pets step into a case where faith, rumor, and murder collide.

The rituals of the hunt season and one of its grandest social evenings form the backdrop to murder. Sister Jane Arnold has to read manners, memory, and motive with the same care she reads a field.

Harry's remarriage is barely underway when a visiting grape expert is found decapitated. What first looks political becomes far more local, and Harry's new vineyard gives her even more reason to keep digging.

Murder and mounting strain ripple through Virginia hunt country as Sister Jane Arnold tries to protect both her club and her friends. It is a broad, atmospheric mystery full of animals and social fault lines.

Harry and Fair head to the famous horse show in Shelbyville, Kentucky, hoping for a second honeymoon. Instead they get theft, a missing mare, and murder in a world where winning matters far too much.

Sister Jane Arnold follows a murder case in which horses and hunt-country instincts matter as much as formal evidence. Old loyalties, quiet grudges, and close observation drive the story.

A killing hits Sister Jane Arnold's hunt community and threatens the order she works hard to maintain. Brown builds the mystery through kennels, stables, country lanes, and the lies people tell themselves.

Christmas in Crozet turns grim when Harry and Fair find a corpse hanging from a tree at a mountain farm. As more prominent men die, the holiday mystery grows darker and more dangerous.

A rich newcomer is stabbed after a fund-raiser, with one of Harry's friends seemingly caught red-handed. Harry and her four-legged partners doubt the easy answer and look for the real killer.

A family drama about love, marriage, and the structures people build to keep difficult truths at bay. Brown uses close relationships and Southern memory to show how unstable a carefully arranged life can be.

Brown remembers the cats, dogs, horses, and other creatures that shaped her life, blending memoir, humor, and practical knowledge. It is a warm, lively book for readers who love her animal-filled fiction.

Former Wall Street professional Mags Rogers lands at her great-aunt's Nevada ranch with dachshund Baxter and hopes to start over. Instead she finds sabotage, murder, western history, and a deputy worth trusting.

Aunt Tally is about to turn one hundred, and a school fund-raiser in her honor should be cause for celebration. Then a blizzard, a missing board member, and an old death turn the party into a murder case.

Spring finds Harry dealing with a frightening health crisis while mysterious deaths begin circling a local hospital. She and her animals cannot resist a case that grows stranger with every new victim.

Settling into Nevada ranch life, Mags Rogers tries to help families ruined by foreclosures when a former banker is killed. Dogs, blackmail, shady real estate deals, and local corruption drive the mystery.

A string of bizarre murders sweeps the East Coast, and Sister Jane Arnold joins forces with her animal allies to find the link. The case reaches beyond one hunt club without losing its Virginia footing.

Sneaky Pie Brown steps out of the mystery line and runs for President of the United States. It is a light, satirical romp, with animal sidekicks, campaign jokes, and a very feline political platform.

A pair of odd vehicle mishaps leads Harry toward a murdered mechanic and powerful people who do not want questions asked. Her pets sense the danger before Harry realizes just how exposed she is.

Halloween arrives early when Harry finds a murder victim posed like a scarecrow in a Crozet cornfield. The trail leads to a lucrative scheme, and only sharp animal senses can help keep her alive.

A blackmailer stalks wealthy people in Sister Jane Arnold's world, forcing hunters into the role of hunted. Sister reads both people and animals closely as reputation, money, and fear begin to unravel.

Two suspicious deaths, severed fingers in a church office, and the long-ago disappearance of Harry's Latin teacher all point to buried crimes. Harry and her pets dig through a cold case in deep winter.

A beloved University of Virginia professor is shot on a golf course, and a shaky confession solves nothing. Harry follows the clues into Revolutionary history while Mrs. Murphy and the others stay alert for danger.

In 1920 Runnymede, the freethinking Hunsenmeir sisters and the Chalfonte family navigate love, class, and a town changing after World War I. It is warm, busy, and gloriously full of local talk.

A nurse connected to a former Virginia governor dies in what looks like a natural crash, but Harry is not convinced. Her investigation reaches back to an eighteenth-century murder that still casts a shadow.

A hunting horn vanishes from the Museum of Hounds and Hunting, and a strange video seems to speak from the dead. Sister Jane Arnold traces the puzzle back to the Jefferson Hunt Club and its past.

Autumn leaves hide a grim discovery, and Harry is drawn into a case that reaches back to the earliest days of the republic. Mrs. Murphy and the others race to stop more deaths and expose an old injustice.

Sister Jane Arnold follows a fresh trail of murder through the familiar world of barns, kennels, and guarded local loyalties. Brown keeps the focus on hunt-country manners and the secrets beneath them.

Winter turns Crozet into a snow globe, but Harry's latest case is anything but cozy. As past and present mysteries converge, she uncovers corruption that powerful people would rather keep buried.

Missing artwork, money, and wounded pride spiral toward murder in Sister Jane Arnold's circle. The case lets Brown bring foxhunting ritual, class tension, and sharp animal observation together.

Another Crozet murder pulls Harry and her animal companions into a tangle of local secrets and growing danger. Brown keeps the focus on small-town life, sharp animal commentary, and a threat hiding nearby.

A church homecoming, brewery thefts, and a charity-auction poisoning all collide in Crozet. Harry and her pets chase a killer with a dangerous knowledge of plants, while an old burial mystery deepens the case.

A young equine vet is found dead in his unopened clinic, and stolen ketamine points toward trouble. At the same time, a vicious family quarrel over a will and historic letters threatens to turn deadly too.

A blackmailer targets wealthy members of Sister Jane Arnold's hunt club, turning hunters into prey. Sister must protect friends who may also be hiding things, before scandal turns fully murderous.

Another hunting season brings another death for Sister Jane Arnold to untangle. Brown once again mixes horses, hounds, old rivalries, and the tightly woven social codes of Virginia hunt country.

Christmas cheer in Crozet is interrupted by a string of unidentified bodies carrying traces of a deadly drug. While Harry juggles holiday errands and a new dog-show project, her pets nose out a larger pattern.

A body is laid out on Sister Jane Arnold's foxhunting grounds, and cryptic signs suggest more trouble is coming. She must untangle murder, theft, and hunt-club loyalties before another warning becomes a funeral.

Political infighting at the Virginia House of Delegates turns deadly when a young page dies under suspicious circumstances. Harry and her animals head to the statehouse to sort through rivals, ambition, and murder.

While helping round up escaped cattle and leading another foxhunting season, Sister Jane Arnold finds an expensive watch and a fresh mystery. The trail leads through old relationships and quiet country secrets.

Two brothers feud over an inheritance and a beagle kennel until one of them winds up dead. Sister Jane Arnold hunts for the truth in a case driven by family resentment and small-town memory.

A decades-old car rises from a creek with a body still inside, just as Harry helps plan a reunion at a restored segregated school. The new case tangles murder with memory, land, and development.

As Harry and Susan prepare a Halloween bash in rainy autumn Crozet, one local death becomes several. Harry, Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, Tee Tucker, and Pirate chase the connection before the town grows even spookier.