The Hunt Ball
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN-13
- 9780345485946
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 2005 at 310 pages, The Hunt Ball is the 4th Sister Jane novel, giving narrative point of view to hounds, horses, foxes, and local wildlife alongside Sister's own case-work, in the old-Virginia social comedy that distinguishes it from Brown's Mrs. Murphy books.
Key facts about The Hunt Ball
Rita Mae Brown wrote The Hunt Ball, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2005. The book has 310 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345485946 to find the main one.
The Hunt Ball is book 4 of 18 in the "Sister" Jane series. The series has 17 published books, while 1 more has an announced date. However, the series starts with Outfoxed (2000). Meanwhile, Pawsible Suspects comes next, with an announced date of 23 February 2027.
Additionally, Rita Mae Brown writes Runnymede and Mrs. Murphy as separate series. Those series sit on our family saga romance and cozy mystery shelves. The next announced Rita Mae Brown release is due on 23 February 2027, so there is still more to come.
About Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown is an American author and screenwriter whose literary career began with the groundbreaking 1973 novel Rubyfruit Jungle, one of the first mainstream American novels to portray a lesbian protagonist openly and became a landmark of feminist and LGBTQ literature. See every Rita Mae Brown book in order.
Its place in "Sister" Jane
The Hunt Ball is book 4 in the "Sister" Jane series. It follows Full Cry. It is followed by The Hounds and the Fury. See the full "Sister" Jane reading order.
Jane Arnold — known to everyone as "Sister" Jane — is the septuagenarian Master of Foxhounds for a Virginia hunt club, and Rita Mae Brown's second long-running mystery series, set in the same rolling hunt-country Virginia as Mrs. Murphy but built around a human amateur sleuth rather than a talking-animal narration gimmick. Sister runs her hunt with an old-money Virginian's total confidence, navigates the genteel social warfare of a horse-and-hound community where everyone has known everyone for generations, and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345485946