"Sister" Jane · Book 4
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.
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