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    A Nose for Justice
    A Nose for Justice
    A Nose for Justice
    Audiobook8 hours

    A Nose for Justice

    Written by Rita Mae Brown

    Narrated by Johanna Parker

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    About this audiobook

    Co-author of the best-selling Mrs. Murphy novels, Rita Mae Brown launches a new series with this first mystery featuring Baxter the wirehaired dachshund. When Baxter and his owner Mags leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered man's bones-dating back to the 1800s-are unearthed in a barn owned by Mags' great-aunt. As Mags attempts to put the pieces together, Baxter readies himself to protect her at all costs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 21, 2010
    ISBN9781449839703
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    • 4/5
      If you've never read Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie Brown books, then you will no doubt think this book is the cutest thing since Winnie the Pooh. If you like the Sneaky Pie's books, then this one will have a very familiar ring to it. Just imagine that Harry Haristeen has transferred to Reno, NV, and you will pretty well have the picture. The crime-solvers in this case are two dogs rather than a cat and two dogs, but the dogs do talk to each other. Furthermore, they definitely view their humans as rather inferior to them, which is no doubt true. The action takes place on the Wings Ranch and centers around water rights with a few murders thrown in for good measure. In the end, the dogs save the day and a life. It's fun, but it does tend to bog down in places when Brown launches a tirade about one of the various causes touted in the book. Still, a good read overall.
    • 3/5
      Good mystery, interesting characters. But a little heavy on water rights details.
    • 4/5
      I’ve read a good number of Rita Mae Brown’s Mrs. Murphy series and enjoyed them. This book is a different series with similarities to the Mrs. Murphy series.Set in Nevada, Mags Rogers and her wirehaired dachshund, Baxter, have relocated to the Wings Ranch, owned by Jeep Reed. Jeep is Mags’ great-aunt and the owner of Wings Ranch. Along with Jeep, her Shepard mix, King, and her son and daughter-in-law live and run the ranch.When one of the Red Rock Valley’s water pumping stations is sabotaged by a pipe bomb, and then another station is, it becomes apparent someone has it in for Silver State Resource Management, the company who handles water distribution for the area. Water is a precious commodity and also can be big business. These vandalisms not only affect SSRM but also the community.Deputy Pete Meadows is heading the investigation and when he and Mags meet up it looks like there is a strong attraction between them. A little romance is in the plot?The two dogs, Baxter and King, initially are unsure of each other but then find they each have complimenting strengths and both are loyal to their humans. In light of this they team up to help solve the bombings.A side plot is while Mags is doing online research to help with the investigation, she stumbles on a connection between Buffalo Bill and Jeep’s ranch. A side trip into the history of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show is interesting.An enjoyable cozy read in a Western setting. This appears to be the first in the series.
    • 3/5
      When Magdalene Rogers (Mags) flees the financial meltdown and her banking job in New York City for the Nevada ranch belonging to her great-aunt, known as Jeep to her friends, she brings along her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter. Mags is still getting used to the rhythms of rural life when she is recruited to help Jeep and her neighbors with a burgeoning problem: a local corporation is attempting to divert their water supply to Reno, and is willing to go to any lengths to do so.

      The mystery doesn't have a great deal of depth but the dogs are adorable and the way they talked to each other was really cute. Depending on your point of view you may or may not appreciate the author's political lecturing on what she thinks is wrong with America. I doubt I continue with the series but a fan of her Sneaky Pie books will probably enjoy this as well.
    • 3/5
      The illustrations are one of the best things about the book. The story is OK, but some of the characters seem too good to be credible. The dogs could have played a bigger role throughout the story rather then just at the end (where they saved the day). The sermonizing about the water resources is overdone and the carping about the state of society is tedious too. All in all I think this is for hard-core Rita-Mae Brown fans.
    • 2/5
      Disappointing, but so was Rita Mae Brown's last novel. Characters are likeable enough, but too much exposition and history lesson about water conservation and the region. Not much really happens in this novel. Also, animals aren't well developed or as entertaining.
    • 4/5
      If you've never read Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie Brown books, then you will no doubt think this book is the cutest thing since Winnie the Pooh. If you like the Sneaky Pie's books, then this one will have a very familiar ring to it. Just imagine that Harry Haristeen has transferred to Reno, NV, and you will pretty well have the picture. The crime-solvers in this case are two dogs rather than a cat and two dogs, but the dogs do talk to each other. Furthermore, they definitely view their humans as rather inferior to them, which is no doubt true. The action takes place on the Wings Ranch and centers around water rights with a few murders thrown in for good measure. In the end, the dogs save the day and a life. It's fun, but it does tend to bog down in places when Brown launches a tirade about one of the various causes touted in the book. Still, a good read overall.