Rita Mae Brown The Hunt Ball

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The Hunt Ball Rita Mae Brown Ballantine,

The Hunt Ball

Rita Mae Brown

Ballantine, Sep 2005, $24.95

ISBN: 0345465490

In Virginia, the students led by the "Three Musketeers" protest that their all girls' prep. school, Custis Hall, fails to properly credit slaves for creating some of the crafts on display. Though worthy, nothing really comes of their protest, at least that is what everyone involved thought at the time.

Everybody associated with Custis Hall seems to like good natured Al Perez. That is everyone except the person who murdered the director of alumnae affairs and fund raising for the school. His corpse hangs next to a "dummy" dead body at the students' Halloween dance. Though stunned by the homicide, Headmistress Charlotte Norton remains calm, and keeps everyone else relatively composed.

At about the same time, seventy-two year old "Sister" Jane Arnold, the Master of the Virginia Jefferson Hunt Club, learns of the death. She begins making enquires, assisted by her beloved animals, but no motive seems to surface. Still, Jane assisted by the Three Musketeers and her assortment of foxhounds, horses, foxes, birds, and other "house pets", keeps digging, not realizing that someone is watching how close the menagerie gets to the truth.

Though Sneaky Pie is not a co-author, the animals have distinct personalities, names, and traits, and are able to communicate with one another; something the dumb humans except Jane fail to comprehend. The hunt and its related ball, are vividly described, so that the audience gets a taste of an upper crust event. The 'who done it' is cleverly developed, but takes a back seat to the antics of the animals (as is the case in most of Ms. Brown's novels). Fans of the author will enjoy watching the humans OUTFOXED by the animals at THE HUNT BALL.

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