Murder unleashed : a novel / Rita Mae Brown ; illustrated by Laura Hartman Maestro.
Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in this novel. Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The foreclosure crisis has taken a huge bite out of the local real estate market, where rows of homes sit unsold and forsaken- but not empty. A group of squatters, including desperate single mothers with children, are living under the radar in the houses on Reno's Yolanda Street, without water or electricity. Big-hearted real estate broker Babs Gallagher enlists Jeep and Mags to start a community outreach program, but that means going up against uncaring utility companies, corrupt officials, ruthless politicians- and a merciless murderer. When a former banker is found brutally slain in one of the abandoned homes, the notion of "cutthroat business practices" takes on a whole new meaning.--From front book jacket flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 0345511832
- ISBN: 9780345511836
- ISBN: 9780345530172
- Physical Description: xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
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- Dogs > Fiction.
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Reno (Nev.) > Fiction. - Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
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- 49 of 49 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Brown (Text) | 31010000365827 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | F BROWN (Text) | 30664100267431 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Barco Library | F BRO (Text) | 39488200829929 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bladen Main Branch | FIC BRO (Text) | 30441100617398 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bryan Memorial Library | F Bro (Text) | 810191001042945 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Canton Library | F (Text) | 33115007054625 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Charles H. Stone Memorial Library | F BROWN (Text) | 30665100336209 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | F BROWN (Text) | 22281500062400 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in this novel. Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The foreclosure crisis has taken a huge bite out of the local real estate market, where rows of homes sit unsold and forsaken- but not empty. A group of squatters, including desperate single mothers with children, are living under the radar in the houses on Reno's Yolanda Street, without water or electricity. Big-hearted real estate broker Babs Gallagher enlists Jeep and Mags to start a community outreach program, but that means going up against uncaring utility companies, corrupt officials, ruthless politicians- and a merciless murderer. When a former banker is found brutally slain in one of the abandoned homes, the notion of "cutthroat business practices" takes on a whole new meaning.--From front book jacket flap.
