Reviews

A Nose for Justice by Rita Mae Brown

jeo224's review against another edition

hopeful informative mysterious fast-paced

4.75

This is the first book in a series (which only has two books at this time - I am hoping for more). I think it is my favorite Rita Mae Brown series. I enjoyed the characters, setting and story

missyjmatthews's review against another edition

2.0

Too many details about the area and history. It takes away from the story.

auntblh's review against another edition

3.0

I basically enjoyed this book. It might seem a little preachy to some but I didn't mind it too much. It took a while to get the story rolling but part of that is the need to set up all the back stories for the first one in new series. I will be interested to read the next in the series when it came out. Baxter and King were good but it would have been nice if they had been involved more. I think I am just more used to the Mrs. Murphy mysteries.

As a side note, I was able to see Rita Mae in person recently for the first time. Afterwards, I could hear her and picture her while I was reading this.

sbunyan's review against another edition

3.0

This is a new series for Rita Mae Brown. I hope I like it as much as I like the Mrs. Murphy series.

slferg's review against another edition

4.0

New series. Magdaleine Rogers (Mags) used to work on Wall Street. With the big crash she was wiped out and has come to her Aunt Jeep's in Nevada to stay and get back on her feet. She helps out her aunt with the work on the ranch. Mags also has a sister, a beautiful actress, who is not the best of people. She keeps trying to get hold of some of Jeep's money and has been cut out of Jeep's will. She's still trying, through Mags. Mags meets a detective in the police department who's investigating the well pumps that are being blown up. The first one is near Jeep's ranch and she is one of the first to notify the police. Jeep is having an old barn on the ranch restored and renovated, digging up the stalls to put in drainage pipes, her adopted son Enrique discovers a body. Not a new body, a very old one, from the early 1900s. He is wearing a Russian cavalry officer's ring, from an elite Russian school. Jeep and Mags are determined to find out who he is and how he came to be buried under the stalls on the ranch. Then some of the people involved with the water usage clash turn up dead.

lizlogan's review against another edition

4.0

I thought this was pretty cute. I like Miss Murphy, but find the plots too formulaic and dull. I liked the characters (but then I always like dogs), but I found it odd that they all had the same speech patterns. The only other thing that bothers me about Brown's style is her penchant to give her characters absolutely weird nicknames. There's nothing wrong with characters just having normal names.
Book Bingo Category: a mystery

plantybooklover's review against another edition

3.0

Generally speaking, when a book begins with a list of the "Cast of Characters" I'm done. I skipped that part. Initially I read about 30 pages and thought I was done, but then, maybe because I didnt have any other reading material I picked it up again and eventually finished it. So, it was "OK" there were a lot of small details that maybe make things interesting for others, but I'm not a super fan of long winded descriptions of vehicles - using brand names and such. I also commend Ms. Brown for attempting to discuss Water Rights in the state of Nevada in a book of popular fiction. It WAS boring, but, to her credit, I skimmed those sections and moved on. The book kind of wrapped up a surprise ending with the dogs killing the suspect, which...seems somewhat unrealistic- dogs usually just kind of attack . This one goes back to the Little Free Library where I got it. There were a few phrases that were sort of shockingly beautiful in the book and stuck out because they were so nice - on what it means to be an American, etc. I did appreciate the strong older woman character that the author created, she was refreshing, though I wondered about anyone at 86 riding about in an ATV, but... who knows! Also a good beach read.

lollypopzoo's review against another edition

I love most of the Sneaky Pie books (up to the most recent installations). I think that one of Brown's strengths is her ability to develop deep characters that you care about and root for throughout a series. However, this first book in her new series just starts out in a frenzy of characters, personalities, and seemingly related plots that are not yet connected in the first quarter of the book. I am putting it down after making it through the first 70 pages because I am tired of trying to keep everything straight in a story that seems far less concerned about character development than it does about several different strains of political and historical drama. I hope to pick the book up again later and find it more compelling - hopefully I am just not in the right mood or frame of mind for it right now.

bookbabebloom's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

4.25

Mystery combined with some cute pups and I’m sold 🤷🏼‍♀️

meredtihf's review

3.0

Read kind of slowly with some tangents and explanations that broke up the flow a little easier. But the mystery was good and I didn't know who the killer was until the end.