Murder at Monticello

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One of the most popular citizens of Virginia's Albemarle County is dead-and has been for mearly 170 years. But that hasn't stopped the good people of the county-and the picturesque village of Crozet-from talking pride in every aspect of Thomas Jefferson's life. When a new archaeological dig of the slave quarters of Jefferson's home, Monticello, turns up the skeleton of what appears to be a well-to-do man buried beneath a fireplace, it creates a mystery that some of Crozet's Very Best People would rather keep quiet. Looking deeply into a two-hundred-year-old crime turns out to be a dangerous enterprise. Beneath the patina of Southern gentility raw emotions are turning violent and a modern corpse soon joins the old bones at Monticello. But who committed the long-ago Monticello murder...and how is it tied to the new one? Mrs. Murphy thinks Crozet's human inhabitants are more than a little hypocritical, but she does have some insights into passions that get out of hand and secrets buried in unlikely places places. With the help of Harry's corgi, Tee Tucker, and Pewter, the corpulent cat from the nearby grocery, Mrs. Murphy is soon digging up the roots of old hatreds and unearthing the tragic consequences of human desire