Brown gives her personal account of her career as an author up to her recent days as a Hollywood screenwriter, along with information on how writers live and advice on mastering the tools of the writer's trade.
Harry, her best friend Susan, and Harry's trusted animals retreat to a mountain monastery for some R and R only to find their peaceful holiday interrupted by the discovery of Susan's great Uncle Thomas' frozen body beneath the statue of the Virgin Mary.
When pieces of a dismembered corpse begin turning up around town, Harry investigates, turning her attentions to the town's newcomer, drop-dead gorgeous Blair Bainbridge.
When her new husband joins the hastily organized Confederate Army, Geneva changes her name to Jimmy, dons a uniform, and enlists to be with her beloved.
Mary Minor Haristeen postmistress of Crozet Virginia, joins forces with her willful cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her Welsh corgi, Tucker, to investigate a series of Bizarre postcards sent to the town's inhabitants that forecast impending death.
The Christmastime cheer is diminished after Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her husband find a dead body in their chosen Christmas tree at The Brothers of Love run tree farm, which turns out to the first in a series of murders that Harry and her feline sleuths are determined to solve.
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, postmistress in the tiny Virgina town of Crozet, is anxious about her upcoming twenty year class reunion, and her anxiety reaches a peak when members of the Class of 1980 start turning up dead.
