Perhaps it's Brown's proximity to antiquity that most inspired her latest feat. All cats believe the world started when they came into it,' Brown said. She thinks she invented the world, you know. 'She doesn't get any credit for this one.

While Brown's cat, Sneaky Pie, normally maintains credit for much of her matriarch's work, it's all Mama Mae this time. Who is it? Why is he there? Why is he buried with a dog and a horse underneath him? Well, eventually we find out, but a couple other people have to die in the meantime.' That's really what kicks off the mystery part, this old, old murder. 'They start digging and they find the bones of a dog and of course they find the bones of a person who's been there a long, long time. 'So they pull this big piece of slate out and there's an old pocket watch,' she said. What happens next sets the tone for the rest of the mystery. 'It's truthful, that's based on a real graveyard.' Part of the covering got cracked and an end went in and dug into the earth and an equine graveyardthe oldest equine graveyard in America,' Brown teases. So at this particular hunt breakfast, a grave has been harmed by a storm.

'The book starts at a hunt, and after hunts there are what are called 'hunt breakfasts.' Even if it's four in the afternoon it's still called a hunt breakfast. I might wind up on a landing or a sidecar somewhere,' she joshed.īrown revealed next what readers could expect from the new addition to her fox-hunting series, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie. I'll be on at least three days, and I don't know what will happen because you don't know what the weather will be. 'I'll start in Chicago, and then from Chicago I go to Denver and San Francisco. 4, and I said, 'Oh please, please let me do it in December so I can see all the Christmas lights.'' 'My publisher wanted me to as soon as the book came out, which was Nov. 28, was excited about the concept of traveling and conversing to promote her new book and Amtrak's new promotion with Random House, but had one stipulation. The Virginia resident, who tuned 70 years old Nov. In a new partnership with Amtrak, Brown, who came out as a lesbian early in her career, will be the railway giant's first writer in residence. This article shared 17329 times since Wed Dec 3, 2014Īward-winning author Rita Mae Brown is taking the rails to Chicago to promote her new adventure in the literary worldLet Sleeping Dogs Lie.

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