02179cam a2200349 4500 516974706 TxAuBib 20210204120000.0 110708s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011029092 9780345511836 $25.00 0345511832 $25.00 (OCoLC)697261664 TxAuBib Brown, Rita Mae. Murder unleashed / Rita Mae Brown ; illustrated by Laura Hartman Maestro. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2012. xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Mags and Baxter ; 2 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. 20210204. Dogs Fiction. Ranch life Nevada Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Real estate business Fiction. Reno (Nev) Fiction. Mystery. Cozy mysteries. Mags and Baxter ; 2. BTCLS