OH YIPPEE!! Rita Mae Brown's books are fanstatic!

She writes 3 different series, and within a series, you should read them in order for proper character development.

1. Series co-written with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown
2. Series re Sister Jane, foxhunting mysteries. This is AMERICAN not British fox hunting; the fox is NEVER killed! But, being a murder mystery series, sometimes humans are not so lucky, lol.
3. Mrs. Murphy series.

Here is a link to her web site. You should be able to tell which of the series you have from the cover. Then just click that series to learn the order to read them.

http://www.ritamaebrown.com/content/index.asp